HPE, Aruba & Juniper IT Procurement for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a science-focused agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland. NOAA's mission is to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, ocean, and coasts, and to share that knowledge to protect lives, property, and the environment. It carries out that mission through line offices including the National Weather Service (NWS), the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the National Ocean Service (NOS), and the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR).

Few civilian agencies are as compute- and data-intensive as NOAA. Operational weather and climate forecasting depend on some of the most demanding high-performance computing in government, running numerical models that ingest enormous volumes of satellite, radar, buoy, and observational data. NESDIS operates environmental satellite ground systems and vast data archives, while OAR laboratories and cooperative institutes sustain advanced research computing. Across these missions, high-throughput networking, resilient storage, and modernized data center infrastructure are recurring, mission-critical requirements.

NOAA also maintains a highly distributed footprint: more than 100 NWS Weather Forecast Offices and River Forecast Centers, research labs in cities such as Boulder, Seattle, Miami, and Norman, fisheries science centers along every U.S. coast, and satellite operations facilities. Connecting these sites reliably and securely, modernizing aging campus and lab networks, and consolidating data center hardware are central to NOAA's IT roadmap. Uniqcli supports these efforts with vetted HPE, Aruba, and Juniper solutions sourced through compliant federal contract vehicles.