The US Ocean Enterprise, a thriving ecosystem of businesses connected to ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes monitoring, generates approximately $16.4 billion in revenue annually, according to NOAA's newly released US Ocean Enterprise in 2025 report. This wide-ranging report identified more than 1,800 US businesses engaged in the Ocean Enterprise, an increase of 75 percent since 2020.

Since 2015, NOAA’s US Integrated Ocean Observing System has conducted the study every five years to assess the size and scope of the private and not-for-profit businesses that support observation, measurement, and forecasting of the ocean.…