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  • Harris-Built Imager Onboard Japanese Weather Satellite Captures First Images - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris-Built Imager Onboard Japanese Weather Satellite Captures First Images

    Japan’s meteorological agency has unveiled a detailed picture of clouds taken by a Harris-developed imager technology onboard the country’s newest weather satellite over Japan and the Pacific Ocean. Harris said Monday it designed the Advanced Himawari Imager to increase the accuracy, speed and accuracy of information the Mitsubishi Electric-built Himawari-9 satellite delivers to Japanese meteorologists with the aid of the satellite’s 11 additional spectral bands […] More

  • Orbital ATK Taps EaglePicher to Develop NOAA JPSS Satellite Battery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Taps EaglePicher to Develop NOAA JPSS Satellite Battery

    Orbital ATK has chosen EaglePicher Technologies to design and manufacture a battery system for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System-2. EaglePicher said Thursday it will incorporate GS Yuasa Lithium Power‘s Gen III LSE134 lithium-ion cells into the JPSS-2 battery system. Orbital ATK received a $253 million delivery order from NASA in March 2015 to build up to three […] More

  • Harris-Built GOES-16 Satellite Camera Captures Image of Earth's Full Western Hemisphere - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris-Built GOES-16 Satellite Camera Captures Image of Earth’s Full Western Hemisphere

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has unveiled the first image taken by a Harris-built high-resolution digital camera onboard a weather monitoring satellite. Harris said Monday its Advanced Baseline Imager took a picture of Earth’s full western hemisphere with detailed cloud and water features from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16. NASA and NOAA launched the Lockheed Martin-built GOES-16R satellite atop a […] More

  • SGT Subcontracts Earth Networks to Support NOAA Weather Data Acquisition Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SGT Subcontracts Earth Networks to Support NOAA Weather Data Acquisition Program

    SGT has awarded Earth Networks a subcontract to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s efforts to gather meteorological observational data from non-federal observing networks. NOAA awarded SGT a potential three-year, $45 million contract earlier this month to supply meteorological observational data to the agency and its National Weather Service organization. Earth Networks said Thursday the observations made […] More

  • GAMA-1 Holds Spot on Potential $2.5B NOAA IT Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GAMA-1 Holds Spot on Potential $2.5B NOAA IT Contract Vehicle

    GAMA-1 Technologies has been awarded a prime position on a potential a $2.5 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers information technology support services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s strategic IT planning and management effort. GAMA-1 said Tuesday task orders under the NOAALink Small Business contract are  categorized into customer care, infrastructure management, business management, information security and risk management. […] More

  • SGT to Provide NOAA Meteorological Observational Data; Curtis Marshall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SGT to Provide NOAA Meteorological Observational Data; Curtis Marshall Comments

    SGT has been awarded a three-year, $45 million contract to supply meteorological observational data from non-federal observing networks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA plans to use the observation data to support meteorological, hydrologic and related environmental observing systems that are designed to facilitate local-scale weather event prediction, SGT said Monday. SGT will collaborate with Earth […] More

  • Lockheed to Start Environmental, Mechanical Tests on NOAA GOES-S Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Start Environmental, Mechanical Tests on NOAA GOES-S Weather Satellite

    Lockheed Martin will begin environmental and mechanical tests on a satellite that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use to support U.S. weather observation operations. Lockheed said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – S weather satellite is the second of four GOES-R series geostationary weather satellites and will undergo tests that simulate launch and […] More

  • NOAA Taps McMurdo for Search & Rescue Ground Stations; Mark Cianciolo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Taps McMurdo for Search & Rescue Ground Stations; Mark Cianciolo Comments

    McMurdo has received a potential five-year, $6.67 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide fourth generation search-and-rescue ground stations for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite program. The company said Monday it will build Low Earth Orbit/Medium Earth Orbit local user terminals to help search-and-rescue teams locate distressed individuals in expanded geographic regions such as the […] More

  • Boeing’s Matthew Jones, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Susan Nelson Join CompTIA Space Enterprise Council - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Matthew Jones, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Susan Nelson Join CompTIA Space Enterprise Council

    CompTIA has appointed Matthew Jones, director of C4ISR and advanced technology and government operations at Boeing, as chair of the technology industry association’s space enterprise council. Susan Nelson, director of government affairs and Washington operations at Aerojet Rocketdyne, will serve as vice chair of SEC, CompTIA said Thursday. “Under Matt and Susan’s guidance, we expect the […] More

  • NOAA, NASA Launch Lockheed-built GOES-R Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA, NASA Launch Lockheed-built GOES-R Weather Satellite

    The first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites launched Saturday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6:42 p.m. Eastern time. NOAA said Saturday the Lockheed Martin-built Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will be called GOES-16 once it reaches the orbit within two weeks and will work to provide […] More

  • Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Continue Support for NOAA Satellite Operations Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Continue Support for NOAA Satellite Operations Facility

    ASRC Federal has secured a potential five-year, $35 million contract from the national environmental satellite, data and information service division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for systems engineering support to NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Alaska. The company said Thursday its federal technical services subsidiary will perform the work under the NOAA Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station […] More

  • LAC Federal to Provide Cataloging Support Services to the Smithsonian Libraries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LAC Federal to Provide Cataloging Support Services to the Smithsonian Libraries

    LAC Federal has secured a five-year contract to provide cataloging and cataloging support services to the Smithsonian Libraries that include maintenance work on bibliographic records within online systems. The company said Monday it will offer original and copy cataloging of books, CDs, microfilm, electronic journals, magazines and other printed material on various western European and Asian languages. […] More