PMEC and the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory are members of a consortium that has been awarded a $3.6 million grant from the U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The grant, led by Principle Power of Emeryville, CA, will fund DIGIFLOAT, the world’s first digital twin software tailored to floating offshore wind applications. PMEC/UW-APL's role is to provide high-fidelity ocean wave information using arrays of Surface Wave Instrument Float with Tracking (SWIFT) buoys, developed by PMEC’s Jim Thomson and colleagues.