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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS

aerospaceexpiring · 42d· period of performance ends in 42 daysONGOING · 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

Develop and operate a distributed archive center for NASA's synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite data.

Sub-sectors
earth-observationsar-data-archivenasa-eos
Why this matters

SAR data supports climate monitoring, disaster response, and environmental intelligence critical to U.S. Earth science capabilities.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains demand for data processing infrastructure, cloud storage services, and specialized SAR algorithm development.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. Earth observation leadership depends on maintaining advanced SAR data systems as China expands its own satellite reconnaissance capabilities.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002159.

Period of performance
Start
2023-07-01
End
2026-06-30
Status
expiring · 42din 42 days
Sources

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