.NASA, in behalf of the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build a super mapping tool as part of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) gps system.This cost-plus-award-fee agreement is actually valued at about $297.1 thousand. It consists of the growth of 2 trip tools and also choices for 2 added devices. The awaited time frame of performance for this contract includes assistance for one decade of on-orbit procedures and also 5 years of on-orbit storage, for an overall of 15 years for every trip version. The job is going to happen at Lockheed Martin's locations in Sunnyvale, California, and Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Space Tour Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as the company's Kennedy Room Center in Fla.The GeoXO Super Mapmaker will definitely discover, situate, and also gauge the magnitude, timeframe, as well as extent of super flashes. The musical instrument is going to continue vital reviews given by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Collection Geostationary Super Mapmaker. Data coming from Super Mapper will definitely be made use of to evaluate serious storms, increase cautioning preparation for dangerous weather, and also supply earlier indications of impending lightning strikes to the ground. The records will certainly also be actually used for storm strength prediction, wildfire detection and also action, precipitation estimate, as well as to alleviate aviation hazards.Prognosticators require super information coming from geostationary field because the data are actually readily available where other resources are actually a lot more limited, specifically over oceans as well as in mountainous and rural areas. The data are actually also on call even more frequently than local radar and also stuffing in radar protection spaces.The agreement scope features the tasks and deliverables essential to develop, analyze, develop, assemble, integrate, examination, verify, and evaluate the super mapper apparatus in addition to assisting the launch offering and also sustaining the device ground assistance devices and also sustaining mission functions at the NOAA Satellite Workflow Resource in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Course is the follow-on to the GOES-R Collection Course. The GeoXO gps body will certainly evolve The planet monitorings coming from geostationary track. The mission is going to provide essential information to attend to significant ecological difficulties of the future in support of weather condition, ocean, and environment procedures in the USA. The state-of-the-art capacities from GeoXO will certainly assist address our altering earth and the developing requirements of the nation's information customers. Each NASA and also NOAA are actually working to ensure these crucial observations remain in spot due to the early 2030s when the GOES-R Collection nears the end of its own functional lifetime.All together, NOAA and NASA manage the growth, launch, screening, and operation of all the satellites in the GeoXO Program. NOAA funds as well as manages the system, operations, as well as data products. In support of NOAA, NASA as well as industrial partners establish as well as create the musical instruments and space probe as well as release the satellites.For more details on the GeoXO program, check out:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- edge-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Room Flight Facility, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Information, as well as Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.