NASA Awards Microwave Sounder Contract For JPSS Spacecraft

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sept. 14, 2011

Steve Cole 
Headquarters, Washington                               
202-358-0918 
stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx 

Cynthia M. O'Carroll 
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
240-684-0821 
cynthia.m.ocarroll@xxxxxxxx 

CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-040

NASA AWARDS MICROWAVE SOUNDER CONTRACT FOR JPSS SPACECRAFT

WASHINGTON -- NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration (NOAA), has awarded a sole source letter contract to 
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. of Azusa, Calif., for the Advanced 
Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) instrument planned for flight on 
the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1). 

The estimated value of this letter contract is $30 million with a 
period of performance from 2011 through 2017. Northrop Grumman will 
manufacture, test and deliver ATMS, support instrument integration on 
JPSS-1, and provide launch and post-launch support. 

The ATMS instrument is the next-generation cross-track microwave 
sounder that will combine the capabilities of current generation 
microwave temperature sounders that are flying on NOAA's 
Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites. The JPSS-1 
satellite will host the ATMS and other instruments necessary to 
provide civil weather forecasting and climate data under the JPSS 
program. 

JPSS is the restructured civilian portion of the National 
Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). 
This system includes the satellites and sensors supporting civil 
weather and climate measurements and a shared ground infrastructure 
with the Department of Defense weather satellite system. 

NASA is the procurement agent for these assets, and the agency's 
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is the lead for 
acquisition for the program. JPSS is managed on behalf of NOAA by the 
Joint Agency Satellite Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate 
in Washington. 

For more information about JPSS, visit: 



http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/jpss 


For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov 

	
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