It has awarded a software engineering support contract at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to a Pasadena, Calif., company, NASA has said.

Columbus Technologies and Services Inc. will use the $250 million, five-year contract to acquire on and off-site support for Goddard's software engineering division, Space agency officials further said.

NASA also revealed, "The work will include, but is not limited to, the design, development, test and deployment of software; data and information systems for aerospace missions within the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate." (With Inputs from Agencies)