The Harris Corporation has been selected to help modernize the U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP).
The contract was awarded by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Defense Weather Systems Directorate as reported on Wednesday.
Harris Corp. said they will study and analyze the existing space and ground assets of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and develop plans to demonstrate they can evolve into the Weather Satellite Follow-on to meet mission needs and lower life cycle costs.
Items to be considered include information assurance, net-centric data strategies, scalability and affordability.
Potential issues of compatibility and transition, cutover of operations, sustainment impacts, operational disruption during a change-over and security implications will also be examined.
"Harris has been a technology partner of DMSP for over five decades and is excited to play a role in shaping the program's architecture for decades to follow," said Romy Olaisen, vice president, Environmental Systems product line, Harris Government Communications Systems.
"The Harris study approach will apply proven expertise in satellite data processing, command and control, and automated product generation and distribution to enable a cost-effective approach for providing weather information to the warfighter," Olaisen said.
Harris Corp. is a recognized leader in satellite ground data processing and mission command-and-control systems.
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