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  • Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moved closer to its March 2016 launch date for the next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series with the completed integration of all instruments aboard the weather forecasting platform. The GOES-R now carries an advanced baseline imager, a geostationary lightning mapper, the Space Environment In-Situ Suite, Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray […] More

  • SAIC Crowdsources Ideas for NOAA Mobile Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Crowdsources Ideas for NOAA Mobile Applications

    Science Applications International Corp. asked the weather industry at a January conference for ideas on nontraditional ways to use National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration open data. The five winners that were selected were mobile applications for traffic forecasting, weather uncertainty tracking, weather emergency alert and medical preparedness, SAIC said Wednesday. The online contest, which ran for 10 […] More

  • NOAA Keys on Virtual Machines, Storage Services in Public Cloud RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Keys on Virtual Machines, Storage Services in Public Cloud RFI

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has asked industry for ideas and responses to a request for information on a public cloud computing setup the agency is interested in. NOAA says in the RFI released Friday that vendors should outline configurations, pricing and other characteristics in the service areas of virtual machines, storage services, network bandwidth […] More

  • Russell Katz: Lockheed's Lightning Mapper Sensor to Support NOAA Weather Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Russell Katz: Lockheed’s Lightning Mapper Sensor to Support NOAA Weather Services

    Lockheed Martin has completed the Geostationary Lightning Mapper for the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite that will support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s weather services and meteorological research work. The company said Wednesday the GLM sensor works as an early-warning instrument for severe storm such as tornadoes and will fly on the GOES-R spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch early in 2016. Russell Katz, […] More

  • Sonny Kakar: Sevatec to Lead NOAA IT System Security Contract Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sonny Kakar: Sevatec to Lead NOAA IT System Security Contract Team

    Sevatec has won a contract of an undisclosed value to help two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration organizations to continuously monitor NOAA’s information technology systems. The company said Tuesday it will support the operations of the agency’s Cyber Security Center and Enterprise Security Oversight Center. “As global climate change and the threat of natural disasters […] More

  • Lockheed Joins GOES-R Weather Satellite Modules, Harris Installs Product Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Joins GOES-R Weather Satellite Modules, Harris Installs Product Apps

    A Lockheed Martin team has completed its work to couple the large system and propulsion modules for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series. The A2100-based satellite’s system module comprises the command and data handling, communication and electrical power subsystems, Lockheed said Thursday. Harris Corp. has also installed the initial weather product applications into GOES-R’s ground segment hardware, […] More

  • Exelis Completes Testing on No. 2 GOES-R Imager Payload; Eric Webster Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Completes Testing on No. 2 GOES-R Imager Payload; Eric Webster Comments

    Exelis has completed environment testing for the second of four advanced baseline imagers for the government’s next-generation weather satellite. The imager payload will be attached to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R scheduled for a 2016 launch, Exelis said Thursday. According to the company, the trials on the second ABI, which […] More

  • Northrop Joins NOAA ‘Weather-Ready Nation’ Initiative; Ed Sturms Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Joins NOAA ‘Weather-Ready Nation’ Initiative; Ed Sturms Comments

    Northrop Grumman has signed up as a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador tasked to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s initiative to promote preparedness against severe weather and catastrophes. The company will kick off its involvement by hosting a one-hour digital gathering on Sept. 18 to discuss the topic “Overcoming Extreme Weather” at www.northropgrumman.com/extremeweather, Northrop said Wednesday. Dr. […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Receives Northrop's CERES Instrument for Integration Into NOAA Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Receives Northrop’s CERES Instrument for Integration Into NOAA Satellite

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System instrument built by Northrop Grumman for integration into the Joint Polar Satellite System beginning later this year. Ball Aerospace said Thursday that CERES will help JPSS-1 support the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership‘s weather and climate measurement missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CERES is designed to measure thermal radiation and […] More

  • Commerce Sec. Penny Pritzker, NOAA Chief Kathryn Sullivan to Speak at Esri GIS Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Sec. Penny Pritzker, NOAA Chief Kathryn Sullivan to Speak at Esri GIS Conference

    Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Kathryn Sullivan will discuss economic and technological trends in the geographic information system industry at Esri‘s User Conference next week. Esri said Wednesday that Pritzker will focus on the administration’s efforts to drive economic potential and information transparency through adoption of open data. Sullivan, who is also commerce undersecretary for […] More

  • Harris Installs Ground Segment Components of NOAA's Weather Satellite; Romy Olaisen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Installs Ground Segment Components of NOAA’s Weather Satellite; Romy Olaisen Comments

    Harris Corp. has completed the installation and integration of 89 out of 155 ground segment components of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — R Series weather monitoring tool of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Tuesday the tested network infrastructure hardware and software is located at NOAA’s satellite operations facilities in Suitland, Maryland; Wallops Island, Virginia; and […] More

  • Romy Olaisen: Harris, NOAA Bring Weather Satellite Antenna Online - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Romy Olaisen: Harris, NOAA Bring Weather Satellite Antenna Online

    Harris Corp. has built a new antenna feed structure that the government will use to process data from a geostationary weather monitoring satellite. The company is contracted to develop four 9.1-meter antennas for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series constellation, Harris said Wednesday. “We have worked closely with NOAA and […] More