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Unisys Corp. has received a two-year contract extension to continue its supply of real-time radar data to the National Weather Service in an effort to aid in NWS’Â forecasting activities. Unisys will gather radar information from multiple sources into a single interface to help meteorologists predict severe weather, Unisys said Wednesday. The company has worked with […] More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to deploy a Raytheon-developed unmanned aerial vehicle to monitor and analyze hurricane activity, WBKO reported Tuesday. Peter Zampa writes NOAA is testing Raytheon’s Coyote UAS and aims to use up to seven units of the drone to aid in the agency’s storm forecasting efforts this year. Raytheon originally developed the Coyote to support the Defense Department‘s […] More
Louis Berger and New Jersey’s department of environmental protection have teamed up with industry partners to develop a resiliency plan to aid communities across 15 municipalities in Monmouth County as part of a regional coastal resilience grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NJDEP, Louis Berger, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, the Rutgers Climate Institute and local […] More
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has started to test a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather prediction and environmental monitoring satellite in a simulated setting. The Joint Polar Satellite System satellite will undergo a series of acoustic, vibration, and electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility tests at a facility Boulder, Colorado where the company built the spacecraft, Ball Aerospace said Friday. […] More
The National Science Foundation has opened a $5.9 million Arctic region-focused scientific research data center in the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. NSF’s Arctic Data Center will work to serve as the Arctic research community’s data preservation and discovery storage, the agency said March 23. The center will work to […] More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use a Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aerial system to carry out missions that aim to study El Nino-related weather conditions over the Pacific Ocean. NOAA will utilize NASA’s Global Hawk UAV for the Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology missions that will take place starting this month through March, Northrop said Friday. […] More
AeroVironment has received a contract from ADS to deploy its unmanned aircraft system to Antarctica in support of the U.S. Coast Guard‘s resupply mission for the National Science Foundation‘s McMurdo Station. The company worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to launch the RQ-20A Puma AE drone from Australia on Dec. 30, 2015, under […] More
Raytheon has built an unmanned air system for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in an effort to help agency and company researchers study hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA and Raytheon launched an upgraded version of the company’s Coyote UAS from a P-3 Orion aircraft over Avon Park, Florida, during a recent calibration flight test, the […] More
IBM has completed upgrade work on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s supercomputing systems intended for weather and climate forecasts under a $44.5 million contract. The company worked to increase the operational computing capacity of the Luna and Surge supercomputers from 776 teraflops to 2.89 petaflops each, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. “The faster runs and better spatial […] More
Lockheed Martin has handed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the second Geostationary Lightning Mapper for integration with NOAA’s second Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. The GLM sensor will fly onboard the GOES-S spacecraft and will work to monitor lightning from geostationary orbit in order to detect and provide warnings on tornadoes, storms and other severe […] More
Sevatec Inc. has been selected to deliver incident response, reporting and tracking systems to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s cybersecurity division. RSA, part of the Sevatec team that also includes Defense Point Security, will provide the RSA Archer tool for incident reporting to federal agencies, Sevatec said Tuesday. “Sevatec is honored to continue serving […] More
Harris Corp.‘s EDO Corp. subsidiary has been chosen to supply AN/APY-11 radar systems for two surveillance planes that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses to track hurricanes. Harris’ Exelis subsidiary and ELTA Systems will collaborate to build the multimode radar technology for integration into NOAA’s WP-3D Orion turboprop aircraft built by Lockheed Martin, Harris said Thursday. The alliance is scheduled to deliver the airborne radars in June […] More
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