The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration selected Techno-Sciences to supply a ground station with phased array antenna technology to support the agency's global search-and-rescue satellite operations in Wahiawa, Hawaii, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday.
Read More »NOAA Receives Beechcraft King Air Aircraft From Textron
Textron's aviation arm has handed over to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a mission-oriented variant of the Beechcraft King Air 350CER turboprop aircraft in support of the agency's emergency response missions and aerial survey efforts.
Read More »NOAA, NASA Kick Off Challenge for Magnetic Field Forecast Models
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA will jointly seek out input on how forecasts can reduce the adverse effects of geomagnetic storms faced by navigation systems. The MagNet: Model the Geomagnetic Field challenge calls for new forecast models that would help the government predict magnetic field changes and produce more accurate magnetic navigation, crowdsourcing initiative partner HeroX said Tuesday.
Read More »BAE Working on Microsatellite-Mounted Sensors for Weather Monitoring
BAE Systems is looking to introduce miniature spectrometers for microsatellites to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gather high-resolution weather and climate data, SpaceNews reported Monday.
Read More »AT&T Secures $311M NOAA Task Order to Modernize Network; Chris Smith Quoted
AT&T has been awarded a ten-year, $311 million task order from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to deliver modern networking capabilities and advanced technologies. "This task order award is testimony to our capability to deliver robust and reliable services at scale and manage them end-to-end to help government agencies like NOAA improve mission fulfillment," said Chris Smith, vice president of civilian and shared services at AT&T Public Sector and FirstNet.
Read More »Forrester’s Andras Cser: Data Protection Drives Cloud Access Security Broker Adoption in Public Sector
More government agencies have increased their use of cloud access security brokers, which offer an added protection layer between end users and providers, in an effort to help federal employees protect data while working remotely, FedTech Magazine reported Thursday.
Read More »Dewberry to Help Build Cloud-Based Public Repository of Coast Guard Vessel Data
Dewberry has partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to develop a cloud-based information technology that will open up data from the U.S. Coast Guard's Automatic Identification System.
Read More »Ball Aerospace Delivers Ozone Mapping Tech for NOAA’s Next Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite; Makenzie Lystrup Quoted
A Ball Aerospace-built ozone layer monitoring instrument has been shipped to a manufacturing facility for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite.
Read More »Orbit Logic to Develop Enterprise Scheduling Platform for NOAA
Orbit Logic has received a contract to develop an enterprise technology for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to schedule environmental satellite and ground infrastructure operations.
Read More »Travis Hartman: Maxar-AWS Partnership Helps NOAA Build Cloud-Based Computing Tech
Maxar Technologies collaborated with Amazon Web Services to build a cloud-based computing technology designed to accelerate processing of global weather data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SiliconANGLE reported Tuesday. “We knew NOAA had capabilities of weather prediction models in traditional on-premises, big beefy high-performance supercomputers, but we wanted to do it in the cloud; we wanted to use AWS as a key partner,” said Travis Hartman, director of analytics and weather at Maxar.
Read More »DOE, NOAA OK Northrop-Seatrec Team’s UUV Data Station for Dev’t; Alan Lytle Quoted
A data transmission concept developed by a team comprised of Northrop Grumman and Monrovia, Calif,-based company Seatrec has been chosen for the next phase of a competition focused on renewable energy-based ocean observation technologies.
Read More »NOAA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Radio Occultation Data Procurement
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a solicitation for the procurement of commercial radio occultation data for use in weather models, situational awareness products and other operational systems.
Read More »Centuria Wins NOAA Weather Radar Operations Support Contract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Centuria a potential five-year, $49.5M contract to support radar infrastructure at the National Weather Service's Radar Operations Center, according to an award notice posted Friday.
Read More »GDIT Updates NOAA’s ‘Hera’ Supercomputer to Help Drive Weather Monitoring Research
General Dynamics’ information technology business has installed an update to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hera CS500 supercomputer that supports modeling work for weather monitoring efforts.
Read More »ASTRA to Design Weather Cubesat Architecture for NOAA
Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates has received a six-month contract of an undisclosed value to design a small, low-Earth orbit satellite architecture to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's weather forecasting mission.
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