According to the Orlando Sentinel , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants a ground-based computer network that will serve the agency's next-generation weather-satellite constellation.
Harris is competing with Raytheon for the contract to build the network, which will operate, control and process the satellite data. The decade-long contract will be awarded this spring.
In December, NOAA awarded the satellite-manufacturing portion of the GOES-R programme to Lockheed Martin's space-systems division. The first launch of the new satellite constellation is scheduled for 2015