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  • Ball Aerospace Brings NOAA Weather Satellite to Vanderberg AFB Launch Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Brings NOAA Weather Satellite to Vanderberg AFB Launch Site

    Ball Aerospace has transported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s polar orbiting weather satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of the platform’s scheduled launch on Nov. 10. The company said Tuesday it delivered the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 following a pre-ship review at Ball’s Boulder, Colorado-based manufacturing facility. JPSS-1 is part of the JPSS series of […] More

  • Lockheed Begins Colorado Satellite Manufacturing Hub Construction; Rick Ambrose Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Begins Colorado Satellite Manufacturing Hub Construction; Rick Ambrose Comments

    Lockheed Martin has kicked off a $350 million project to build a satellite production facility at the company’s Waterton Canyon campus in Colorado. The Gateway Center is scheduled for completion in 2020 and will accommodate Lockheed’s growing workforce and future projects in Colorado, the company said Wednesday. Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed’s space systems business, […] More

  • NOAA Plans Follow-On Contract for HPC System Integration Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Plans Follow-On Contract for HPC System Integration Services

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has posted a draft request for proposals on a follow-on contract for systems integration services to NOAA’s Research and Development High Performance Computing and Communications infrastructure. NOAA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice it aims to issue a final RFP in October and hold an Industry Day in Silver Spring, Maryland in […] More

  • ECS to Extend Program Support for NOAA Under $68M BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS to Extend Program Support for NOAA Under $68M BPA

    ECS Federal has secured a $68.4 million blanket purchase agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide a range of services for the office of marine and aviation operations. The BPA adds aircraft and unmanned systems services to ECS’ area of support, which previously included mostly maritime-related activities, the company said Friday. ECS added […] More

  • NOAA Issues Web-Based Space Situational Awareness Service RFQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Issues Web-Based Space Situational Awareness Service RFQ

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a request for quotation for a potential one-year contract to provide web-based space situational awareness products and services to facilitate conjunction analysis related to space debris and satellites in low-Earth orbit. NOAA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it will award a small business set-aside contract […] More

  • MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to Provide NOAA Satellite Data Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to Provide NOAA Satellite Data Access

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a potential four-year contract to provide data from the company’s synthetic aperture radar satellite to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA will use data collected by the RADARSAT-2 satellite to aid snow and ice forecasting monitoring activities, MDA said Wednesday. RADARSAT-2 is built to gather all-weather imagery and surveillance information in near-real time for use in the agriculture, aviation, defense, […] More

  • Vencore Reports $130M in Systems Engineering, Integration Contract Awards; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Reports $130M in Systems Engineering, Integration Contract Awards; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore has secured multiple contracts worth more than $130 million combined during the first quarter of 2017 to provide systems engineering and integration services to U.S. government clients. The company said Friday it will carry out work under the contracts over a performance period of five years. Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore and an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s […] More

  • Engility Eyes NASA Advanced Computing Services Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Eyes NASA Advanced Computing Services Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility plans to leverage its high performance computing experience in the company’s pursuit of NASA‘s Advanced Computing Services contract. The company said Thursday its HPC team includes computational and supercomputing scientists who have previously helped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration design and procure research and development HPC systems. NASA plans to issue a request for proposals on the Advanced Computing Services program that […] More

  • Raytheon Completes Update to JPSS Common Ground System's Data Processing Component - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Completes Update to JPSS Common Ground System’s Data Processing Component

    Raytheon has updated the data transport and processing component of the Joint Polar Satellite System‘s common ground system. The company said Wednesday the update is intended to optimize data processing and dissemination as well as system availability and cybersecurity of CGS ahead of the upcoming JPSS-1 launch and future satellite missions. JPSS satellites work to provide weather and environmental data to […] More

  • Earth Networks to Provide Lightning Data Support for NOAA's National Weather Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Earth Networks to Provide Lightning Data Support for NOAA’s National Weather Service

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Earth Networks a five-year, $2.5 million contract to provide the National Weather Service access to a lightning data. NWS will use the company’s Total Lightning Network in efforts to identify weather conditions, increase weather warning lead times and help forecasters gain situational awareness, Earth Networks said Thursday. The network is designed to monitor in-cloud lightning activity […] More

  • Lockheed-Built GOES-16 Satellite Instruments Record Continuous Lightning, Solar Storm Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built GOES-16 Satellite Instruments Record Continuous Lightning, Solar Storm Data

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has unveiled the first images from two Lockheed Martin-built space instruments onboard a weather monitoring satellite that was launched in November last year. Lockheed said Monday the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and Solar Ultraviolet Imager on NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 work to record continuous lightning data and compile complete views of the sun, respectively. Jeff Vanden […] More

  • NASA Taps Ball Aerospace for Suomi NPP Satellite Engineering Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Ball Aerospace for Suomi NPP Satellite Engineering Support Contract

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has received a potential five-year, $9.5 million contract from NASA to continue to provide sustaining engineering support services for the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Sustainability satellite. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a minimum task ordering value of $50,000 and covers engineering services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s office of […] More