Purchase Order 80NSSC21P1983

This federal contract award supports the development of a Global Land Cover, Land Use, and Land Cover Change (GLCUC) data record based on Landsat imagery. The prime contractor, Trustees of Boston University, will partner with the U.S. Geological Survey to create high-quality, high-resolution annual maps of global land cover, land use, and land cover change from 2001 to 2020. The $3,789,479.00 grant will provide critical information for modeling land surface biophysical properties, ecosystem...

This federal contract award is for LANDSAT-7 images, awarded to the United States Department of Geological Survey, doing business as the Eros Center. The contract has a ceiling value of $100,000.00 and was awarded on February 13, 2001, with a final completion date of February 12, 2007. The contract is an intragovernmental agreement and was not set aside for any specific category of business. The Eros Center, a child organization of the U.S. Federal Government, is the prime contractor for this...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $678,343.16 cost-plus-award-fee delivery order contract to General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. (GDMS) for the LANDSAT MISSION OPERATIONS NETWORK TECHNICAL REFRESH project. This contract, which has a period of performance through November 19, 2025, does not have a set-aside designation. GDMS is a major provider of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions to federal agencies. The...

The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a $35,870 firm fixed price purchase order to MDA Information Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies LTD, for software upgrades to the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Mapping Tool. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and was completed on February 28, 2012. The NLCD Mapping Tool software upgrades were likely in support of the U.S. Geological Survey's land cover mapping...

The Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Eros Data Center awarded a $16.8 million delivery order to General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. to provide contractor support for sustained operations of the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites as well as the Landsat Multi-Satellite Operations Center and Backup Operations Center through June 2023. General Dynamics will deliver goods and services in support of ensuring continuous collection and processing of land remote sensing data to...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $153,768.53 firm-fixed-price delivery order to Tecolote Research, Inc. to provide subject matter expertise and support in building and delivering a Joint Confidence Level (JCL) model for the Landsat 9 USGS Ground System using the Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools (ACEIT) JACS application. This work is part of the Landsat 9 program, a joint initiative between the USGS and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to continue...

This is a $116,992 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to Next Tier Concepts Inc. (NT Concepts) on June 30, 2020. The contract provides the Forest Service with access to the Google Earth Engine platform for 120 simultaneous users through June 30, 2021. The Forest Service sought a cloud-based remote sensing image processing platform with access to a broad range of earth observation and terrain data, including high, moderate, and coarse...

This is a $599,223 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to evaluate the integrated use of Landsat and Sentinel 2 satellite data in identifying and mapping the extent of major commodity crops like wheat, corn, and soybean. The goal is to improve the accuracy of crop type identification and areal extent estimation across diverse cropping systems. The project will use higher temporal resolution MODIS data as a...

This is a delivery order awarded to General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. for $4,504,951.78 to initiate the transition of Landsat 8 satellite operations from the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Building 14 to the Landsat Multi-Satellite Operations Center (LMOC) in GSFC Building 32. The contract was awarded by the Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey (USGS) Eros Data Center and does not have a set-aside designation. General Dynamics Mission Systems is a subsidiary of the...

This federal contract award is for the Advanced Technology Land Imaging Spectroradiometer (ATLIS), a small, multispectral pushbroom imager designed to provide calibrated imagery for the Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) program. The intent is to build and test a single spectral band prototype ATLIS to demonstrate its ability to meet or exceed SLI requirements for spatial and temporal coverage, spatial performance, radiometric signal-to-noise ratio, and other key parameters. The contract, awarded by...