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Precision from propellers: How NOAA aircraft collect data above, around and in a hurricane
Hunting for hurricane data above, around and in the storm requires the right equipment–and NOAA has it.
NOAA’s Uncrewed Systems Operations Center expands environmental observation footprint
In 2025, NOAA’s Uncrewed Systems Operations Center funded six projects totaling roughly $10.1 million to increase the reliability, capacity, efficiency and safety of NOAA missions through the use of uncrewed systems.
Aircraft and uncrewed systems team up to forecast, study tropical cyclones, setting new records
Specialized scientific tools, whether aboard or deployed from an aircraft, or on the water, collected important data and set new records.
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Survey area for Mapping and Exploration Data Collection for Ocean Exploration in the Remote Pacific U.S. EEZ of the Marianas Islands, one of the six accepted projects.
NOAA Corps billet locations.
Front row (left to right): Lt.j.g. Garett Smith, Lt. Cmdr. Dylan Kosten, Cmdr. Christopher Skapin, Lt.
Recovery of passive acoustic monitor-equipped gliders for marine mammal assessments off Hawaii.
A pilot operates a DriX at sea.
Map of planned operations during the 2024 Dual DriX Project.