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NOAA official honored for oil spill efforts

Amy Merten, spatial data branch chief in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Response and Restoration, is being honored for her efforts at using a new online data system to help clean up in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Tags: amy merten , oil spill , Service to America Medal , technology , best practices

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Disaster response in era of open government

From the data management panel discussion, NOAA's Joseph Klimavicz discussed the agency's response during the Gulf Coast oil spill.

Tags: Joseph Klimavicz , open government , Gov 2.0 , transparency , Gulf Coast oil spill , data management , Dorobek Insider

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NOAA pilots cloud solutions

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NOAA continues cloud pilots

NOAA is going with Google Apps for agency-wide e-mail and collaboration platform for its 25,000 employees, contractors and associates working across the country and around the world. NOAA CIO Joseph Klimavicz explains the process.

Tags: Federal Drive , contracting , industry , technology , cloud computing , Google Apps , CIO , Joe Klimavicz , Suzanne Kubota

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Commerce to buy IT more strategically

CIO Simon Szykman said the department has a goal of $50 million in savings through strategic sourcing and that commodity technology will play a big role in achieving that mark. He said the agency also is looking at expanding NOAA's IT services contract so the rest of the department can use it.

Tags: technology , contracting , Simon Sykman , DoC , policy , Jason Miller , IT purchasing , commodity IT

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NOAA moves to Google Apps

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the largest federal agency to select Google's email system

Tags: technology , cloud computing , Cloud First , Google , Google Apps , GMail

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NOAA's work stretches from theory to reality

Lives depend on NOAA's ability to forecast the weather. Dr. Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center explains how it's done.

Tags: Federal Drive , technology , Gerry Bell

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GOP plan would cut tsunami warning center budget

A spending plan approved by the House would slash funding for a tsunami warning center that issued an alarm after the devastating earthquake in Japan.

Tags: NWS , budget , tsunami warning center , Japan , tsunami

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Scientists hope to learn from solar flare

Joe Kunches, space scientist with the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center

Tags: Joe Kunches , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , Space Weather Prediction Center , solar flare

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WeatherBug fuels NOAA's greenhouse gas data

Data from the Earth Networks Greenhouse Gas Observation Network will be used for scientific research and applications. CEO Bob Marshall tells us about a new partnership with NOAA.

Tags: Federal Drive , technology , Weather Bug , Earth Networks , Bob Marshall

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