Ball Aerospace engineers and technicians perform final checks in August 2017 on the JPSS-1 weather satellite — now known as NOAA 20 — in the cleanroom prior to shipment to Vandenberg Air Force Base. (NOAA Satellites / Flickr) Automation hasn’t required high-end hardware in one NOAA office A one-man show overseeing the agency's administrative local area network has automated basic IT processes on a tight budget. Nov 12, 2019 By Dave Nyczepir