气象数据初创公司WindBorne Systems获得美国空军一份价值高达4900万美元的合同，用于其自主气象气球舰队采集的大气传感数据1。这是该公司迄今获得的最大单笔合同，目前已确认的订单额为1.7百万美元1。
WindBorne目前运营约700个全球飞行的气象气球1。该公司收集的数据被应用于其自有AI天气预报模型WeatherMesh 6，其预报准确度据称超越欧洲中期天气预报中心的传统模型1。公司联合创始人兼首席技术官Andrey Sushko表示："对于收集全球数据的这种能力，政府认定我们是唯一能够以符合其需求的方式提供的公司"1。该合同采用无竞争性投标方式授予1。
公司CEO John Dean在8月宣布完成3700万美元B轮融资1。同月，该公司成为首个将无动力飞行系统派入台风眼的组织1。
WindBorne Systems, a weather data startup, has won a substantial contract from the US Air Force valued at up to $49 million for atmospheric sensing data collected by its autonomous weather balloon fleet 1. The company has already confirmed an initial order worth $1.7 million as part of this non-competitive contract award 1.
The startup operates approximately 700 weather balloons globally that gather meteorological data 1. According to Andrey Sushko, the company's co-founder and CTO, the government determined that WindBorne is "the only company capable of providing this capability for collecting global data in a manner that meets their requirements" 1. The data collected by these balloons feeds into WeatherMesh 6, WindBorne's proprietary AI weather forecasting model, which the company claims outperforms traditional forecasts from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 1.
This contract represents WindBorne's largest single agreement to date 1. The milestone comes several months after CEO John Dean announced a $37 million Series B funding round in August, and following the company's achievement that same month of becoming the first organization to deploy an unpowered flight system into the eye of a typhoon 1.
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