Definitive Contract FA880313C0009

This is a federal contract awarded by the U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center, a defense agency, to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. for the "Weather System Follow-On - Microwave - System Design of Satellite with Microwave Radiometer and Sensor" project. The $30,975,795 cost-plus-incentive contract has a completion date of November 9, 2027 and does not have any set-aside designation. The contract involves the design and development of a satellite system with microwave...

This federal contract award to Geooptics, Inc., a veteran-owned small business located in Pasadena, California, was made by the Air Force for a CubeSat system to support global navigation satellite system radio occultation and ocean reflections under the Commercial Weather Data Pilot program. The firm-fixed-price contract has a ceiling value of $749,672 and a completion date of December 31, 2022. The original solicitation sought innovative technical solutions to improve global weather monitoring...

This $849,897 firm fixed price contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to Leidos Inc., operating as Saic, to conduct the Geo Earth Multispectral Mapper terrestrial weather imaging study. The broad agency announcement solicited proposals for instrument concepts and integrated mission concepts to support regional real-time weather data collection from geostationary, highly elliptical, and Lagrange orbits. It also sought concepts for non-real time global sounding...

This federal contract award is for the design and development of a multiple-channel sensor system operating in the 15-micrometer spectral range for weather forecasting applications. The contract was awarded to Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc., a small business aerospace company that focuses on remote sensing and atmospheric science. The contract is part of the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program, specifically Phase II, and has a firm fixed-price structure with a...

This is a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to Orbital Micro Systems, Inc. (doing business as Orbital Microsystems Inc.). The contract is for the development of a prototype system to investigate adapting commercial small satellite synthetic aperture radar payloads to measure ocean surface wind vectors, supporting the SDA's priority technology focus areas. Orbital Micro Systems is a for-profit manufacturer...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $260,061 firm fixed price contract to Orbital Sciences LLC Tactical Space Systems Division, now known as Space Systems Division, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation. The contract is to conduct a mission concept study for a small satellite constellation in support of NOAA's needs. Specifically, the study will address NOAA's Broad Agency Announcement seeking proposals for instrument concepts and integrated mission designs to...

This is a Small Business set-aside contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to Radiometrics Corporation, a manufacturer of wind and thermodynamic profilers, weather decision support systems, and atmospheric remote sensing instrumentation. The $124,877 firm fixed-price contract is for a Launch Weather Decision Support System (LWDSS) that will provide timely and accurate thermodynamic, pressure, and lightning risk information to improve launch...

This is a $1,799,999.00 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Electronic Systems Center to Orbital Micro Systems, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for a Commercial Weather Data Pilot Program. The contract involves the provision of space-based weather observation data and intelligence to support improved weather forecasting and climate research. Orbital Micro Systems has previously conducted weather data validation services, prototype...

This federal contract award to Avmet Applications, Inc., a small business, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to design and prove the technical feasibility of a Weather Scenario Generator (WSG) that can support testing, development, and demonstration of advanced concepts and technologies for air traffic management through modeling and simulation. The contract, which is a Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase I action with a ceiling value of $124,617, aims to enable the creation...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $74,242 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I purchase order to Muon Space Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of multi-modal satellite remote sensing systems. The contract is for the modification of a commercial electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) instrument to collect mission-critical weather data. Muon Space has also received other federal contract awards, including a $6 million Other Transaction Agreement...