Leidos is an essential part of the NASA team to ensure mission success. We provide engineering development, mission operations and sustaining support of Flight Crew Equipment that is used to support the Astronauts’ livelihood in space and the overall cargo mission integration function to safely deliver hardware, equipment and supplies to launch sites worldwide for launch to orbit. Many of the items pictured complement payloads, research, basic living, and operations on orbit.
Critical lift of small satellite
Fitting it all in-Getting all cargo safely packed, on time, in the right order
Manage cargo end-to-end schedule milestones
Develop precise analytical stowage layouts for assessing vehicle manifest and incorporating unique cargo requirements: orientation, packaging, and foam containment
Capture intricate inspection, imagery, and other metadata for items to show damage and check compliance with customer requirements
Facilitate safe delivery and efficient on-orbit operations (unique packing configurations to accommodate grouping, labeling, and hardware protection)
Integrate hardware into packaging, Cargo Transfer Bags (CTB), lockers, or other containment compliant with hardware and environmental requirements
How we enable tomorrow
Proactively perform analytical assessment of cargo to available volume, preliminary packing, and mass predictions, using our automated IT tools to verify available volume for manifested cargo
Perform analytical Center of Gravity (CG) assessments, using Leidos IT tools, to help provide early assessments/projections to vehicle providers
What we do today
SuperBox and 4D crate
Provide shipping and logistics expertise to meet stringent environmental requirements and government regulations for ground handling, transportation, and launch to orbit—performing 1,500 shipments annually for the ISS and Exploration programs
Devise packing solutions to address the unique needs of each shipped item in terms of temperature, humidity/condensation, orientation, shock, and so on
Provide end-to-end turn-key shipping solutions: hazard assessments, freight forwarder coordination, dangerous goods declarations, and placarding for ground, air, and sea shipments
Provide TSA/Airlines trusted hand-carry couriers for domestic and international delivery of temperature and time-critical items
How we enable tomorrow
Chartered transport of hardware
Packaging the unique
Trained in Department of Transportation (DOT), FAA, and IATA transportation of hardware, to assist in special DOT Special Permitting
Established relationships with foreign Customs (Japan, Russia, the Hague, and Europe) with expertise in ANE filings and development of International Proformas
Established and proven packaging techniques to meet unique cargo, science, or payload temperature requirement
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