The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has received a last-minute reprieve to stave off the cancellation of a contract by the federal government that would have forced some websites to shut down at midnight Friday, Axios has reported.

In February, the Commerce Department required NOAA to trim its information technology budget by half. The resulting cuts were to primarily affect cloud services and agency networks that transmit weather and climate information.

Before Friday’s reprieve, websites in NOAA’s research division, such as the National Severe Storms Laboratory, the Climate Program Office, the home website of NOAA research and the Earth Prediction Innovation Center were some of the websites in danger of going dark, Bloomberg first reported.

Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.