This $6.49 million firm fixed price contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation to conduct a Phase A study for the GEO-XO Lightning Mapper (LMX) instrument. The work involves defining requirements, assessing technologies, and developing plans to mature critical technologies to support the planned 2032 launch of the instrument onboard NOAA's first Geostationary Earth Orbit Extended Observations (GEO-XO) satellite. Two...
This is a $2,279,447,443 cost-plus-award-fee contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation for the design, build, and delivery of 3 Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) spacecraft. The contract has no set-aside designation. Key subcontractors include Ingenion, LLC, Summit Technologies & Solutions Inc., Spirit America Corp, Isys Incorporated, and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation. This contract supports NOAA's GeoXO...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $5.4 million firm fixed price definitive contract to Maxar Space LLC, a division of Maxar Technologies Inc., for a GEOXO Space Craft Phase A Study. The contract will run from August 9, 2022 through June 8, 2023 and will be performed in East Palo Alto, California. Maxar Space LLC will provide Phase A study services for a GEOXO space craft program under the major program code GEOXO to NOAA through this definitive contract.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation Payload And Ground Systems Division was awarded a $6.5 million firm fixed price contract by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct a Phase A study for the GEO-XO Lightning Mapper (LMX) instrument. The 20-month contract will fund requirements development and technology maturation plans to support the planned 2032 launch of the LMX onboard the first NOAA GEO-XO satellite. Leonardo - Societa' Per Azioni...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a firm fixed price contract valued at $771,752 to Lockheed Martin Corporation to conduct a Flexible Hosted Imager Study. This contract was awarded under the Broad Agency Announcement for Low Earth Orbit Sounding Satellite and Geostationary Orbit Concept Exploration, which sought proposals for instrument concepts and integrated mission concepts to support regional real-time weather data collection, space weather data collection from...
This is a $371,461,622.00 Cost Plus Award Fee contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation for the implementation of the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Lightning Mapper (LMX) instrument. The LMX instrument is a single spectral channel instrument used to measure the location and intensity of optical transients produced by lightning. The contract has a 25-year period of performance, including 10 years of on-orbit...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation was awarded a definitive contract valued at $9.13 million by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct a Phase A study for the Geostationary and Extended Orbits Sounder instrument. The study responds to Solicitation No. 80GSFC21R0027 issued by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center seeking proposals for a definition phase study of an infrared sounder to fly on NOAA's planned GEO-XO series of geostationary weather satellites, with the...
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. was awarded an $8.99 million firm fixed-price contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct a Phase A study for the Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Sounder (GXS) instrument. The 20-month study is being conducted for NOAA's planned GEO-XO series of geostationary weather satellites, with the first launch scheduled for 2032. Key subcontractors include Teledyne Digital Imaging US, Inc. for GXS support and the University of...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. was awarded a definitive contract valued at approximately $5.2 million by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct an Ocean Color Geostationary XO (GeoXO) Phase A study. The 20-month firm fixed price contract will support requirements development and design concepts for an Ocean Color Observations instrument to fly aboard NOAA's planned GeoXO series of geostationary satellites, with the first launch...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $5 million firm fixed price contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct a 20-month Phase A study for the GeoXO Atmospheric Composition (ACX) instrument. The study is in support of NOAA's GeoXO program, which aims to provide geostationary observations through a series of satellites beginning with the first launch in 2035. Under the contract, Ball Aerospace will perform instrument design, analysis,...