NASA Selects Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center Contract

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Jul 30, 2013, 04:04 ET

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected the University of Colorado Boulder for the management and operations of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center.

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This cost, no-fee completion contract is worth about $42 million. The base performance period is from Aug. 1 through May 31, 2014, with four one-year extension options.

This contractor will provide operating services to the National Snow and Ice Data Center for user services, product generation, data and information management at the Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center. Additional services include archival and distribution and related science support activities.

The work will be performed primarily at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder.

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