Niyam IT, a provider of Geospatial Intelligence, Data & AI, Cloud and Engineered Solutions, and Digital Modernization services to the federal government, today announced it has been awarded a sole-source contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide NEXRAD site analysis in support of spectrum management, policy, and commercial cellular integration. The award falls under NOAA's Radar Next program, the agency's initiative to modernize the nation's aging weather radar network.
LEESBURG, Va., Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Niyam IT Secures NOAA NEXRAD Spectrum Management Support Contract
Contract Supports Site and Spectrum Assessments Across NOAA's National Weather Radar Network
Niyam IT, a provider of Geospatial Intelligence, Data & AI, Cloud and Engineered Solutions, and Digital Modernization services to the federal government, today announced it has been awarded a sole-source contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide NEXRAD site analysis in support of spectrum management, policy, and commercial cellular integration. The award falls under NOAA's Radar Next program, the agency's initiative to modernize the nation's aging weather radar network.
Under the contract, Niyam will analyze NOAA's NEXRAD infrastructure, the network of 158 S-band Doppler weather radars that has anchored U.S. severe weather warnings since the 1990s, as NOAA works to repurpose 500 MHz of federal spectrum, including the 2.69 to 2.9 GHz band used by NEXRAD, for commercial licensed use. Successfully freeing this spectrum is expected to expand the nation's capacity for next-generation wireless services, including the commercial 6G auction under consideration for this band, a public benefit that depends on getting the underlying site and interference analysis right. Niyam will deliver spectrum baseline analysis and physical site viability assessments across NOAA's priority NEXRAD sites nationwide, giving the National Weather Service the data it needs to determine which sites can safely accommodate new infrastructure and which require relocation, without compromising the forecasting capability that keeps communities safe from tornadoes, hurricanes, and flash floods.
Supporting a National Modernization Effort
NOAA's Radar Next program materials identify radar site analysis and assessment as a near-term milestone on the path toward the next generation of weather radar, alongside spectrum interference mitigation as one of the program's core design drivers. That work is now underway under this contract: a site-by-site, spectrum-by-spectrum baseline of the network NOAA will build on as the broader Radar Next effort moves through design, production, and deployment over the next decade.
Niyam's Geospatial Intelligence practice is anchored by its GeoCube and SPHERE solution accelerators. GeoCube fuses geospatial, sensor, operational, and open-source data into a single cloud-native analytics environment, giving agency decision-makers one common operating picture instead of a patchwork of disconnected feeds. The practice has already delivered measurable results for federal clients including DHS FEMA from unifying 80-plus data sources into a single real-time operating picture for FEMA's National Business Emergency Operations Center to assessing 800,000 urban structures for flood risk in under 8 seconds for DHS. That same geospatial, data, and AI capability set now underpins Niyam's work mapping the nation's weather radar footprint.
"Radar Next will shape how the nation sees and responds to severe weather for decades," said Suman Biswas, CEO of Niyam IT. "We built our geospatial and spectrum practice to operate at exactly this scale, and this contract lets us put that expertise directly into NOAA's hands at the ground level, where a program's success is ultimately decided."
"This work puts us inside the site-by-site, spectrum-by-spectrum picture NOAA needs before a single new radar goes in the ground," said Casey Zuzak, Niyam IT's NOAA Account Manager. "That kind of ground-truth data has to be right before a program of this scale can move forward, and we intend to be the team that gets it right."
About Niyam IT
Founded in 2007, Niyam IT is a trusted technology partner to the U.S. federal government, delivering mission-critical solutions in Geospatial Intelligence, Data & AI, Cloud and Engineered Solutions, and Digital Modernization to agencies including NOAA, FEMA, CBP, TSA, the U.S. Secret Service, and NARA. Niyam holds CMMI DEV Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 20000-1, ISO/IEC 27001, and CMMC Level 2 certifications, and has been recognized as a Washington Post Top Workplace and a four-time Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Company honoree.
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