A team led by Boeing, including Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Harris Corp., Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. and Carr Astronautics, submitted a proposal for the program definition and risk reduction phase of the next-generation geostationary weather and environmental system known as GOES-R.

GOES-R, which is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration program, will be an end-to-end system providing uninterrupted, high-quality environmental data to government and commercial users.

The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) family is the backbone of U.S. weather forecasting, environmental remote sensing and climate prediction.