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The U.S. Air Force entered discussions with NOAA in 2017 about the possibility of taking over one of NOAA’s GOES satellites.
NOAA expects to award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts in mid-November with data delivery to start on 2020-12-01.
The NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture study completed in 2018 concluded that NOAA should rely on a hybrid architecture that includes both government satellites and commercial data where commercial data is available and meets NOAA’s requirements and mission needs.
The 2016 Commercial Weather Data Pilot culminated in June with a report concluding that the commercial sector is capable of providing the quality of data needed to help support NOAA’s operational weather forecasting needs.
NOAA used a Commercial Weather Data Pilot program in 2016 to evaluate commercial radio occultation data provided by private companies.
NOAA published specifications on 2020-08-04 for the first radio occultation data delivery order calling for companies to deliver 500 daily radio occultation soundings for 30 consecutive days.
NOAA invited companies to submit proposals within 30 days of 2020-08-04 to offer radio occultation data under two-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity orders.
General Atomics won a $37,900,000 contract in 2018 to fly NOAA’s Argos Advanced Data Collection System on the third Orbital Test Bed.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems won a $37,900,000 contract in 2018 to fly the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Argos Advanced Data Collection System on the third Orbital Test Bed.
NOAA found little evidence of foreign systems providing imagery of Israel at resolutions sharper than 0.4 m.
Since 1998 NOAA has interpreted the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment to mean images of Israel with a resolution no sharper than 2 m, a limit reviewed and upheld by NOAA in 2018.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will reduce the resolution limit on satellite imagery of Israel from 2 m to 0.4 m.
The bill includes $1,800,000 for the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The bill includes $1,800,000 for the Office of Space Commerce within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The bill provides an additional $2,678,000 for purchasing commercial satellite weather data compared with last year's bill, while NOAA had sought a $5,000,000 increase for that program in its proposal.
NOAA forecasters predicting an active 2020 hurricane season are refining storm track and intensity forecasts using data from multiple satellites including COSMIC-2.
NOAA upgraded its Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting computer model for the 2020 hurricane season to ingest data from GOES-16 and GOES-17 as well as NOAA-20, Suomi NPP, Himawari-8, Metop spacecraft, and COSMIC-2.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center forecast that three to six storms in the 2020 season are likely to produce winds of at least 179 km per hour, making them major hurricanes.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center forecast six to 10 hurricanes with winds of at least 119 km per hour for the 2020 season, which runs from 2020-06-01 through 2020-11-30.
UCAR is responsible for processing and disseminating COSMIC-2 data and is required to deliver COSMIC-2 observations to NOAA forecasters within 45 minutes.