NOAA Awards $3.7M Contract to Spire for Enhanced Weather Satellite Data
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a **$3.7 million** contract to **Spire Global, Inc.** for enhanced satellite weather data. This marks NOAA's first procurement focused on GNSS radio occultation with temporal resolution enhancements, indicative of a shift towards greater reliance on commercial satellite data to improve weather forecasting accuracy.