NASA Awards NOAA GOES-R Instrument Contract
   (NASA Press Release, dated August 24, 2006)

NASA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-R) Program, has selected Assurance Technology Corporation for a $101.7 million dollar contract.

The contract is for the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS), which will provide data for monitoring space environments as an instrument on the next generation of GOES.

The design and development of the SEISS instruments will be primarily performed at the contractor's facility in Carlisle, Mass. Once launched, the SEISS suite will be used primarily by NOAA's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo. The center provides real-time monitoring, forecasting and warnings of solar and geophysical events and disturbances.