WindBorne wins nearly $50m US Air Force data contract
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On 13 October 2026, TechCrunch reported that the US Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems' fleet of autonomous weather balloons, under a contract worth up to $49m, with $1.7m already ordered. The contract was awarded without competition and is the largest single contract WindBorne has held. According to the report, WindBorne currently flies around 700 weather balloons worldwide, and its data is also used to train its own AI weather forecasting model, WeatherMesh 6.
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- TechCrunch · AIWindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
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