Lockheed Martin release
NOAA AWARDS LOCKHEED MARTIN $10 MILLION CONTRACT FOR NEXT-GENERATION
WEATHER SATELLITE SYSTEM PROGRAM DEFINITION AND RISK REDUCTION
DENVER, CO, October 31, 2005 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been
awarded a $10 million, six-month contract by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the Program Definition and Risk
Reduction (PDRR) phase of the nation’s next-generation environmental
satellite system, GOES-R. The contract has two options priced at an
additional $10 million each.
NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) program
has a 30-year history of success in observing and predicting the
intensity and track of severe storms in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
providing data for daily and long-range weather forecasting, and climate
studies. In addition to the Earth-observing instruments, the GOES
satellites also carry solar instruments that provide advance warning of
events on the Sun, such as solar flares, that can impact life on Earth.
“We look forward to extending our partnership with NOAA and NASA to
develop a high performance, low-risk, executable solution to meet the
nation’s next-generation environmental satellite needs,” said Wes
Colburn, vice president, Earth Observing Systems, GOES-R program
manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC).
These next generation GOES-R satellites will carry instruments that
offer dramatic improvements in our ability to observe the Earth and the
Sun and will lead to more accurate predictions of the intensity and
landfall of hurricanes with longer lead times than today, significantly
improving weather forecasts. Scientists will be able to use new
observations to monitor the variability of atmospheric constituents
associated with air quality and climate change. The aviation weather
community will also benefit from more accurate upper level wind
measurements, better predictions of clear air turbulence events, and an
improved ability to detect and track volcanic ash that can damage jet
engines.
In addition, GOES-R will field new capabilities. The satellites will
carry a coastal waters imager capability that will view the entire U.S.
coastline every three hours at high resolution. This instrument will be
used to evaluate the ocean’s biological productivity, detect harmful
algae blooms, and assess coastal zones after severe storms for
protection of fragile ecosystems. These new and augmented capabilities
provided by GOES-R will lead to significant economic benefits to the
nation in the areas of weather and water, climate, ecosystems monitoring
and management, and commerce and transportation.
The GOES-R team assembled by Lockheed Martin brings together the best
assets available across the corporation, and throughout industry and
academia, providing the in-depth experience and capabilities necessary
to successfully execute the GOES-R program.
LMSSC leads the GOES-R program team and is responsible for the space
segment. Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions (IS&S) provides
the systems integration and ground segment. Fifteen industry and
academic partners chosen for the Lockheed Martin team based on their
proven performance, bring additional domain expertise and key enabling
technologies to the GOES-R effort.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a major operating unit of
Lockheed Martin Corporation, designs, develops, tests, manufactures and
operates a variety of advanced technology systems for military, civil
and commercial customers. Chief products include a full-range of space
launch systems, including heavy-lift capability, ground systems, remote
sensing and communications satellites for commercial and government
customers, advanced space observatories and interplanetary spacecraft,
fleet ballistic missiles and missile defense systems.
Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions (IS&S) closely aligns
competencies and resources to address customer needs for
horizontally-integrated, net-centric solutions. IS&S is composed of
eight customer-focused lines of business and six teams of subject matter
experts that draw upon vast expertise throughout Lockheed Martin to
provide customers with the system-of-systems capabilities they need to
support complex net-centric operations.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 135,000
people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design,
development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems,
products and services. The corporation reported 2004 sales of $35.5 billion.
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