I take this opportunity to express NCEI's thanks to the entire NCIS team for their support of a successful NCEI Climate Monitoring Global Processing Project. Special recognition goes to GAMA-1's Matt Page. Matt's exemplary responsiveness to our team's needs and his top-notch expertise were core to the project's success. He really sets the bar on first-class service quality delivery!

I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for GAMA-1's Cloud Architect, Gian Dilawari's exceptional leadership and communication skills in closing out the assigned accounts. Your proactive approach to ensure each customer was informed and had taken all necessary steps to protect their data, codes, and other vital project elements was outstanding and greatly appreciated. Thank you for coordinating seamlessly with the team and leading the charge in my absence. Your dedication and professionalism have made a significant impact.

Award - GAMA-1 members of the NESDIS Cross Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Sensor Data Record (SDR) team were recognized with the prestigious Unseen Hero Award. This award, one of the esteemed internal recognitions approved by the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Awards Board, highlights the exceptional contributions of individuals who have gone above and beyond in their support of the LEO Program.

Josh Brady received the Outstanding Teamwork Award. This award recognized the teamwork to produce the 2023 JPSS Annual Science Digest. The Digest is an annual publication of key topics and findings related to JPSS/LEO data, algorithms and products. GAMA-1's Josh Brady and team worked closely together for several months in order to organize, write, layout, design, and publish the - JPSS Annual Science Digest

Thank you for demoing Algorithm Orchestration (AO) in today's Large Solution I&A! The demo was smooth, and feedback was very positive. The team put a lot of work over a short time to ensure that AO was ready to show off. I appreciate it, and I'm excited to see how AO continues to mature. Thank you!

NASA presented the Group Achievement Award to the NASA-NOAA Interagency Connection Team for pioneering vision, leadership, and innovative efforts to successfully establish NASA/NOAA “Inter-Agency Connection. GAMA-1 played a crucial technical advisory role within the NASA-NOAA Interagency Connect Team.

The GIS team successfully migrated our ESRI-based GIS Web services from on-prem to cloud infrastructure today. This was a huge effort and a great success story for cloud migration.  The initial development of cloud-based services to the sunsetting of legacy services took 18 months. Great job, team!

Thanks all for your efforts in keeping the NWS Dissemination Cloud running like a well-oiled machine. All the users of these applications, making decisions to save lives and property, are grateful (whether they understand your part in this or not).

Acknowledging the outstanding contributions and dedicated efforts of our team in managing the preventative maintenance of the infrastructure supporting their spaces and systems. This recognition is a testament to the unwavering commitment and expertise that each of you brings to the table. Your dedication, professionalism, and talent have been the driving force behind our success in making a positive impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of not only NWS operations, but also the day to day mission critical operations supporting all of NOAA.

During the course of the unprecedented health crisis from the Coronavirus pandemic, SAB rapidly adapted its operations to a 24/7 remote work operation to ensure the safety of staff members and staff members' families. During the past 18 months, SAB has successfully conducted remote operations for all product areas with no degradation in service. GAMA-1's Chezburt Carter has been instrumental in supporting SAB operations by making himself available at all times, including during off-hours, to ensure no interruption of mission-critical products.

I would like to nominate Sergio Rodriguez as NOAA Team Member of the Month. During the unprecedented COVID-19 response over the past 12 months, Sergio led his team to commit to the IT Security work at NOAA with a fresh shine. Under his watchful leadership, his team worked many special assignments preforming in-depth technical security assessments of the National Weather Service (NWS) most critical systems including the supercomputers that run operational models, Tsunami Warning, Forecast Centers, and several large geographic regions. Sergio and team helped to support and pioneer secure onboarding of cloud systems to the NWS cloud FISMA boundary, allowing for agility and attention to FedRAMP controls.

Congratulations to each of you for being selected as the 2024 NESDIS Collaboration Award recipients! This prestigious recognition highlights the agility, innovation, and dedication you demonstrated in delivering a successful archive migration solution, with about 84% of the NCEI-CO archive data already transferred to the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF). Your leadership and teamwork have truly set a high standard within NESDIS and NOAA.

GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC has some of the brightest talent, solving some of the most complex challenges relating to computing, networking, and storage. They are a go-to partner for high-performance computing, large-scale storage, and highly available networking. They have created in-house solutions, solutions with AWS, and migrating old government systems into the cloud. While demonstrating cost savings with containers and high performance computing job management in AWS. As well as, showing that it can scale to not only support massive amounts of weather data but also algorithms from different projects

I have been working from home for three weeks now, and have come to see this as the new normal mode of operation. Part of that new normal is not even noticing how seamlessly I have been able to stay connected and work with anyone I need to in NESDIS, in NOAA, and with our external partners. That doesn’t happen without the outstanding work our fantastic team in the CIO office has done to make this work. You guys are, without a doubt, the shining stars making it possible for us all to stay engaged, productive, and connected to our customers. I know this is possible because you have been working on this for years, preparing us all for lots of different contingency and operations scenarios.

This DOC Professional Excellence Kudos Award presented to, Ingrid Ramos-Guasp, is in recognition of your superior contributions as a member of the NOAA Public Access to Research Results Working Group. I wish to take a moment to thank each of the members of the NOAA PARR Working Group for your dedication, creativity, and expertise in developing a new NOAA Administrative Order 205-18 that will advance and promote Open Science for our agency. This NAO will move us toward making NOAA publications and data more freely available to the public, and will help NOAA commit to long-term scientific transparency, traceability, and accountability. This effort will have a strong positive impact on NOAA for years to come! As the NOAA Chief Data Officer, I want to thank you for your ongoing commitment to our NOAA Data Community.