FDOC employee, Roy Hamilton, was recently presented with NASA’s Silver Snoopy award. The Silver Snoopy is one of NASA’s most prestigious awards and is presented to less than one percent of the NASA workforce annually. The Silver Snoopy is presented to individuals for outstanding contributions to mission safety and success. Roy was recognized for outstanding software support during the successful investigation and resolution of reliability problems with the aging Digital Voice Intercommunication Subsystem DVIS. Roy played a key role during the upgrades that restored confidence that DVIS will be able to effectively support mission operations until its replacement is certified.

We currently have 2 bids in for projects. The first is with the National Science Foundation to provide support for the Antarctic Operations. Yes, we would be sending folks to the South Pole. Award is scheduled for summer 2010 with a contract start in late 2010.

The second project is with NASA and it is to provide support to Wallops Island. We previously did this support under the old CSOC contract. The contract is scheduled to be awarded summer 2010, pending the NASA budget.

Congratulations to Roland Bland (center) for winning the safety challenge on “Hands Free Driving”. Roland received his hand charging LED flash light for having his name pulled from the submissions turned into ESH by those who answered the questions on hands free driving. The flash light was presented to Roland by his Section Mgr. Jeff Skrocki (right) and Department Mgr. Viet Truong-Cao (left).