Raytheon Selected for $250 Million NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development Contract

NASA has selected Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Md., for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development contract. The total value of the five-year, cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is $250 million.

Raytheon will perform development and sustaining engineering of software and hardware systems that provide science data management to the Earth Science Data and Information System Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The contractor also will coordinate and integrate task related activities with the project, NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers, the Earth science data centers, science investigator teams, the user community, and other Earth Observing System contractors. 

3-D visualization of the 1997-98 El Nino temperature anomaly (the red band in the Pacific Ocean), with higher than normal sea surface temperature and wildfires in South America (red dots on land).

 Image Credit: R.B. Husar, Washington University/NASA

The ESDIS Project is responsible for:

• Processing, archiving, and distributing Earth science satellite data (e.g., land, ocean and atmosphere data products)
• Providing tools to facilitate the processing, archiving, and distribution of Earth science data
• Collecting metrics and user satisfaction data to learn how to continue improving services provided to users
• Ensuring scientists and the public have access to data to enable the study of Earth from space to advance scientific understanding and meet societal needs.

The ESDIS Project manages the science systems of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). EOSDIS provides science data to a wide community of users for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

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For more information about NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System Project, visit:
http://esdis.eosdis.nasa.gov