RIVERDALE, Md., July 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center has awarded the Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a
five year contract valued at up to $240
million to continue its support of the Earth Observing
Systems Data and Information System (EOSDIS). This system
ingests, archives and makes earth science data available to the
scientific community worldwide. The latest EOSDIS Evolution and
Development (EED-2) contract is the third competitively awarded
contract Raytheon has received to maintain, operate and develop
improvements for data access and system performance. The initial
contract award was in 1992.
"For more than twenty years Raytheon has partnered with NASA
Goddard on developing innovative earth science data solutions,"
said Dave Wajsgras, President of
Raytheon Information, Intelligence and Services. "Our support
enables important research used to analyze climate data to better
understand how to protect our planet."
EOSIDS is NASA's portal for earth science data provided by both
NASA and upcoming international satellite missions. Raytheon's
continuous innovation allows for improving user experience while
managing data sets that are growing exponentially. In fiscal year
2014, the Raytheon-backed EOSDIS managed:
- 8,292 unique data set requests
- 2 million distinct users
- 27.9 terabytes per day of data distributed to end users
Under this contract, Raytheon will continue to proactively make
improvements that enable more integrated data access and data sets
for science applications. Specific work includes software
maintenance and enhancement, development of applications to process
and visualize data, and system and hardware evolution.
"Raytheon is tasked with making all of NASA's earth science data
available online for scientists and researchers around the world,"
said Todd Probert, vice president
for Mission Modernization and sustainment for Raytheon IIS. "The
latest contract award demonstrates Raytheon's ability to deliver
innovation on a key data processing system that has grown
exponentially to 9.1 petabytes of data. Our focus is on making an
enormous amount of data –the equivalent of 910 copies of
Wikipedia—available to researchers any time so they can continue
their important work."
Raytheon started work on EOSDIS in the early 1990's, delivering
the system's core data processing components. EOSDIS was brought
online in 2009 at https://earthdata.nasa.gov/, allowing direct user
access and dramatically reducing access times and data management
burdens.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of
$23 billion and 61,000 employees
worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in
defense, civil government and cybersecurity markets throughout the
world. With a history of innovation spanning 93 years, Raytheon
provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration
and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and
command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well
as cybersecurity and a broad range of mission support services.
Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham,
Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit us at www.raytheon.com
and follow us on Twitter @Raytheon.
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