$42,384,322
National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration
to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
aerospaceactive
ACTION DATE2026-03-30·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80GSFC23CA035_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description
SUPPORT FOR THE SNOW AND ICE DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) FOR THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEM (EOSDIS)
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In plain English
Funds the Snow and Ice DAAC, a data archive center supporting NASA's Earth Observing System climate and environmental monitoring.
Sub-sectors
earth-observationclimate-data-infrastructureeosdis
Why this matters
Critical infrastructure for global climate monitoring, weather prediction, and ice-sheet tracking essential to climate science and policy.
Supply-chain signal
Sustains demand for satellite data processing, storage infrastructure, and climate science software/analytics capabilities.
U.S.–China competition angle
U.S. maintains independent Earth observation and climate data systems; China developing parallel satellite networks for similar monitoring.
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Period of performance
Start
2023-04-01
End
2027-03-31
Status
activein 318 days
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Sources
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