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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to BAE SYSTEMS SPACE & MISSION SYSTEMS INC.

aerospaceexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2020 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2020-06-25·LATEST ACTION2026-03-24·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80GSFC20F0070_8000_NNG10AZ10B_8000
Award description

SPACE WEATHER FOLLOW ON - LAGRANGE 1 (SWFO-L1) SPACECRAFT

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Latest obligation on the SWFO-L1 spacecraft contract, which began in 2020 to monitor solar wind and space weather from the Sun-Earth L1 point.

Sub-sectors
space-weather-monitoringnasa-spacecraftm&o-contract
Why this matters

Space weather monitoring is critical infrastructure for protecting power grids, satellites, and communications; early warning enables mitigation of billion-dollar disruptions.

Supply-chain signal

BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems is a prime integrator; this obligation sustains supply chains for spacecraft avionics, sensors, and ground operations through mid-2026.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. space situational awareness and early-warning capability is a strategic advantage; China lacks comparable L1 monitoring assets and relies on U.S. data sharing.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-28. Cost: $0.003094.

Period of performance
Start
2020-06-25
End
2026-06-30
Status
expired13 days ago
Sources

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