Contract Administration Files, 1966 - 1971

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Contract Administration Files, 1966 - 1971

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This series contains correspondence, memorandums and contract modifications related to several Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) contracts. A typical file contains contractor proposals, basic contracts, supplemental agreements, JPL procurement requisitions and justifications, contract modifications and the contractor's final report. Contracts vary in scope from the JPL food service contract with Madison United Food Management Services, Inc. (1966-1969) to the contract with Brigham Young University professor Douglas E. Jones to analyze data from the Mariner II, IV and V missions to Mars and Venus (1969-1970). Other contracts of interest include contracts with Motorola, Inc., International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT), and TRW Inc., to build communication and optical guidance systems for the Mariner Mars mission and other unmanned spacecraft missions (1966-1971). Also of interest, a contract with Litton Systems, Inc., to gather solar cell calibration data (1969-1970).

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California. The JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Scien...