FAIRMONT, W.Va. – NASA has awarded a multi-million dollar service and support contract to a Fairmont-based technology company. TMC Technologies of West Virginia will provide advanced systems and software engineering services to Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility.
TMC President and Chief Executive Officer Wade Linger said the new contract valued at $24 million will continue the firm’s decade-long relationship with NASA’s IV&V Program.
“We’re honored NASA remains confident in our leading-edge technology offerings,” Linger said. “We hope to expand our team who are providing specialized systems and software engineering services in support of the Software Assurance Tools and John McBride Software Testing and Research groups within the NASA IV&V Program.”
The company will support Jon McBride Software Testing and Research (JSTAR) within the NASA IV&V Program, named after West Virginia-born and retired astronaut Jon McBride. Those programs are the Simulation-to-Flight-1 SmallSat, also known as West Virginia’s First Spacecraft, the NASA Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) mission directorate to put humans in space, James Webb Space Telescope, and the NASA SET2 BPA would include expanded support for the NASA Artemis manned missions to the Moon.
Vice President Randy Hefner oversees all NASA-related activity for TMC.
“Our team is at the cutting-edge developing NASA’s first integrated simulation software bringing together three critical components of the NASA Artemis program,” Hefner said, referring to the TMC-led team developing the Advanced Risk Reduction Integrated Software Test & Operations Tri-Program Lightweight Environment (ARRISTOTLE) system.
The systems ARRISTOTLE joins the NASA Space Launch System simulator, the simulator for NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and the NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Ground Launch Software simulator.
TMC President and Chief Executive Officer Wade Linger will be a guest on MetroNews Talkline Thursday morning at 11:30.