The Department of Commerce and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Water Prediction recently awarded the Next Generation Water Prediction Capability contract to Raytheon, an RTX Business. The $80 million, four-year contract aims to transform water prediction by enabling rapid deployment of advanced water models to provide coupled, continental scale, operational coastal and inland flood forecasting and inundation mapping services.
The contract is for the development of two capabilities:A new Water Resources Modeling framework supporting future versions of the National Water Model with state-of-the-science hydrologic and hydraulic model formulations, and
Near real-time, high spatial resolution flood inundation maps and services for nearly
