[gcmd-dev] OT: How much is it

[Michael Wördehoff]

Aha: Now we know !

8.2 Mio codelines cost $37.2 Mio.

That's roughly $4.54 per line !

(Would that include comments anyway ?)

Or $4540 for 1000 lines.

...... *sigh*


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WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a $37.2 million contract modification 
to XYZ Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide additional 
user application software development and maintenance as part of the 
Facilities Development and Operations Contract, or FDOC. 

Under the contract, XYZ provides support for the hardware, 
software, data and displays used to train for and execute human 
spaceflight missions. The contract provides consolidated systems 
services development and operations support within the Mission 
Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and backup 
control centers for the Space Shuttle, International Space Station 
and Constellation programs. 

This modification is associated with the recently developed Next 
Generation Space Station Training Facility Part-Task Trainer and will 
provide for the support of 8.2 million lines of additional user 
application software code, and maintenance and operations for the 
simulators.