.NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has chosen Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to create a super applying musical instrument as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) satellite program.This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at around $297.1 thousand. It features the development of pair of trip musical instruments in addition to options for 2 additional systems. The expected time frame of performance for this agreement includes help for 10 years of on-orbit functions and also 5 years of on-orbit storing, for a total of 15 years for each trip version. The job will take place at Lockheed Martin's resources in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Room Trip Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the organization's Kennedy Area Center in Florida.The GeoXO Super Mapper will certainly spot, situate, and measure the strength, timeframe, and also extent of super flashes. The equipment is going to carry on vital monitorings delivered by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Collection Geostationary Super Mapper. Information from Lightning Mapmaker will certainly be actually made use of to analyze severe storms, boost alerting preparation for hazardous weather, and also deliver earlier evidence of putting at risk lightning strikes to the ground. The data will likewise be used for cyclone strength prediction, wildfire discovery and action, precipitation evaluation, as well as to relieve flying hazards.Seers need to have lightning info from geostationary field because the data are actually offered where other sources are actually even more minimal, especially over seas and in mountainous as well as backwoods. The information are likewise readily available much more regularly than nearby radar and fill in radar protection voids.The deal range features the jobs and also deliverables essential to develop, assess, develop, create, incorporate, exam, confirm, as well as examine the super mapmaker tool along with supporting the launch supplying and sustaining the apparatus ground assistance equipment as well as assisting goal operations at the NOAA Gps Workflow Location in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Program is the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Plan. The GeoXO satellite body will definitely progress Planet reviews coming from geostationary track. The mission is going to provide crucial details to take care of major environmental problems of the future in support of weather, ocean, and also temperature operations in the USA. The advanced capacities coming from GeoXO will definitely assist resolve our changing earth and the advancing needs of the nation's information individuals. Both NASA and also NOAA are actually functioning to make certain these crucial monitorings are in area by the very early 2030s when the GOES-R Set nears the end of its own working life time.With each other, NOAA and NASA look after the growth, launch, testing, as well as function of all the gpses in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds and also handles the course, functions, as well as information items. In support of NOAA, NASA and business partners establish and also develop the musical instruments and also space capsule and also introduce the ancillaries.For additional information on the GeoXO program, visit:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Area Tour Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Gps, Information, and Details Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.