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NOAA awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) the Geostationary Ground Sustainment Services contract valued at up to $275,000,000.
NOAA awarded L3Harris Technologies a Geostationary Ground Sustainment Services contract valued at up to $275,000,000.
The GGSS contract is a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide sustainment services for the ground system that supports NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R Series (GOES-R).
NOAA awarded the Geostationary Ground Sustainment Services (GGSS) contract to L3Harris Technologies Inc. of Palm Bay, Florida.
NASA builds and launches GOES-R Series satellites for NOAA.
The GOES-R ground system receives data from GOES-R Series spacecraft and generates real-time data products that support NOAA’s National Weather Service and the nation’s weather enterprise.
Work under the GGSS contract will be performed at NOAA facilities in Suitland, Maryland; College Park, Maryland; Wallops Island, Virginia; and Fairmont, West Virginia; and at the L3Harris facility in Melbourne, Florida.
Under the contract announced 2023-05-11, L3Harris Technologies will handle communications with NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R Series, data processing, and information distribution.
In 2010 L3Harris Technologies won a $130,000,000 NOAA contract to develop the GOES-R ground segment antenna.
L3Harris Technologies has been the prime contractor and systems integrator for the GOES-R ground segment since 2009 when the company won a 10-year, $736,000,000 NOAA contract.
In 2019 NOAA awarded L3Harris Technologies a $284,000,000 contract to modernize the GOES-R ground infrastructure.
The latest NOAA Geostationary Ground Sustainment Services contract runs through 2028-05-10 and work under the contract will be carried out through a series of task orders.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a contract to L3Harris Technologies to continue providing ground services for the current generation of geostationary weather satellites.
Northrop Grumman won a $13,300,000 contract in December to refurbish the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder engineering development unit for NOAA’s QuickSounder program.
NOAA’s 2024 budget proposal seeks $342,400,000 in fiscal year 2024 for the Polar Weather Satellites program, which includes JPSS.
Through a program called NEON Series One, NOAA will launch new microwave and infrared sounders on common spacecraft buses.
NOAA and NASA are selecting a company to integrate the ATMS engineering development unit with a commercial bus, fly it on a small launch vehicle, and operate it for three years with two single-year contract extension options.
NOAA’s next-generation microwave sounder, the Sounder for Microwave-Based Applications, is expected to launch around 2030.
The Polar Weather Satellites program received $183,500,000 in 2023 after NOAA had requested $350,200,000.
NOAA plans to launch an Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder engineering development unit refurbished by Northrop Grumman on a commercial satellite bus for QuickSounder.