NWS awards radar upgrade
RS Information Systems Inc. wins $29 million, fouryear contract in support of weather radar system
The National Weather Service has awarded a contract for upgrading its Doppler weather radar system.
NWS selected RS Information Systems Inc., McLean, Va., for the $29 million, four-year systems engineering and development contract in support of the Next Generation Weather Radar's (NEXRAD) Open Radar Data Acquisition System.
The weather service and RSIS will design, develop, test and deploy a systems upgrade to NEXRAD radar at 184 sites across the country, RSIS officials said. Those sites are used to provide advance warnings of severe weather to the public and media outlets.
Most of the work will be done at the weather service's offices in Norman, Okla.
Subcontractors on the project include SI International Inc., Mercury Computer Systems Inc. and Sigmet Radar Data Systems Inc.
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