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  • Commerce Dept Enlists Tech Giants for Big Data Project; Penny Pritzker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Dept Enlists Tech Giants for Big Data Project; Penny Pritzker Comments

    The Commerce Department will work with Amazon.com, Google, IBM, Microsoft and the Open Cloud Consortium on a big data project to figure out how to apply environmental data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for efforts to support the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the cooperative research and development agreements Tuesday at the American Meteorological Society forum. “As America’s data agency, we are […] More

  • SAIC Crowdsources Ideas for NOAA Mobile Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Crowdsources Ideas for NOAA Mobile Applications

    Science Applications International Corp. asked the weather industry at a January conference for ideas on nontraditional ways to use National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration open data. The five winners that were selected were mobile applications for traffic forecasting, weather uncertainty tracking, weather emergency alert and medical preparedness, SAIC said Wednesday. The online contest, which ran for 10 […] More