By Ross Wilkers,
Senior Staff Reporter

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration needs more computing resources for its scientific research and data collection work.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has taken step number one in its plan to acquire commercial cloud computing resources that would be available at all of the agency’s organizational levels.

In a sources sought notice posted Wednesday, NOAA is emphasizing its desire for a multi-vendor cloud solution that “must be a direct contract with” the providers of said infrastructure.

NOAA plans to go down the path of a multiple-award contract in order to make that happen. The NOAA Cloud Acquisition is being called NCloud.

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