The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Alpha Omega Integration a five-year follow-on contract to support data and application management activities within the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center. The $9.6 million award covers technical support, cloud engineering, programming, and system and network administration, Alpha Omega said Thursday. SEFSC depends on its […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Proteus Ocean Group will work together to explore research opportunities and better understand the ocean environment using a modular underwater habitat, called PROTEUS, under a cooperative research and development agreement. PROTEUS is an underwater site that will be built off the Caribbean island of Curacao to provide scientists […] More

NASA has selected four companies and one university research organization to conduct phase A study on developing a solar coronagraph instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s space weather forecasting mission. EO Vista, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business, Southwest Research Institute and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is preparing to issue three broad agency announcements for possible industry research that can support the Office of System Architecture and Advanced Planning Joint Venture Partnership. NOAA said Thursday the BAAs will focus on next-generation ground and data communication systems, numerical weather prediction, and reducing the impact of 5G […] More

Spire Global has landed a position on a potential $59 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for satellite weather data. Spire will compete for orders to provide NOAA with real-time radio occultation data that consists of vertical profiles of atmospheric measurements, which will be utilized for NOAA’s weather forecast, model and […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will work with aerospace and defense company L3Harris Technologies on enhancing satellite communication technology for expanded data handling capacity. Under a cooperative research and development agreement, the partnership will assist the multi-band multi-mission digital beamforming phased array antenna system, the agency’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service said […] More

KBR and Norway-based Kongsberg Satellite Services have partnered to develop ground communications infrastructure for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observatory designed to observe solar activity in space.  The two companies aim to create a network of terminals and an associated service the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 mission the agency plans to launch in […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is soliciting offers as it plans to launch a full and open competition and award six indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for environmental field services. The services to be provided under the IDIQ contracts will support the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services within NOAA’s National Ocean Service, according to a […] More

Northrop Grumman will refurbish a component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Joint Polar Satellite System to allow for its use on another agency program. JPSS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder Engineering Development Unit refurbishment work is under a sole source contract modification from NASA worth $13.3 million, raising the total contract value to $579.8 […] More

Six companies and one nonprofit association have received contracts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out data analysis work over two months as part of a space traffic coordination pilot project. Awardees will track satellites in medium and geostationary Earth orbits, detect anomalies and analyze spaceflight safety measures, NOAA said Tuesday. The […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has expanded the remote sensing license for Maxar Technologies’ satellites to include non-Earth imaging services. The NOAA approval allows Maxar to use NEI to gather and share images of space objects with commercial and government customers, the company said Monday. Maxar’s on-orbit imaging constellation and next-generation WorldView Legion satellites […] More

Microsoft has signed an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide cloud computing capabilities in support of NOAA’s environmental research and development efforts. The company will integrate cloud computing capabilities into a range of collaborative R&D efforts aimed at advancing the agency’s climate, weather and ocean prediction initiatives, NOAA said Wednesday.  Under […] More