# NOAA’s Global Drifter Program Partners with the National Data Buoy Center to Support US Navy-funded Spotter Drifter Deployments

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**July 13, 2020**

NOAA's [Global Ocean Monitoring and Observation Division](https://globalocean.noaa.gov/#:~:text=OUR%20MISSION,ocean's%20role%20in%20environmental%20change.) and [Global Drifter Program](https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/global-drifter-program/) recently extended a helping hand to deploy commercial Spotter drifters, supported by the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research. Shaun Dolk, the manager of the Program's drifter operations center at AOML, saw a unique opportunity to leverage a long-standing partnership with the National Weather Service's [National Data Buoy Center](https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/) to coordinate the Spotter Platform deployments, enhancing the Navy's hurricane forecast modeling capabilities.

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