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March 30, 2010 – Honeywell announced that it has been awarded a $49 million contract to upgrade the National Weather Service's radar wind profiler network that will predict severe storms earlier and provide the public with more accurate warnings of upcoming storms. "For nearly two decades, ground weather radar improvements have been mostly incremental - yet weather patterns and storms around the globe have become more severe," said Vince Trim, president, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. "Honeywell is building a ground radar wind profiler network that can predict severe storms earlier and more reliably while better able to withstand hurricane force winds year after year." |
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Honeywell's work on the production
phase of the Next Generation National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Profiler Network contract includes upgrading
the NOAA network of wind profilers that provide upper air wind data
for crucial weather forecasting tasks.
The NOAA Profiler Network has been operating
continuously since 1992 and the equipment is now unsupportable.
Honeywell's solution, which includes upgrades to the antenna, RF
hardware, signal processing, networking, and other system components
will provide the technology improvements to bring the profiler network
up to a supportable, maintainable, and reliable level. Honeywell, which has a long history of building and
operating ground and space networks for NASA, the Department of Defense
and other government agencies, began building a prototype system in May
2009. Based
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