Lynker, a Leesburg, Virginia-based science, engineering and technology company, has created a president post and selected Scott Rayder, former chief of staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to assume the new role. "With a proven track record of driving growth and innovation, Scott is poised to lead Lynker into a new era of success," said Lynker Founder and CEO Joe Linza.

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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has issued a request for proposals for the Geostationary Extended Observations Spacecraft Implementation program, which aims to launch multiple satellites for the GeoXO series, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration system that will provide Earth observation capabilities to help address various environmental issues and challenges. Goddard plans to award a […] More

Raytheon, an RTX business, has secured a four-year, $80 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to improve flood and water supply and quality prediction and analysis. The Next Generation Water Prediction Capability contract covers the development of a new water resources modeling framework to upgrade the national water model and optimize flood inundation mapping services, NOAA said Wednesday.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started soliciting information from potential sources as part of the on-ramping process for the second iteration of the Radio Occultation Data Buy contract. Responses to the request for information are due Oct. 31. More

Spire Global‘s U.S. subsidiary will help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research the use of global navigation satellite system reflectometry observations to gauge ocean surface wind and other characteristics. Work is under a Commercial Weather Data Pilot OSW contract supported by NOAA’s Commercial Data Program, the Office of Space Commerce said Monday. Spire Global […] More

Spire Global's U.S. subsidiary will help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research the use of global navigation satellite system reflectometry observations to gauge ocean surface wind and other characteristics. Work is under a Commercial Weather Data Pilot OSW contract supported by NOAA’s Commercial Data Program. More

Spire Global will vie with three other companies in the study phase of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration competition that aims to develop a radiometer for the observation of the Earth’s atmosphere. The company said Thursday it will seek to advance a microwave sounder for NOAA’s Near-Earth Orbit Network program through the $4.6 million Microwave-Based […] More

Spire Global will vie with three other companies in the study phase of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration competition that aims to develop a radiometer for the observation of the Earth’s atmosphere. The company will seek to advance a microwave sounder for NOAA’s Near-Earth Orbit Network program through the Microwave-Based Applications Phase-A study contract from NASA. More

NASA has awarded contracts to four companies to perform 12-month Phase A studies on sounders for microwave-based applications in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Near-Earth Orbit Network program. The NEON program is a collaborative mission of NOAA and NASA and covers next-generation microwave sounders in low-Earth orbit that provide data on the […] More

NASA has awarded contracts to Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global Subsidiary to perform 12-month Phase A studies on sounders for microwave-based applications in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Near-Earth Orbit Network program. More

NASA has awarded contracts to Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global Subsidiary to perform 12-month Phase A studies on sounders for microwave-based applications in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Near-Earth Orbit Network program. More

HII has booked an order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for two medium-class Remus 620 unmanned underwater vehicles. Remus 620, which debuted in November last year, is designed to travel 275 nautical miles and has a battery that can last 110 hours, HII said Thursday. The company’s Mission Technologies division will collaborate with […] More