L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has booked a $765.5 million cost-plus-award-fee contract to develop a high-resolution infrared imaging system for a collaborative Earth observation initiative of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Under the contract, L3Harris will build two instruments that will fly on the future Geostationary Extended Observations spacecraft and produce additional imager units if options are exercised, NASA said Tuesday.
The company will also design, fabricate, integrate, test and maintain the instrument ground support equipment and support GeoXO mission operations at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility.
Other tasks will occur at contractor facilities, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NOAA’s GeoXO Imager will be a multichannel passive imaging radiometer designed to observe the Western Hemisphere’s ocean, weather and environment.
The award to L3Harris comes three months after the Department of Commerce approved the procurement of GeoXO systems to follow the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series constellation.
