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Lockheed Martin and NVIDIA will develop a prototype digital twin for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to enable the agency to visualize large volumes of geophysical data from multiple sensors to help speed up climate research and environmental monitoring efforts. NVIDIA said Thursday it will offer its Omniverse Nucleus database and collaboration engine and […] More
NVIDIA has made upgrades to its Omniverse 3D design platform to enable collaborative workflows in research and development projects conducted by government laboratories and defense companies. The technology company said Monday NVIDIA Omniverse is now compatible with various scientific computing visualization tools and facilitates batch workloads processed in its A100 and H100 Tensor Core graphics […] More
Weather application developer MyRadar has secured a research grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to demonstrate a platform for processing wildfire risk data and disseminating hazard alerts. As part of the project, MyRadar aims to integrate the technology with an Earth observation sensor to be implemented in its future satellite constellation, the company […] More
A Parsons-led team will provide engineering support, information technology functionality and flight operations assistance for three Polar Operational Environmental Satellites of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Under a $16 million NOAA contract, the team comprising of ASRC Federal unit Arctic Slope Technical Services, Kongsberg Satellite Services and Parsons will support the operations of NOAA-15, […] More
Anduril Industries and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched on Wednesday an unmanned aerial system from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter P3 aircraft to gather atmospheric data while flying into the eye of Hurricane Ian. ALTIUS is an autonomous UAS that can be tube-launched from ground vehicles, watercraft and fixed- and rotor-wing aircraft, Anduril said […] More
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agency awarded a total of $13.8 million to seven companies and two NASA-run centers to explore emerging technologies that can support observation work in the space domain. NOAA said Thursday the grants were based on three broad agency announcements originally announced in April as part of the Joint Venture […] More
Maxar Technologies has received a license from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide non-Earth imagery service to monitor the space environment for orbital debris and other satellites and commercially offer that data, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar and a 2022 Wash100 awardee, said the company plans to use […] More
Spire Global has booked a $9.9 million order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to deliver commercial radio occultation satellite weather data to the agency in support of the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service. The fifth and final delivery order was awarded under an existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for purchasing vertical atmospheric temperature […] More
Speedcast subsidiary UltiSat has booked a multiyear contract to provide communications support for the Antarctic operations of a polar-orbiting environmental satellite constellation managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. UltiSat said Thursday it intends to use teleport facilities and a global interconnect network to deliver fiber optic terrestrial connectivity to the Joint Polar Satellite […] More
Maxar Technologies has been awarded a Phase A study contract to develop spacecraft concept, mature necessary technologies and other aspects for a three-satellite, next-generation constellation of weather monitoring satellites. The contract was awarded to Maxar by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations Spacecraft mission. “Maxar is excited to work on designing NOAA’s […] More
Science Applications International Corp. and Carahsoft have secured a three-year, $15 million task order to provide enterprise cloud services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The task order was awarded under an existing blanket purchase agreement and calls for the provision of 200 petabytes of egress capabilities and discounted storage services to NOAA’s National […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2022 — Spire Global is among the contractors of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on a pilot program for demonstrating commercial data impact on weather forecast models over a 12-month period, GovCon Wire reported. The company was awarded a Commercial Weather Data Pilot contract and will support the NOAA’s […] More
