Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2024)
Recipient: SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2006-06-24 to 2012-10-23
Current total value of award: $30000000
Description: SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE NASA SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR PROGRAM. THE OCEAN BIOLOGY PROCESSING GROUP (OBPG) REPRESENTS AN INTEGRATION OF MISSION OPERATIONS, DATA ACQUISITION, CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION, DATA PROCESSING, DATA ARCHIVAL AND DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS, AND COMMUNITY PROCESSING SOFTWARE SUPPORT WITHIN ONE CO-LOCATED GROUP.  THIS DIVERSITY OF ROLES REFLECTS NASA HEADQUARTERS STRATEGY FOR A MISSIONS TO MEASUREMENTS SCENARIO THAT FACILITATES THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSISTENT DATA SETS ACROSS MISSIONS NEEDED FOR CLIMATE DATA RECORDS.  THE OBPG IS CURRENTLY HANDLING THE OPERATIONAL PROCESSING OF SEAWIFS AND MODIS/AQUA OCEAN COLOR DATA PRODUCTS, THE REANALYSIS OF THE CZCS AND OCEAN COLOR AND TEMPERATURE SENSOR (OCTS) OCEAN COLOR DATA SETS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROTOTYPE DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR THE GLORY MISSION.  RECENTLY, THE OBPG HAS BEEN GIVEN THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MODIS/TERRA AND AQUA SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA PROCESSING, AND GROUND SYSTEM FOR THE AQUARIUS SALINITY MISSION WHICH IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN GSFC, THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL), AND THE ARGENTINE SPACE AGENCY, CONAE.  THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES FOR CONTRACTOR SUPPORT OF THESE ACTIVITIES.