Definitive Contract 80GSFC26C0024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $1.5 million definitive contract to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. for a Phase A study of a PHOtospheric Magnetograph Imager (PHOMI) instrument for the Space Weather Geostationary (SWGEO) program on June 1, 2026. The originating solicitation, posted as a pre-solicitation on May 7, 2025, sought contract support to develop an instrument capable of producing Line of Sight measurements of the photospheric magnetic field with...

<p>Goddard Space Center awarded a $1.5 million definitive contract to Southwest Research Institute for a Space Weather Geostationary Photospheric Magnetograph Imager Phase A study on June 1, 2026. The contract is firm fixed price with no set-aside applied.</p> <p>Place of performance is San Antonio, TX. Performance concludes August 31, 2027.</p>

This federal contract award, valued at $919,904.00, was granted to Lockheed Martin Corporation by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract is for research aimed at improving the localization of solar wind source regions in near-Earth space by enhancing full-surface (synoptic) magnetic maps. The research will incorporate measurements from the Hinode Spectro-Polarimeter (SP) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) to better...

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...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $371.5 million definitive contract to Lockheed Martin Corp for implementation of the Geostationary Extended Observations (GEOXO) Lightning Mapper (LMX) instrument on October 10, 2024. The LMX instrument is a single spectral channel instrument designed to measure the location and intensity of optical transients produced by lightning for NASA GSFC. Place of performance is Roxborough, CO. The contract carries a cost-plus-award-fee...

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 cost-plus-award-fee definitive contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, to Lockheed Martin Corporation, a major defense and aerospace contractor, for the development of a Solar X-Ray Imager Instrument. The contract has a ceiling value of $105,608,031.00 and a completion date of December 31, 2021. It was initially awarded on June 15, 1997, and the place of performance is Palo Alto, California. The contract does not have a...

This is a $455,530.77 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lockheed Martin Corporation, a leading global security and aerospace company, to develop a magnetofrictional (MF) model of the solar corona's magnetic field. The model will utilize evolving photospheric magnetic field observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory to predict coronal mass ejections and solar flares, improving space weather forecasting capabilities. The...

This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (NWRA) to investigate and understand the lifecycle of the solar magnetic field. The grant, valued at $145,785.00, supports the use of data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument to model the propagation of solar eruptions and their effects on Earth and space-based assets. The grant aims to better...

NASA's Goddard Space Center awarded a $16.9 million definitive contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation for Habitable Worlds Observatory system technology demonstrations and mission architecture studies on May 13, 2026, with an ultimate completion date of May 12, 2029. The contract carries no set-aside and uses firm fixed-price pricing. Work is performed in Palo Alto, California. The originating solicitation calls for technology demonstrations and mission architecture studies supporting the...