Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $185 million contract modification to update a common ground system for three National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration environmental satellites. The company will refresh ground station technology for the Joint Polar Satellite System, which works to gather weather and storm data from polar-orbiting spac...
Bostonia Partners LLC has obtained nearly $258 million in permanent funding to refinance two leased facilities for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Md. The Bostonia Group investment banking arm closed the two transactions with investors in the private placement market for the General Services Administration’s ...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has won a $502 million contract to continue providing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with computing technology and services. NOAA announced it would award IBM the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract on Nov. 29, 2011. IBM said Wednesday it will support the government agency’s operational we...
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a $30 million contract to provide microwave equipment for a polar weather satellite. The company will provide microwave temperature-sounding instruments used to forecast weather for the military and collect climate information. NASA awarded the contract on behalf of the National Oceanic and...
Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) GOES-15, the eighth Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite produced by the firm, has successfully completed on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “GOES-15 completes the fleet of advanced meteorological satellites that Boei...
