Resilience
Research Supercomputing
Agency NameDepartment of Commerce
Funding Amount$80,000,000.00
Bureau Name
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Funding Mechanism
Contract, Cooperative Agreement
New?
No
Funding Mechanism
Contract, Cooperative Agreement
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
3 years
Recipients
Public Higher-Ed Institutions, Federal Partners, Businesses
Program Description
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Research and Development High Performance Computing funds will be used to provide computational resources to support and advance environmental modeling crucial for understanding critical Earth systems.
Eligible Uses
The research supercomputing plan will be prioritized across the focus areas of weather and climate model development to improve drought, flood, and wildfire prediction, detection, and forecasting. Funds will support high performance computing systems, associated storage devices, advanced data communications hardware and software engineering services, security, and necessary data center space.
sam.gov link
https://sam.gov/fal/c401df859cf1424aa4c0e9c791ba57f9/view
Statutory Location
Division J, Title II
Federal Cost Share Requirement
No non-Federal cost share required