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Harris Opens Maryland Facility to Support NOAA Contract (2/4/10)
Harris opened a 24,400-square-foot facility to support activities for the company’s 10-year, $736 million Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - Series R Ground Segment (GOES-R GS) contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Harris is the program's prime contractor and systems integrator.
The Maryland office will house about 100 employees of Harris and its GOES-R GS subcontractors, Atmospheric and Environmental Research and Carr Astronautics. In addition to a development lab, the facility will include a staging area for equipment that ultimately will be installed at government facilities.
The GOES-R GS will receive and process in real time vast quantities of weather and environmental data from the next-generation of GOES-R weather satellites, and will distribute accurate and timely products to more than 10,000 direct users. These new products will significantly improve the ability of weather forecasters to more accurately predict dangerous weather, and in turn, warn the public faster, Harris officials said. The Harris GOES-R GS team will design, develop, deploy and maintain the ground segment, and will provide command and control of the operational satellites.
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