GD Awarded $4 M for Landsat Data Continuity Mission Integration
(Scottsdale, Ariz., September 23, 2008) -- General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a five-year, $4 million contract by the Hammers Company, Inc., to provide the systems engineering and integration services needed to build the ground-based command and control system for the Mission Operations Element (MOE) of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite.
The Hammers Company, Inc., of Greenbelt, Md., is the prime contractor with the National Space and Aeronautics Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center for the LDCM-MOE command and control system.
General Dynamics C4 Systems will ensure that LDCM-MOE ground systems are compatible with those aboard the new LDCM satellite, which is being built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (Fairfax, Va.) under a separate contract to NASA. LDCM is scheduled to be launched in 2011.
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission will succeed the current Landsat 7 mission and provide expanded detection, differentiation and characterization of manmade and natural changes of global land surfaces.
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