National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Archives

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…

Apr 23, 2025 By Scoop News Group

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.

Apr 10, 2025 By Madison Alder

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.

Mar 14, 2025 By Madison Alder

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. (Image credit: Getty Images).

NOAA inboxes spammed with crude Trump jokes, Scientology subscription

Emails forecasting a “99% chance of shit showers” for the next four years and signing people up for Scientology Today were immediately posted online.

Jan 31, 2025 By Madison Alder

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).

NOAA’s environmental information hub working to ‘recoup data’ after Helene outage

Staff members and the data holdings of the National Centers for Environmental Information are safe following the storm, the agency said.

Oct 17, 2024 By Madison Alder

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.

Sep 3, 2024 By Madison Alder

Collage of the P-3, streamsondes, Altius-600, and SØ. — Graphic by Madison Alder

Behind the technologies at the forefront of improving NOAA hurricane data

Drones and small data-collection devices aim to improve measurements used to track and monitor the intense tropical cyclones in an effort to provide potentially life-saving information.

Aug 19, 2024 By Madison Alder

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.

Jun 6, 2024 By Madison Alder

Clare Martorana delivers remarks at the 2023 FedScoop 50 awards reception. (FedScoop)

New TMF investments boost agency projects in generative AI, digital service delivery, accessibility

Nearly $50 million in targeted investments awarded to the Departments of State, Education and Commerce.

May 16, 2024 By Caroline Nihill

Commerce CIO André Mendes and Department of Labor CTO Sanjay Koyani speak at the Swish Government, Innovation, Strategy and Technology summit at the Spy Museum. (FedScoop)

Commerce has reaped benefits from network consolidation, says CIO Andre Mendes

The IT leader says moving connections across the department to NOAA’s N-Wave network has achieved major operational efficiencies.

May 10, 2023 By John Hewitt Jones