Who won: Space Weather R20 Maintenance - University of Birmingham

A services contract from Met Office. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

Met Office

Published

9 October 2026

About this contract

Ongoing delivery of the Advanced Ensemble Networked Environment Assimilative System (AENEAS) model input datasets Integration of ODRAM version 2.2 Orbit Propagator to be supplied Improvements to AENEAS "health" routines Support for PS48 implementation issues Validation and verification Exploratory work on the assimilation of thermospheric densities into AENEAS Customer engagement activity requirements

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