The Defense Department has backtracked on a plan to shut down a key source of satellite weather data, announcing that the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center will maintain its distribution of data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program beyond Thursday, The Hill reported.
The reversal comes after mounting backlash from government partners and meteorologists who warned of potential consequences to public safety and national defense.
“The meteorology and oceanography center had planned to phase out the data as part of a Defense Department modernization effort,” Navy spokesperson Ferry Gene Baylon said in a statement.
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