We are thrilled to be on the winning team working on the Technical Support Services Contract for the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The center combines remotely sensed data and science to better understand how the Earth’s changing landscape impacts ecosystems, economics and everyday life.
EROS operates the Landsat satellite program and maintains the largest civilian collection of images of the Earth’s land surface in existence. This data serves those who work in agriculture, emergency response, intelligence, regional planning, education and research.
Under this cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the winning team under KBR will partner with USGS to analyze and assess changes to the Earth’s landscape over the next five years. The team will perform satellite systems engineering, software development, cybersecurity, data storage, program management, network engineering, satellite data acquisition, and scientific research and application development for remote sensing data.
This work equips decision makers with valuable data to better understand and positively impact the planet. This includes helping evaluate wildfire risk; collaborating with other programs to predict famine and prevent food insecurity; and studying impacts of coastal change. Users throughout the world rely on data from EROS to assess how to best manage land resources for their communities.
KBR has supported the center since 2008 and will build on this collaboration to ensure the success of critical next generation programs, such as Landsat Next and the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment and Projection initiative.
The Earth Space Technology Services team will be proudly supporting the TSSC Science Team. To read KBR’s official announcement, click here.
