NASA announced on Friday, September 27 that it selected the University of Alaska Fairbanks to develop and operate the Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center for NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System. The DAAC is managed by the Alaska Satellite Facility at the Geophysical Institute at UAF.

The maximum total value of this cost-no-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is about $49 million. The contract begins Oct. 1 and extends through Sept. 30, 2018.

ASF will conduct systems engineering, operations and maintenance, development, user services, product generation, and data and information management, archive and distribution; and provide information technology security and related science support and research activities for NASA's Earth Science Data Systems Program.

The work will be performed primarily at the University of Alaska DAAC in Fairbanks.

Learn more about the Alaska Satellite Facility here.

Access the NASA announcement here.