NASA Locks In Long-Term Support for Ames Research Center — Silicon Valley's Aerospace Anchor Stays Operational

NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley just secured its operational future. The agency has awarded Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC the Ames Facilities Support Services II contract, tasking the firm with comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair across one of America's most storied aerospace research campuses. The contract ensures continuity for a center that has been shaping aerospace science since 1939. Ames is not a typical government facility. It houses wind tunnels, supercomputing infrastructure, astrobiology labs, and simulation systems that serve both NASA missions and a broader community of tenant partners through the NASA Research Park. Keeping those systems running requires specialized expertise — the kind of sustained institutional knowledge that a dedicated facilities contract is designed to protect. Chugach Intelligence Solutions, a subsidiary of the Chugach Alaska Corporation — an Alaska Native Corporation — brings both federal contracting experience and a mission-aligned ownership structure to the work. The award reflects NASA's continued investment in the human and physical infrastructure that makes cutting-edge research possible, not just the research itself. Facilities contracts rarely make headlines, but they are the quiet backbone of every scientific breakthrough. When a researcher runs a hypersonic aerodynamics simulation at Ames or an astrobiologist analyzes Mars-analog samples, someone made sure the lights stayed on, the systems were calibrated, and the building didn't leak. That someone now has a contract. Science runs on this.