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Lockheed Martin to Build Digital Twin for NOAA With NVIDIA

By Rachel Jewett

Thursday, November 17th, 2022

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Lockheed Martin to Build Digital Twin for NOAA With NVIDIA

Lockheed Martin and NVIDIA to build Digital Twin for NOAA. Photo: NVIDIA

Lockheed Martin [LMT] will work with computing company NVIDIA to build a digital twin of global weather events for theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which the companies say will help NOAA address scientific challenges. Lockheed Martin received a contract to develop an Earth Observations Digital Twin, which will help NOAA monitor current global environmental conditions, including extreme weather events. It will include data from satellite and ground-based observations. Lockheed Martin will use its OpenRosetta3D platform and NVIDIA will contribute its Omniverse…

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