For more than 37 years George Blaisdell served as a civil servant providing snow and ice technical expertise to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs (NSF/OPP). After a truly rewarding career, George retired in 2016. But George wasn’t done. In 2021, George joined Centuria to support the McMurdo station sea-ice runway in Antarctica. Recently returning from his 35th field deployment to Antarctica where he performed glacier snow and ice studies for the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs. These studies are critical in ensuring the continued ability and reliability of the runway to support wheeled aircraft as large as the 500,000lb C-17 Globemaster. Using his extensive experience from other cold weather region activities in support of U.S. and allied interests in Alaska and Greenland where George endured extreme weather conditions in remote environments under demanding time schedules, George was able to test hypothesis in real-time field conditions gaining insight into the condition, stability, and continued relevancy of this critical national asset. 

Centuria Corporation (Centuria) is proud to announce that they have been awarded the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Radar Operations Center (ROC) Mission Support Services (RMSS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). The RMSS BPA will provide multidisciplinary technical, engineering, management, and other professional support services required to optimize the operations, maintenance, and sustainment (OM&S) of the Weather Surveillance Radar – 1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) Next-Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) network at 158 CONUS, OCONUS, and overseas locations. Centuria was selected for their expertise in providing systems/security/radar engineering, documentation, software engineering, information technology (IT), test bed, hotline, integrated logistics, configuration management (CM), and program management support for operational weather radar systems. Centuria’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Rakesh Patel, noted, “The RMSS BPA award extends Centuria’s support for the ROC and NEXRAD network to over two decades. We are honored to be selected to continue in this important role supporting NOAA’s mission that underpins the Nation’s weather enterprise.” Centuria’s RMSS Program Manager (PM), Ryan Groce, continued “Centuria understands the ROC and the ROC understands Centuria and the experience and institutional knowledge of NEXRAD we bring. We look forward to continuing to support the ROC and NEXRAD Program as the [WSR-] 88D moves through a critical phase of its lifecycle and to ensuring the network’s ability to meet the observational needs of the forecast and research communities.” ABOUT CENTURIA Recognized by the Washington Post as a Top Workplace, Centuria is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and a registered ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 20000-1:2018, CMMI Level 3-assessed, and CMMC Level 2-certified company. Since 2002, Centuria has been delivering Information Technology, Engineering, Scientific and Managed Services to the Federal Government. Centuria offers technical and scientific expertise in information technology, aerospace, meteorology, radar, and defense systems and has earned the trust and respect of our clients through a mission-oriented and service-first approach. Centuria is headquartered in Reston, VA, with offices in Rochester, NY.