Tag Archives: NOAA

KBR’s (NYSE: KBR) Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $128.4M contract to provide data processing and technical services for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration network system used to process Earth observation data.

Joe Klimavicz, formerly chief information officer of the Department of Justice, has joined KPMG as a managing director, FedScoop reported Thursday. He will advise federal agencies on cybersecurity and cloud migration in his new role at KPMG.

Executive Mosaic is thrilled to present Dave Levy, vice president of federal business for Amazon Web Services (AWS), as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for leading the push for information technology modernization and cloud adoption for federal agencies as well as forming significant partnerships to advance AWS’ capabilities. 

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business won a potential 10-year, $505M contract to provide managed services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s weather supercomputing systems, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Feb. 13.

Ace Info Solutions has landed a spot on a potential five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract of an undisclosed sum through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Professional and Technical Services Weather Domain vehicle to provide hydrological, meteorological and communications capacities to the National Weather Service.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded 22 companies positions on a potential $3B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for professional and technical services.

Amazon Web Services, Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have secured separate contacts to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provide environmental data sets for public access through the use of cloud computing platforms.

Unisys (NYSE: UIS) booked a potential five-year, $144M contract during the third quarter to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration migrate agency operations to a cloud computing environment. "We look forward to assisting NOAA as it moves forward to modernize its IT operations in support of its crucial mission in support of climate science, the environment and the overall U.S. economy," said Gary Wang, vice president of cloud, infrastructure and security services at Unisys' federal business.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has assembled a microwave instrument for the second Joint Polar Satellite System being built to support weather forecasting and climate monitoring efforts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company began testing JPSS-2's Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder to determine whether the technology can withstand environmental conditions during liftoff and in space, NASA said Thursday.

Kathryn Sullivan, a retired NASA astronaut and former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has joined the board of managers at Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) federal arm. “We welcome her experience and insight as we continue to evolve our company and help our clients stay ahead of their changing mission needs," said John Goodman, chief executive of AFS and a 2019 Wash100 winner.