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$111,626,905

Department of Commerce·National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

to GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

weather-climateactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-10-14·LATEST ACTION2026-04-20·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_1305M424F0236_1330_1305M420DNWWX0076_1330
Award description

TO ACQUIRE THE PHASE 1 CONTINUED OPERATIONS, PART 1: FACILITIES AND UTILITIES FOR PHASE 1 MANAGED SERVICE SOLUTION FOR WEATHER AND CLIMATE OPERATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING (WCOSS2) IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ATTACHED PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS), DATED SEP

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Continued operations and facilities support for NOAA's Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing (WCOSS2) system through 2028.

Sub-sectors
noaa-supercomputingweather-operationsfacilities-utilities
Why this matters

WCOSS2 powers U.S. weather forecasting and climate modeling; this 2024-launched contract ensures uninterrupted operational infrastructure for critical national weather services.

Supply-chain signal

General Dynamics IT manages compute facilities and utilities for NOAA's primary supercomputing backbone; disruption would cascade across all U.S. weather prediction and climate research.

U.S.–China competition angle

Advanced weather and climate modeling capability is strategically important; reliable domestic supercomputing infrastructure reduces dependence on foreign compute resources.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-27. Cost: $0.003096.

Period of performance
Start
2024-10-14
End
2028-02-13
Status
activein 593 days
Sources

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