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A swirling cloud representing the eye of a hurricane sits above a map with blue for ocean and green for land.

SBIR Success Story: Single-flight drones brave the birthplace of tropical storms

Dragoon Technology, LCC builds single-use, long-lasting drones that can collect data on the birth of tropical storms with support from the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research program.

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SBIR Success Story: Smart Buoys help prevent ‘ghost gear’ in the open ocean

Blue Ocean Gear, a California-based small business, is a company the develops and sells Smart Buoys – intelligent, connected fishing buoys that allow users to track the exact location and movement of their fishing gear. 

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NOAA and Google team up to advance the use of AI hurricane and tropical weather forecast models

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) and Google LLC are teaming up to maximize the benefits of a new artificial intelligence (AI) weather forecast model to advance NOAA’s mission to save lives, mitigate property loss and improve the nation’s economy by issuing the best forecasts of hurricanes and other hazardous tropical weather.

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NOAA partners with Brightband to make observational data AI-ready

NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory and Global Systems Laboratory and the artificial intelligence startup Brightband have entered into a two-year Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) that will optimize a vast NOAA-managed archive of observational weather data for training artificial intelligence (AI)-based weather forecasting applications.

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