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Home Civilian Bastion Secures $400M NASA Safety, Mission Assurance Services II Contract
Author: Kristen Smith || Date Published: September 16, 2025
NASA has awarded Bastion Technologies a potential $400 million contract to provide safety and mission assurance services for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center and other facilities.
The Safety and Mission Assurance II contract is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award with a four-year base period and options that could extend work through March 2034, NASA said Monday. A phase-in period begins immediately.
Scope of Work
Bastion will deliver support across multiple technical and institutional assurance areas, including system safety, reliability, maintainability, software assurance, quality engineering, independent assessment, institutional safety and pressure systems. The work will aid spaceflight and science missions, research and development projects, hardware fabrication and testing, and other activities.
Primary work sites include Marshall, the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Services will also extend to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, contractor facilities and other NASA locations supported by Marshall’s Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate.
Contract Background
NASA issued a draft request for proposals for SMAS II in September 2024, outlining an estimated ceiling of $488 million over eight years. The presolicitation notice identified the contract as a small business set-aside and called for feedback from industry ahead of the final RFP release. The agency also held a virtual industry day to brief potential bidders on requirements, which included system safety, software assurance, quality engineering, industrial safety and pressure systems.
The single-award IDIQ was scheduled to be competed and awarded in September, with Bastion emerging as the winning small business.