Key facts
- A federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration's effort to revoke NCAR's supercomputer access.
- The ruling allows NCAR to continue using its supercomputing facilities.
- NCAR is managed by UCAR for the National Science Foundation.
- The Trump administration had ordered UCAR to prepare to transfer the Wyoming supercomputing facility.
- UCAR sued the government and won a preliminary injunction.
A federal judge, R. Brooke Jackson, has temporarily halted an effort by the Trump administration to revoke the supercomputer access of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR, based in Boulder, Colorado, is a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center managed by the University Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) for the National Science Foundation. In December, the administration ordered UCAR to prepare to transfer the supercomputing facility in Wyoming to a different operator. UCAR subsequently sued the government, and on Monday, obtained a preliminary injunction that places the transfer on hold, allowing NCAR to continue its research into weather, climate, and atmospheric chemistry.