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Extreme Weather, AI, and Infrastructure Resilience: Insights from CISA ISD Chief Meteorologist Sunny Wescott

Sunny Westcott, CISA ISD Chief Meteorologist - Federal Emergency Response Official at DHS, discusses the growing impacts of extreme weather on critical infrastructure, the role of AI…

Dec 11, 2024 By FedScoop Staff

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

Senior Airman Christopher Smith, 56th Operations Support Squadron Weather Flight journeyman, reviews a forecast at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Feb. 14, 2019. Weather supports flying units by providing Mission Execution Forecasts, detailed descriptions of the weather conditions for a specific mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Leala Marquez)

OPM: All federal employees in DC area must leave office by 3 p.m. as storm approaches

OPM said federal employees will receive weather and safety leave to commute home safely and then resume work.

Aug 7, 2023 By Nihal Krishan

Air Force awards $630M contract to move weather forecasting to the cloud

The Air Force issued a major contract to modernize it's weather forecasting and shift to a "software-centric, cloud-based" approach.

Jun 26, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

NOAA unmanned Z-Boat — Lt. Joseph Carrier, operations officer on the NOAA ship *Thomas Jefferson*, deploys an unmanned Z-Boat from the ship in 2015. (NOAA)

New unmanned systems program at NOAA will focus on cybersecurity, acquisition process

While use of "UxS" vehicles by air and sea isn't new, NOAA's reliance on them has increased tenfold since 2012.

Apr 2, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

New NOAA system creates high-res weather ‘mesh’ for forecasters

NOAA scientists work on the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor system at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. (Credit: NOAA) It’s one thing to collect a massive amount of data, which…

Oct 14, 2014