United States, March 27 -- Accenture Federal Services (AFS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, has been selected to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) replacement of Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) with NWS HIVE (Hydrometeorological Interactive Virtual Environment). Under the contract, Accenture Federal Services will help modernize and operate NWS HIVE-the mission critical system used by NOAA forecasters nationwide to generate and disseminate weather, water, and climate forecasts and warnings that protect lives, property, and the U.S. economy.NWS HIVE supports a complex ecosystem of applications, data feeds, and visualization tools that enable NWS ...