The awarded contract involves the design, development, fabrication, integration, testing, evaluation, and launch support for the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Atmospheric Composition (ACX) instrument. ACX is a new hyperspectral, UV through visible imaging spectrometer that will be used on the GeoXO series of geostationary weather satellites to measure environmental data for national air quality forecasting, hazard forecasting, and fire pollutant forecasting. The $365,806,316 Cost-Plus-Award-Fee contract was awarded to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Ball Corporation, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The contract includes the delivery of two ACX flight models with an option for an additional spare. No set-aside was used for this full and open competition.
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