Would Extend Through 2022 If All Options Are Exercised

NASA has procured combined data support services under an agreement with the Norwegian Space Center in Oslo, Norway, for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program and various cooperative international missions. This action is supported under an international agreement between the United States and Norway.

This is a firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity procurement that includes one base year and four one-year options that would extend the term of the agreement through Aug. 13, 2022. The maximum value, including all options, is approximately $43.8 million. Work under this procurement will be performed at the Svalbard Ground Station in Norway and Troll Ground Station in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.

NOAA funds and operates JPSS missions to provide global environmental data in low-Earth polar orbit. NASA is the acquisition agent for the flight systems and components of the ground segment for JPSS and follow-on satellites.

Data and imagery obtained from the Joint Polar Satellite System will increase timeliness and accuracy of public warnings and forecasts of climate and weather events, thus reducing the potential loss of human life and property and advancing the national economy. The program will better ensure continuity of crucial climate observations and weather data in the future.

Data from instruments on JPSS will be used to continue long-term, in some cases almost 50 years, of satellite-based climate data records. These data records are unified and coherent long-term environmental observations and products that are critical to climate modelers and decision makers concerned with advancing climate change understanding, prediction, mitigation and adaptation strategies, policies, and science. JPSS, with its global view, will play a vital role in continuing these climate data records.

(Source: NASA news release. NASA image)

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