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   Mission Description:

     NPOESS is a tri-agency weather satellite program to provide timely, high-quality weather information as the nation's single source of global weather data. Per Presidential Decision Directive/National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)-2 (May 1994), the DoD, DOC and NASA are combining DoD's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DSMP) follow-on and DOC's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) as NPOESS, which will both support military operations and help protect national resources. It will provide visible and infrared cloud cover imagery, and other meteorological, oceanographic and solar-geophysical information.


  Key Program Factors:

Presidentially directed program (Presidential Decision Directive [PDD]-2)

Funding shared with DOC. DOC manages the program; NASA provides technology insertion

Appropriations committee notification needed for any funding adjustments

Acquisition Service and Category: Air Force, ACAT-1D

Program to transition from Phase 0 to Phase I (Dem/Val) (Milestone I decision in March 1997)

Program calls for five satellites with a first need date of 2007 to replace DOC's POES and DoD's DMSP (which is scheduled to be non-operational in late-2008)

One of the satellites is projected to be European.

 

     Major contractors:

Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, CA (formerly Martin-Marietta, Lockheed).

 



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