Kristen Smith
PlanetiQ and Spire Global Subsidiary have been awarded the fourth batch of delivery orders worth $10.37 million in total from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Radio Occultation Data Buy II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle.
A $6.54 million contract requires PlanetiQ to provide 2,200 near-real-time global navigation satellite system radio occultation data profiles daily, while Spire Global is responsible for delivering 800 GNSS-RO data profiles per day under a $3.83 million contract to support operational weather forecasting until Sept. 18, 2025, NOAA said Thursday.
The GNSS-RO data will be ingested into the numerical weather prediction models of NOAA, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy.
Various government agencies within and outside the United States will also use the data for operational and research purposes.
The latest Radio Occultation Data Buy II awards, funded through the NOAA Commercial Data Program and the Air Force Commercial Weather Data Pilot Program, build on two five-year contracts worth $59.31 million awarded to PlanetiQ and Spire Global in March 2023.
