.NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and also Atmospheric Management (NOAA), has chosen Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a lightning mapping instrument as portion of NOAA's Geostationary Extended Monitorings (GeoXO) satellite system.This cost-plus-award-fee arrangement is valued at roughly $297.1 thousand. It includes the development of 2 air travel musical instruments and also choices for pair of added devices. The awaited time period of performance for this contract consists of help for 10 years of on-orbit functions and five years of on-orbit storing, for a total of 15 years for every flight design. The work is going to occur at Lockheed Martin's facilities in Sunnyvale, The Golden State, as well as Littleton, Colorado, NASA's Goddard Area Air travel Facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, and also the agency's Kennedy Room Facility in Florida.The GeoXO Super Mapper will find, situate, and determine the magnitude, period, and also degree of lightning flashes. The musical instrument will definitely carry on vital reviews offered due to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R (GOES-R) Set Geostationary Lightning Mapmaker. Information from Super Mapper will be actually used to assess severe hurricanes, improve cautioning lead time for harmful weather condition, and offer earlier evidence of overhanging lightning strikes to the ground. The data will certainly likewise be utilized for cyclone strength prophecy, wild fire discovery as well as action, rainfall evaluation, as well as to reduce air travel risks.Soothsayers need lightning info coming from geostationary arena because the data are available where various other sources are actually even more minimal, especially over oceans and also in hilly as well as rural areas. The data are also accessible much more regularly than local area radar as well as filler in radar insurance coverage gaps.The deal range features the jobs and also deliverables needed to create, assess, create, fabricate, integrate, test, validate, and assess the super mapper device in addition to sustaining the launch providing as well as keeping the instrument ground assistance tools as well as supporting objective operations at the NOAA Satellite Workflow Location in Suitland, Maryland.The GeoXO Course is the follow-on to the GOES-R Series Plan. The GeoXO satellite system will definitely evolve Planet monitorings from geostationary track. The purpose will supply essential relevant information to address primary environmental difficulties of the future in support of climate, ocean, as well as temperature functions in the USA. The advanced capabilities from GeoXO will certainly aid address our altering earth and the progressing necessities of the country's data users. Each NASA as well as NOAA are working to guarantee these crucial observations are in place due to the early 2030s when the GOES-R Set nears the end of its own operational life time.Together, NOAA as well as NASA oversee the progression, launch, screening, and operation of all the satellites in the GeoXO Plan. NOAA funds as well as handles the plan, operations, and record items. In support of NOAA, NASA and also business companions cultivate and also create the instruments and space capsule as well as launch the satellites.For additional information on the GeoXO system, go to:.https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/geoxo.- end-.Liz VlockHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600elizabeth.a.vlock@nasa.gov.Jeremy EggersGoddard Area Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.757-824-2958jeremy.l.eggers@nasa.gov.John LeslieNOAA's National Environmental Gps, Data, and Relevant Information Service202-527-3504nesdis.pa@noaa.gov.