NOAA Issues 2025 RFI on Commercial Space Capabilities
Responses Due Before April 15, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. ET
NOAA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting information on commercial satellite environmental data and related capabilities available in the FY2026 through FY2032 timeframe that are currently on-orbit or planned to be on-orbit.
Responses to this RFI will be used to inform NOAA’s Commercial Data Program (CDP) of the industry capabilities for Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) projects, operational data purchases, and other applications in the areas of terrestrial weather and space weather. NOAA may use the results of the RFI in future Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
NOAA is interested in commercially-provided data and related capabilities to augment NOAA’s capabilities in these areas:
Atmosphere
Cryosphere
Land and Surface Hydrology
Oceans, Freshwater, and Coasts
Space
NOAA is also interested in GNSS radio occultation capabilities, especially low latency, highly accurate GNSS-RO-derived Ionospheric products such as total electron content (TEC) and scintillation.
NOAA’s Commercial Data Program (CDP) successfully engages with the commercial sector through pilots and acquisition of operational satellite data-as-a-service for commercial data to help improve weather forecasts and provide risk reduction to the overall observing system.
The program includes two lines of effort: Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) demonstrations of the quality and impact of commercial data on weather forecast models; and Commercial Data Purchase in support of operational weather forecasting.