The OSTP announcement also mentioned awards made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to purchase commercial weather data from two companies, GeoOptics and Spire Global. The contracts, with a combined value of a little more than $1 million for a pilot program running through April 2017, were announced Sept. 15.
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