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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS

aerospaceexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2023 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2023-07-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-12·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80GSFC23CA046_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

ACQUIRE SERVICES FOR THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF THE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER FOR NASAS EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEM.

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

Continued operation and maintenance of NASA's Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite data archive for Earth observation research.

Sub-sectors
earth-observationsatellite-data-systemssar-archive
Why this matters

SAR satellites provide all-weather Earth monitoring crucial for climate research, disaster response, and geospatial intelligence.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains demand for Earth observation ground station infrastructure, data processing systems, and advanced computing for SAR data analysis.

U.S.–China competition angle

Maintains U.S. leadership in satellite Earth observation and geospatial intelligence as China expands its SAR constellation.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-13. Cost: $0.015088.

Period of performance
Start
2023-07-01
End
2026-06-30
Status
expired13 days ago
Sources

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