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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

Cloud utility services supporting NOAA's weather, climate, and oceanographic data systems and operations.

Sub-sectors
noaa-infrastructurecloud-computingweather-operations
Why this matters

NOAA's cloud infrastructure underpins U.S. weather forecasting, hurricane prediction, and climate monitoring capabilities critical to public safety and national resilience.

Supply-chain signal

Large cloud services contract signals NOAA's continued migration to commercial cloud providers; impacts AWS, Azure, Google Cloud competition for federal weather workloads.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. weather and climate data superiority depends on advanced computing infrastructure; cloud modernization maintains competitive edge in Earth observation and forecasting.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002232.

Period of performance
Start
2022-07-01
End
2025-06-30
Status
expired323 days ago
Sources

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