NASA Honors JBS Solutions with Excellence Award
- Harriette Mathews
- Oct 31, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Huntsville, AL – JBS Solutions, Inc. picked up the Subcontractor Excellence Award from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) September 29 at the at Industry and Advocates Award Ceremony during the 34th annual meeting of the MSFC Small Business Alliance.
NASA MSFC gave the Huntsville, Alabama, engineering services firm the coveted 2022 award for its work on the Engineering Services and Science Capability Augmentation (ESSCA) contract with Jacobs Space Exploration Group (JSEG). Jacobs nominated JBS Solutions for the award.
John Cannaday, Director of the Office of Procurement, NASA MSFC, and David Brock, Small Business Specialist, Office of Small Business at NASA Headquarters, presented the award to JBS Solutions’ CEO & President Sherrie Nash and Chief Operating Officer Melanie Newton.
“We are extremely honored to have been nominated for the award by our partner, Jacobs, let alone chosen by NASA as the winner,” Nash said.
She continued, “We are proud to partner with Jacobs, and we strive daily to provide the pinnacle of customer service to our partners and to be a model of integrity in doing so. We are pleased that Jacobs and NASA have deemed that support excellent!”
JBS is an SBA 8(A) certified Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) and Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) with employees working across the USA. The company specializes in offering innovative solutions in mission operations, engineering services, logistics and transportation planning. It specializes in spaceflight planning, systems engineering and integration and mechanical design and analysis engineering.
The ESSCA contract’s scope is broad, encompassing critical science and engineering and technical support for such flagship NASA programs like the Space Launch System, International Space Station and many other space science and technology development projects.
The awards event was hosted by Marshall at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville. It featured key NASA program updates and information on policy, oversight, and optimization of procurement resources to enable collaboration between small businesses and NASA.
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