Steve Jurczyk: Contracting system helps NASA adopt new technologies

NASA is using a special contracting system known as non-reimbursable space act agreements to obtain the latest in space technologies.

NASA is preparing for the next round of space technologies, everything from more reliable circuit boards to space propulsion systems. It’s using a special contracting system known as non-reimbursable space act agreements. Steve Jurczyk, NASA’s associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin in studio.

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