Purchase Order DOCDG133E09SE4338

The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $670,111 firm fixed price contract to Xplore Inc., doing business as Xplore Space, to conduct a Panorama commercial solar observatory Earth-sun L1 mission study. The award was made under Broad Agency Announcement solicitation numbers NESDIS-OSAAP-BAA-2019-2004 and NESDIS-OSAAP-BAA-2019-2005 to study instrument concepts and integrated mission concepts for collecting regional real-time weather and space...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a Purchase Order to Orbital Micro Systems, Inc. for $2,700,000 on October 1, 2026, under a partial small business set-aside, to acquire commercial, near-real-time Microwave Sounder Level 1B and Level 1C radiance observation data from on-orbit Low Earth Orbit satellites. Performance will conclude by September 30, 2027. Work is performed at Orbital Micro Systems' facility in Boulder, Colorado. The data will support all-weather...

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...

The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $10,000 firm fixed price purchase order to NAL Research Corporation to provide satellite Iridium services in support of NOAA programs. As the prime contractor, NAL Research will deliver these communications services from August 2023 through August 2024 in Key Biscayne, Florida. NOAA utilizes various satellite technologies to fulfill its mission to understand and predict changes in Earth's environment,...

This is a $197,948.16 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to EOS Defense Systems USA Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit company, for space object commercial data. The contract work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama and is set to be completed by September 13, 2024. This award is associated with a pre-solicitation notice issued by NOAA's Office of Space Commerce, which is seeking information on existing or planned commercial...

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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a purchase order to The Tomorrow Companies Inc., a small business, for $7.299 million on July 1, 2026, to acquire commercial near-real-time microwave sounder Level 1B and Level 1C radiance observation data from one or more on-orbit low Earth orbit satellites. The order carries a partial small business set-aside. Performance is located in Boston, Massachusetts, with an eight-month data delivery period concluding March 1, 2027. The...

This is a follow-on task order award under a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) support contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The prime contractor is The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit organization that provides technical and scientific research, development, and advisory services to government space agencies. The $2,577,140 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will support NOAA's civil operational satellite programs, space situational...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $775,000 firm fixed price contract to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to conduct studies in support of the Broad Agency Announcement for Low Earth Orbit Sounding Satellite and Geostationary Orbit Concept Exploration. Specifically, Ball Aerospace will perform the Ball Operational Weather Instrument Evolution and Geostationary IR Sounder Study for Compact Hyperspectral IR Observations to develop instrument concepts and...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $237,767 firm fixed price contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's Payload and Ground Systems division, doing business as Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems Division, to conduct a study on next-generation microwave, infrared, and radio occultation sounding satellites. This contract, which has a completion date of November 21, 2020, was not set aside for any special category of business....