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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is looking for public input on its draft strategies for programs involving unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and technologies for analyzing DNA, RNA and other proteins.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded Unisys a potential five-year, $144 million blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to support the agency's transition to the cloud through its Unisys CloudForte solution, Unisys announced on Monday. 

The Senate voted 84-9 Thursday to pass a minibus spending package that allocates a fiscal year 2020 budget of $22.75B for NASA, SpaceNews reported Friday.

NASA and partners have concluded a collaborative satellite mission to measure physical features of the global sea surface. The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission launched in 2008 to measure sea surface height across the globe and ended Oct. 1 this year, the space agency said Friday.

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has awarded Ball Aerospace with the 2020 Award for Outstanding Services by a Corporation for designing and building advanced remote-sensing instruments and spacecraft enabling timely, accurate weather predictions and environmental monitoring to ensure a Weather Ready Nation, the company announced on Tuesday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has collaborated with NASA and an undisclosed company to identify a software fix for spacecraft designed to help scientists predict a solar storm eruption, SpaceNews reported Monday.

The U.S. Air Force will adopt a weather-tracking satellite that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration decommissioned in early 2018 after 10 years on orbit, SpaceNews reported Thursday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a competition to encourage the development of ocean observing platforms that use marine renewable energy.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to solicit for input on geostationary orbit and low Earth orbit observation next month, Space News reported Thursday. The agency will seek out information on instruments and missions that address findings of an existing study to establish a resilient, agile space architecture. 

Richard Haley, chief financial officer at the FBI, has been appointed to serve as the executive assistant director of the agency's information and technology branch. He'll oversee activities across three divisions working to address the FBI's IT requirements worldwide, the agency said Monday. The FBI's information and technology branch employs 1,800 personnel.