A team led by Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National Weather Service (NWS) to provide operations and maintenance for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS), a nationwide operational weather data analysis and dissemination system.
Raytheon estimates the value of the award, which has a five-year base period and five one-year options, to be approximately $300 million if all options are exercised. Work on the contract will focus on supporting more than 168 sites with AWIPS hardware, software, and communications.
AWIPS provides an extensible architecture to allow for highly available data communications, processing, and meteorological and hydrologic display capabilities in an integrated environment. It supports NWS’ operational mission by providing a very efficient and effective means for forecasters to prepare and issue timely, accurate forecasts and warnings.
Raytheon Information Solutions (RIS), based in Reston, VA, will provide software operations and maintenance, software development, hardware maintenance and logistics, COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) software maintenance, satellite communications, and network monitoring and control. Raytheon will perform the work, as well as operate a network control facility, primarily in Silver Spring, MD.
Teaming with Raytheon are Keane Federal Systems in McLean, VA; Globecomm Systems in Hauppauge, NY; ENSCO in Falls Church, VA; GTSI in Chantilly, VA; Reston Consulting Group in Herndon, VA; Fairfield Technologies in Washington, DC; Apex Digital Systems in Silver Spring, MD; and Earth Resources Technology in Jessup, MD. Corporate release.