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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

One of the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s two Hurricane Hunter planes is shown on display outside the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in June 2024. (Photo by Madison Alder)

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.
SILVER SPRING, MD – MARCH 03: Hundreds of demonstrators gather to protest against Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on March 03, 2025 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Last week the Trump administration fired about 800 probationary staff at NOAA, one of the world’s premier centers for climate science. The layoffs are on top of about 500 employees who left the agency after taking the so-called deferred resignation offer. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

NOAA firings spark concerns for agency’s data-centric mission 

Terminations could threaten the weather and climate agency’s public safety work and make existing staffing issues worse, former workers said.
MIAMI, FL – AUGUST 29: The logo of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seen at the Nation Hurricane Center on August 29, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images).

GDIT awarded $100 million to support new NOAA high-performance computer

General Dynamics Information Technology will support a new NOAA high-performance computer that promises to advance weather, climate, ocean and ecosystem prediction research.
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MIAMI, FL – AUGUST 29: The logo of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seen at the Nation Hurricane Center on August 29, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images).

Tough budget decisions for NOAA in focus at House hearing

Cuts to the agency’s ocean observation system, weather research programs, and the National Weather Service were among concerns from lawmakers.
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