Abstract: The NASA representative to the Unidata Strategic Committee presented a semiannual update on NASAs work with and use of Unidata technologies. The talk updated Unidata on the program of cloud computing prototypes underway for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Also discussed was a trade study on the use of the Open source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) with Web Object Storage in the cloud.