GMV will provide support to The Hammers Company for a US$14.9 million contract with NASA to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Mission Operations Element (MOE). The five year contract will find this satellite ground segment software company providing the Mission Planning and Scheduling system, including the command load generator based upon GMV's flexplan product — Mission Analysis & Archiving system based upon GMV's archiva product. — Solid State Recorder Modeling derived from GMV's satellite memory modeling product called satMEM — and systems engineering associated with these systems, as well as testing, installation, training and launch operations support. The MOE launch date is set tentatively for July 2011. The Hammers Company contract covers the design, development, integration, testing, delivery, and installation of the MOE; support for ground system and mission-level integration and test; support of operations readiness activities; engineering support during the launch and early-orbit period; and a period of sustaining engineering.

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