The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s National Weather Service awarded Raytheon Co. a contract to provide operations and maintenance for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS), a nationwide operational weather data analysis and dissemination system, Raytheon said Sept. 7.

Under the terms of the contract, Raytheon Information Systems will provide software operations and maintenance, software development, hardware maintenance and logistics, commercial off-the-shelf software maintenance, satellite communications and network monitoring and control. The contract has a five-year base period and five one-year options and is valued at $300 million if all options are exercised. Work on the contract will focus on more than 168 sites with AWIPS hardware, software and communications technology.