The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $2,560,695 firm-fixed-price contract to Spire Global Subsidiary, Inc., doing business as Spire Global, for the Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) Ocean Surface Winds Pilot Study. The contract is a follow-on requirement from a 2023 pilot study and will evaluate commercial satellite-based Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) data for measuring ocean surface wind speeds. The contract has a period of...
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...
The U.S. Air Force awarded Muon Space Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods, a $6,000,000 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) contract for the "INNOVATION TO GLOBAL WEATHER SENSING" effort. This contract, which has no set-aside designation, supports research and development activities to improve global weather forecasting models through innovation in satellite-based weather sensing. Muon Space Inc. is the prime contractor and has been awarded additional federal contracts and grants...
The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $2.855 million firm fixed price purchase order to Spire Global Subsidiary, Inc., doing business as Spire Global, a small business, to deliver global navigation satellite system reflectometry observation data and derived ocean surface wind products under a total small business set aside. The prime contractor will provide these data and products collected from one or more satellites to NOAA on a continuous basis...
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a purchase order contract to Spire Global Subsidiary, Inc., doing business as Spire Global, for a Space Weather Pilot Study. The $1,700,000.00 firm fixed-price contract has an ultimate completion date of August 1, 2023. This contract was set aside for small businesses. Spire Global is a leading provider of space-based data, analytics, and services to federal agencies. The company operates a constellation of small...
This is a $20,000 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force to Muon Space Inc. on September 30, 2024. The contract, titled "HALO", is for the research and development of multi-modal satellite remote sensing systems to enhance weather forecasting models and advance Earth science objectives. Muon Space Inc. is a for-profit company that specializes in leveraging satellite data to support environmental monitoring and weather prediction. The contract has an...
This $3,401,450.00 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to The Tomorrow Companies Inc., a for-profit small business organization. The contract is for a Microwave Sounder Pilot Study to assess the quality and impact of available commercial microwave sounder observations. NOAA will use the pilot study data to investigate the utility of microwave sounder products developed by commercial vendors and the potential benefits of adding...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Orbital Micro Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer located in Boulder, Colorado. The $2,000,000.00 contract is for a Microwave Sounder Pilot Study to assess the quality and impact of available commercial microwave sounder observations. The goal is to investigate the utility of microwave sounder products developed by commercial vendors and the potential benefits of adding...
The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $575,000 firm fixed price contract to Geometwatch Corporation under a Broad Agency Announcement seeking proposals for low Earth orbit sounding satellite and geostationary orbit concept exploration. The contract calls for Geometwatch to provide global hyperspectral atmospheric sounding capability as a commercial fee-for-service option. This capability will support NOAA's needs for non-real time global...
This definitive contract from the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is valued at approximately $1 million. Awarded to Maxar Space LLC, it calls for a commercial hosting service to support NOAA's sustained Geostationary Weather Missions study. The solicitation sought proposals for instrument and mission concepts to collect regional weather and space data from geostationary, highly elliptical, and Lagrange orbits. It also requested studies to support...