NASA Selects Earth Science Data and Information Contractor

WASHINGTON -- 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.

For more information about NASA's Earth Science Data and Information
System Project, visit:

http://esdis.eosdis.nasa.gov

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http://www.nasa.gov

Source: NASA