was scheduled to be released in 2016. Lockheed Martin is currently the prime contractor for the National Science Foundation's United States Antarctic Program. The contract award was announced via a NSF press release on 28 December 2011 after a bid solicitation process of almost four years. Support operations began on 1 April 2012. The original contract synopsis indicated that the government was contemplating a contract period of years. See also Ice pier List of Antarctic expeditions McMurdo Sound McMurdo Station Military activity in the Antarctic Mount Lisicky Ross Sea The Antarctic Sun, online newspaper of the U.S. Antarctic Program United States Antarctic Program Winter Quarters Bay References Bibliography Belanger, Dian Olson. Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2006. Dufek, George J. Operation Deep Freeze. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1957. Ellery D. Wallwork, Kathryn A. Wilcoxson. Operation Deep Freeze: 50 Years of US Air Force Airlift in Antarctica 1956–2006. Scott Air Force Base: Office of History, Air Mobility Command, 2006. United States. Antarctic Highlights: Operation Deep Freeze. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1969. External links Flight to the South Pole: Operation Deep Freeze USAF Film Operation Deep Freeze I – United States Navy Photographic Report – MN 8500 (1957) Thirteenth Air Force Operation Deep Freeze web site at Pacific Air Forces Operation Deep Freeze Deployment Guide history.navy.mil: Operation Deep Freeze I Operation Deep Freeze, The New Zealand Story Operation Deep Freeze Color Transparencies at Dartmouth College Library 1955 in the United States 1955 in Antarctica 1956 in Antarctica Antarctic expeditions United States and the Antarctic Expeditions from the United States History of the Ross Dependency