Global Science & Technology Wins JPSS Support Contract

摘要

Greenbelt, Md.-based Global Science & Technology Inc. (GST) said May 9 that it had been awarded a task order worth up to $22.8 million over five years to provide technical and engineering services in support of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration's (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program. "GST will perform technical and engineering services in support of the JPSS Calibration and Validation plan," GST President Chieh-san Cheng said in a statement. "Essentially, our work will include the engineering and technical support associated with checking out the spacecraft and testing its instruments after launch. This period of testing is referred to as calibration and validation, also known as 'Cal/Val.'"