{"id":59619,"date":"2020-06-01T17:25:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T09:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dod-gives-northrop-grumman-7m-modification-for-dmsp-contract\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T17:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T09:25:39","slug":"dod-gives-northrop-grumman-7m-modification-for-dmsp-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dod-gives-northrop-grumman-7m-modification-for-dmsp-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"DOD Gives Northrop Grumman $7M Modification for DMSP Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Department of Defense <\/strong>(DoD) has awarded<strong> Northrop Grumman Systems <\/strong>&nbsp;a $7,304,322 firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement modification to its contract for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) sensor sustainment.&nbsp;The DMSP has been collecting weather data for U.S. military operations for more than five decades and provides secure global weather and space weather data to support DOD.<\/p>\n<p>This contract modification, announced May 28, provides for the exercise of an option for sensor sustainment of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program on-orbit constellation being provided under the basic contract. Work will be performed in Azusa, California; Baltimore; Boulder, Colorado; and Dallas. Work is expected to be completed May 31, 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The total cumulative face value of the contract is about $29 million. The Space and Missiles Systems Center, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems &nbsp;a $7,304,322 firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement modification to its contract for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) sensor sustainment.&nbsp;The DMSP has been collecting weather data for U.S. military operations for more than five decades and provides secure global weather and space weather data to support DOD. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}