Axios: NOAA Research Sites To Go Offline Tonight

Axios reports:

The early cancellation of an Amazon Web Services contract means that a slew of NOAA websites are slated to go dark beginning at midnight, sources told Axios. This mainly would affect NOAA’s research division, and will make numerous websites and data sets inaccessible to the public.

It’s another example of how the administration has been taking data offline across the government, said current and former NOAA staff members, who spoke to Axios on the condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation.

The Commerce Department is requiring NOAA — and possibly all department agencies — to cut its IT budget by 50% across the board. This is resulting in cloud services contracts being cut — and, potentially more significantly, agency networks that transmit weather and climate information.

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Slew of NOAA websites set to go dark at midnight tonight due to a canceled cloud services contract. NOAA under pressure to cut its IT costs by 50%… https://t.co/dctPAtSOah

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