{"id":86625,"date":"2010-07-21T20:56:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/noaa-issues-130-million-goes-r-antenna-contract-to-harris\/"},"modified":"2010-07-21T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:56:38","slug":"noaa-issues-130-million-goes-r-antenna-contract-to-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/noaa-issues-130-million-goes-r-antenna-contract-to-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Issues $130 Million GOES-R Antenna Contract to Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-21-10] <strong>The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/strong> (NOAA) awarded <strong>Harris Corp.<\/strong> a 10-year, $130 million contract to supply antennas and control systems for NOAA\u2019s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Series-R (GOES-R) program, Harris announced July 20.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harris will work with contract teammates <strong>General Dynamics Satcom Technologies <\/strong>and <strong>ARES<\/strong> to deploy the GOES-R antennas, which aim to provide communications links for command, telemetry and sensor data as well as the communications link to direct data users. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract includes design, fabrication, and testing of six 16.4-meter antennas and upgrading four 9.1-meter antennas. The 16.4-meter antennas will be installed at the NOAA Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station in Wallops, Va., and a remote backup site in Fairmont, W.Va.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The NOAA GOES-R program\u2019s mission is to enable receipt and processing of weather data 40 times faster than today as well as delivery of weather images directly to end users. Harris also is the prime contractor and systems integrator for the 10-year, $736 million GOES-R Ground Segment program contract awarded in May 2009. As part of that program, the Harris team is designing, developing, and maintaining the ground segment, and will provide command and control of the GOES-R operational satellites.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Harris Wins $78 Million HF Radio Order<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 26, 2010<br \/>\n[02-26-10] Harris Corp.  received a $78 million order from the U.S. Department of Defense to  provide additional Falcon 2 AN\/VRC-104 high-frequency tactical mobile  satellite radio systems for use in military all-terrain vehicles\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">NOAA Merges Climate Science, Service Delivery Offices<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 10, 2010<br \/>\n[02-10-10] The U.S. Department  of Commerce is planning to create a U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric  Administration (NOAA) Climate Service line office that will combine the  agency s climate science and service delivery capabilities\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Harris Opens Maryland GOES-R Facility<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 8, 2010<br \/>\n[02-08-10] Harris Corp. has  opened a 24,000-square-foot office in Maryland to support its 10-year  GOES-R satellite ground segment contract with the U.S. National Oceanic  and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) , the company announced\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-21-10] The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Harris Corp. a 10-year, $130 million contract to supply antennas and control systems for NOAA\u2019s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Series-R (GOES-R) program, Harris announced July 20. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harris will work with contract teammates General Dynamics Satcom Technologies and ARES to deploy the GOES-R antennas, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-86625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86625"}],"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=86625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}