The system is critical for weather forecasters to access weather data from satellites, radar surface stations and computer models and to issue weather warnings. More recently, A data center at Texas A and M was shut down for several days because of bottlenecks in the department's contracting process. depriving Texas emergency and water managers of of critical drought forecasts that help them manage reservoirs and track storm surge data and hurricane forecasts in real time. (00:40–00:49)
CLAIM
Asserts that a Texas A&M data center was shut down due to contracting process bottlenecks.
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