NWS wants to accelerate a radar infrastructure overhaul. It’s seeking industry help.
Schedule acceleration was among the questions the weather agency posed during its first industry day for its Radar Next program.
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Bipartisan Senate bill would codify NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters, expand fleet
While the agency’s hurricane-piercing airplanes are already on track to be replaced, the bill would authorize $2.5 billion to expand the size of a new fleet.
Simultaneous drones, better data: NOAA hurricane tech hits milestones
As hurricane season begins, the weather agency is seeing promise in drones and other emerging plane-deployed technologies.
EHR modernization effort lacks cyber performance measures, GAO finds
A report found two years of missing measures and undefined fiscal 2026 goals for the health records’ interagency cybersecurity and privacy protections.
National Weather Service taps Accenture, Booz Allen for data system modernization
The two government contractors will each build new cloud-based tools for forecasting and analysis as well as centralizing weather data, replacing a decades-old system.
House, Senate lawmakers ignore requested Trump cuts at key science agencies
Congressional appropriators tossed aside the Trump administration’s requested cuts at NOAA, NIST, NSF and NASA in fiscal year 2026 funding bills released Monday.
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House Democrats eye DOE-led push on marine energy technologies
Legislation led by Rep. Nanette Barragán would give the Energy secretary $1 billion to fund ocean-powered energy technologies.
Space, satellite, defense companies urge lawmakers to fund NOAA space commerce office
Letters to House and Senate appropriators follow the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the office and elimination of its Traffic Coordination System for Space.
How Network-as-a-Service eases IT burdens for widely dispersed federal branch offices
Industry leaders from NOAA, Verizon and Cisco discuss how agencies with limited IT staff in branch locations can maintain reliable networks, predictable costs, and enhanced user experience…
Bipartisan bill aimed at enhancing NOAA’s AI use reintroduced in House, Senate
The legislation would require the weather and climate agency to develop a dataset to train AI forecasting models and support deployment of AI weather models in forecasts.