Yehuda Bock and his IGPP collaborators Adrian Borsa, Yuri Fialko, Jamin Greenbaum, Matthew Mazloff, Robert Mellors, Mark Merrifield, David Sandwell, Mark Zumberge, were among five competitors awarded NOAA's Geospatial Modeling Grant. The group's project "NSRS Intra-Frame Deformation Model and New SIO Geodesy Program," aims to create a formal geodesy program in support of the nationwide deficiency of geodesists and to modernize geodetic models for the NSRS.