The Air Force, the Commerce Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration today awarded TRW's space and electronics business unit a multibillion-dollar contract to build and deploy a next-generation environmental satellite system. The contract is for the acquisition and operations phase of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), according to an Air Force statement. NPOESS will combine the nation's military and civilian environmental satellite programs into a single national system aimed at improving weather forecasting and climate...
