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Lockheed Martin GOES-R Program Team to Include SAIC and IBM |
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DENVER, April 18, 2006/Satnews Daily/ — Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) announced on Monday that Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and IBM Business Consulting Services have joined the GOES-R Lockheed Martin Team in competition for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) program.
“The knowledge and technologies that SAIC and IBM bring to the team are invaluable and are important essentials to meet NOAA's needs,” said Wes Colburn, vice president, Earth Observing Systems, GOES-R program manager of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.
SAIC's Earth Sciences Operation brings strong scientific programming and technology expertise to the development of calibration algorithms, and characterization and modeling of the suite of sensors, in addition to environmental data analysis and modeling. SAIC's contribution will enhance environmental forecasting abilities that support evolving needs of the environmental community, the U.S. government and society at large.
IBM is an industry leader in the design and development of service-oriented architectures (SOA) and the related software products to model, assemble, deploy and manage an SOA. IBM Business Consulting Services will support Lockheed Martin in the migration of the current GOES infrastructure into a service-oriented, open architecture design to enhance the flexibility and responsiveness to end-users' diverse needs.
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) program is a key element of NOAA's operations. The GOES-R series will comprise improved spacecraft and instrument technologies, with faster ground processing for new and advanced products that will lead to significant economic benefits for the nation in the areas of weather and water, climate, ecosystems monitoring and management, and commerce and transportation.
GOES-R will be the cornerstone of the Global Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS), an international partnership of over 60 countries leading a worldwide effort to build a 'system of systems' consisting of existing and future Earth-observation systems (space, air, ground, water).
In addition to Lockheed Martin, SAIC and IBM, the GOES-R team members include ARES Corporation, ASRC Aerospace Corporation, Emergent Space Technologies, Global Science & Technology, Honeywell, Intelsat, ItriCorp, Kamel Engineering Services (KES), The Pennsylvania State University and RS Information Systems (RSIS).
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