The famous “Mission Control Center” (MCC) at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas is the heart of human space flight. Cimarron is proud to have been supporting NASA and our country’s space explorers in the MCC since 1988, and continues today.
The MCC is an integrated ground facility that provides spacecraft command and control capabilities critical to the US Space Initiative. The
MCC architecture consists of the Mission Control Center (MCC), the Consolidated Communications Facility (CCF), the Remote Extension in Moscow (REM) and the
JSC Emergency Operations Center (EOC). 
The
REM acts as the backup control center for the MCC. The CCF provides all the ground-to-air/space data and voice communications features of the MCC. The EOC
provides site-wide emergency operations capability.
Cimarron got its start in the MCC working with IBM on a total system upgrade in 1988.
Currently, Cimarron is a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin under the Mission Support Operations Contract (MSOC). This relationship started in 1999 under the Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC), and then transitioned to MSOC in 2004.
Cimarron is a major teammate providing support for Maintenance, Operations and Development of the JSC MCC infrastructure and baseline systems including Command, Control and the Integrated Planning System (MCC/IPS).
Cimarron provides numerous professionals on this contract including Flight Controllers; Hardware Maintenance Engineers; Hardware Maintenance Technicians; Logisticians; Systems and Software Engineers for sustaining engineering of elements of the overall system. We work with other mission planning groups and principal investigators to assure continuous end-to-end mission planning and execution of the mission plan.
On CSOC we also performed in Database and Configuration Management at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the Integrated Operations Architecture (IOA) System Engineering, an advanced distributed control center concept. This concept was for standardization of NASA’s control centers and to reduce the cost of ground operations.
Operating System Environment: Unix/AIX/Ultrix/Linux, SunOS, MVS (legacy)
Database Environment: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, custom
Networking Environment: FDDI, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, Gigabyte Ethernet
Programming Environment: C, C++, X Windows, Object-Oriented, Ada, Assembler Hardware Environment: DEC, Sun, Rational, IBM RISC, IBM ESA, custom
Communications: Frame-relay, microwave, fiber-optic, TDRSS (satellite)
