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  • ULA Sets Nov. 19 Launch for NOAA GOES-R Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Sets Nov. 19 Launch for NOAA GOES-R Satellite

    The launch of the first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites has been rescheduled from Nov. 16 to Nov. 19, pending clearance from the Eastern Range. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from space launch complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […] More

  • ULA Rocket to Send NASA-NOAA Weather Satellite Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Rocket to Send NASA-NOAA Weather Satellite Into Orbit

    United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, is scheduled to launch a weather monitoring satellite Nov. 19 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R will lift atop ULA’s  Atlas V 541 configuration rocket from the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, ULA said Sunday. […] More

  • CSRA Unveils New HPC Service Model to Bolster Info Processing Speeds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Unveils New HPC Service Model to Bolster Info Processing Speeds

    CSRA will integrate information technology systems with high-performance computing services to help government agencies process information at a faster pace in a push to support decision-making speeds in areas such as climate change, scientific research and space exploration. The company said Wednesday the new HPC service model will work to support HPC customer requirements within a common […] More

  • NASA Reschedules NOAA GOES-R Satellite Launch to Nov. 16 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Reschedules NOAA GOES-R Satellite Launch to Nov. 16

    NASA has moved from Nov. 4 to Nov. 16 the launch of the first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites. The space agency said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will be called GOES-16 once it reaches the geostationary orbit and will work to capture images of weather patterns […] More

  • NOAA-NASA Team’s Ball Aerospace-Built Environmental Satellite Marks 5 Years in Orbit; Rob Strain Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA-NASA Team’s Ball Aerospace-Built Environmental Satellite Marks 5 Years in Orbit; Rob Strain Comments

    A satellite that Ball Aerospace built for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marked five years in orbit on Oct. 28. Ball Aerospace partnered with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to design and develop the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite that works to provide three-dimensional humidity and temperature data to the Defense Department […] More

  • Curt Kolcun: Microsoft Seeks to Facilitate Govt Cloud Adoption Through New Services, Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curt Kolcun: Microsoft Seeks to Facilitate Govt Cloud Adoption Through New Services, Programs

    Microsoft has introduced new programs and services that seek to help government agencies adopt cloud platforms. Curt Kolcun, vice president of the U.S. public sector at Microsoft, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the company has made the Azure Government Marketplace and the Operations Management Suite portal available to Azure Government cloud users. The OMS portal works […] More

  • Esri Designated Ambassador of NOAA, NWS Weather Preparedness Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Designated Ambassador of NOAA, NWS Weather Preparedness Program

    Esri will participate in a program that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service aim to prepare U.S. citizens and bolster infrastructure against extreme weather threats. Esri said Tuesday the Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador program collaborates with various organizations in an effort to establish preparedness for scenarios during extreme weather. “Our goal is to work with WRN Ambassadors in a whole community […] More

  • Harris Completes 4th Baseline Imaging Tool for NOAA GOES-U Weather Satellite; Eric Webster Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Completes 4th Baseline Imaging Tool for NOAA GOES-U Weather Satellite; Eric Webster Comments

    Harris Corp. will hand over the fourth Advanced Baseline Imager for integration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite after the company completed a pre-ship assessment of ABI with NASA and NOAA. Harris said Tuesday the ABI instrument is scheduled to fly aboard the GOES-U spacecraft in 2024 and will work to […] More

  • Sevatec Wins Recompete for NOAA Cybersecurity Center Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec Wins Recompete for NOAA Cybersecurity Center Support

    Sevatec has won a potential two-year, $19 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide support services to NOAA’s Cyber Security Center. The technology services firm said Tuesday the recompeted contract covers support for NCSC’s security operations facility as well as its computer incident response, system administration support and enterprise security solutions teams. Sevatec will also provide cybersecurity monitoring and […] More

  • GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA's Commercial Weather Data Pilot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global worth $695,000 and $370,000, respectively, to provide data support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot project. NOAA said GeoOptics and Spire Global will supply space-based global navigation satellite system radio occultation data in efforts to demonstrate the quality and potential value of commercial data to the agency’s weather forecasts and warnings. […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes Initial Design Review for 3 NOAA Weather Satellites; Steve Krein Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes Initial Design Review for 3 NOAA Weather Satellites; Steve Krein Comments

    Orbital ATK has completed the spacecraft preliminary design review for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s three Joint Polar Satellite Systems. The company collaborated with representatives from NOAA and NASA to subject JPSS-2, JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 to the four-day PDR that kicked off Aug. 29 at Orbital ATK’s Gilbert, Arizona-based facility, Orbital ATK said Monday. The […] More

  • Dan Batrack: Tetra Tech to Help NOAA Manage Coastal Resources With Geospatial Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Batrack: Tetra Tech to Help NOAA Manage Coastal Resources With Geospatial Tech

    Tetra Tech has been awarded a spot on a $49 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technical geospatial services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s coastal management program. The company said Tuesday it will collect, analyze and process geospatial data with the use of airborne and bathymetric lidar, satellite imagery and video and acoustic systems in an […] More