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$44,641,320

Department of Commerce·National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

to SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

weather-climateexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2022 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2022-07-01·LATEST ACTION2026-02-24·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_1305L422FNEEG0053_1330_1305L419ANAAJ0008_1330
Award description

CLOUD UTILITY SERVICES

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Modification to NOAA's cloud utility services contract (began 2022) supporting weather forecasting and climate research infrastructure.

Sub-sectors
noaa-operational-cloudweather-forecasting-computeclimate-research-infrastructure
Why this matters

Critical infrastructure for real-time weather forecasting and climate modeling that supports public safety, disaster response, and climate understanding.

Supply-chain signal

SAIC systems integration likely involves AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud services; signals ongoing federal IT modernization toward commercial cloud platforms.

U.S.–China competition angle

Supports U.S. weather and climate infrastructure resilience by maintaining domestic cloud-based systems independent of foreign cloud dependencies.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-12. Cost: $0.013513.

Period of performance
Start
2022-07-01
End
2025-06-30
Status
expired378 days ago
Sources

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