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Procurement Countdown: International Space Station Contract Strategy

Overview The International Space Station (ISS) Procurement Office has been working for a year developing a contract strategy to put in place by Fiscal Year 2004. The strategy reflects the ISS program's progression from a development program into an operations program. The strategy takes functions from 26 plus contracts in the ISS Procurement Office and logically groups the work into six new contracts.

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Publisher	NASA	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2002
Format	White Papers
Topics	Procurement and Sourcing

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Tags:
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Channel:
Desktops
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desktop,
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project entropia

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Channel:
WebWatch
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nasa,
google earth,
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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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