Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) serves the primary mission to provide the highest quality, most relevant, and timely worldwide meteorology and oceanography support to U.S. and coalition forces from their 24X7 Operations Center.
FNMOC provides support with High Performance Computing (HPC) at all levels of classification, modeling the Global Atmosphere to Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance Standards, provides climatologically support to Naval Operations, and executes Submarine Weather support.
FNMOC is composed of a world-class team of dedicated military and civilian personnel. The team consists of renowned experts in meteorology, oceanography, computer science, and Fleet operations. The team's efforts provide computerized weather and ocean prediction products, weather satellite imagery products and related tactical decision aids and data, supporting virtually every combat platform and weapons system operated by the U.S. Navy.
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