The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR), GeoOptics and PlanetiQ to supply space weather data under a pilot program that seeks to demonstrate the impact of commercial data on weather forecast models. The Commercial Weather Data Pilot contracts call for the three companies to provide radio...
Lynker has received a potential five-year, $136.9 million task order to deliver scientific support services to the National Centers for Environmental Prediction within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service. The company said it will work with Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and Axiom Co...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is eyeing a cloud migration that could be transformative for the agency’s National Weather Service and open up new possibilities for the future of forecasting, according to a top NWS official. Mary Erickson, acting assistant administrator for NOAA and acting director for NWS, said her organizatio...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released an annual report outlining NOAA’s 2021 accomplishments in research and development and one of those is the Future Seas project. The Future Seas project explored how climate change could impact West Coast fisheries using models and how fishing communities prepare for the effects of cl...
GovCon Wire Events will host a fireside chat on Tuesday, April 5 with Mary Erickson, acting assistant administrator for weather services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and acting director of the National Weather Service. Erickson will offer insights on weather and climate forecasting and how NWS works to improve satellite, ai...
Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has purchased Axiom Data Science for an undisclosed sum to broaden its climate data analytics platforms and will operate the acquired company as part of its government services group. Axiom is based in Anchorage, Alaska, and performs climate science modeling to help federal, academic, nongovernmental organizations and comme...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a solicitation for a 10-year recompete contract for professional, technical and scientific services focused on the satellite domain. The ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract set aside for small businesses and has a base term...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has secured a $67 million contract to engineer space and ground systems that support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s environmental operational satellites. ASRC Federal Space and Defense will conduct satellite data collection, management and deployment efforts as part of NOAA’s Engineering ...
The General Services Administration has established a potential 10-year, $2.1 billion multiple-award blanket purchase agreement that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration can use to procure information technology products and services from small enterprises to meet mission needs. The NOAA Mission IT Services BPA is a small business set...
Alpha Omega Integration will help a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agency manage information technology systems for processing global environmental satellite data under a $63 million contract. The Vienna, Virginia-based company said Wednesday it will provide IT support to more than 2,000 users of the Integrated Information Services ...
