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2	The NWS Roadmap: The Vision America is a Weather-Ready Nation through superior Impact-Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) Our accurate and timely forecasts, warnings, and information save lives and enhance the U.S. economy NOAA/NWS is the authoritative source for Federal, State, and Local Government partners for environmental information
3	The National Dialogue
4	Building A Weather-Ready Nation Provide superior Impact-Based Decision Support Services Utilize our unique relationship with Emergency Management to help them to better prepare our communities for high-impact/extraordinary events Empower our workforce: accessible on-site and through remote technologies Improve our understanding of societal impacts Shift our focus to a services-centric paradigm
5	Moving Forward
6	Schedule - 2011 Initial Roadmap to be completed in October 2011
7	Business Plan
8	Services Plan
9	Services Plan (cont’d) Framework approach vs. a “catalogue of unique services” approach Adoption of NIMS-compliant method for NWS operations Interoperable foundational data sets enable existing and new service sectors IDSS = NWS in 2020
10	Science and Technology Plan
11	S&T Plan (cont’d) Forecast Knowledge Management Platform: New capabilities and enhancements to AWIPS II and CHPS platforms to support future forecasting and IDSS IT: High-performance computing upgrades for operations and research; extensible, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure; discoverable, interoperable data and information Research to Operations (and O2R): Successfully leverage cross-cutting and R2O/O2R efforts
12	Workforce Evolution Plan
13	Pilot Projects A total of nine pilot projects have been planned to support the key concepts of the NWS Roadmap Plans are underway to launch four of them by the end of the calendar year: National Operations Center Regional Operations Center WFO Provision of IDSS in coastal environment WFO provision of IDSS in urban environment
14	National Operations Center Based in NWSHQ Silver Spring Defines the new decision support model Represents the first formal integration of decision support; allows NWS to reach out to external partners to enhance operations during emergencies NWS central point of contact for nationwide, high-impact meteorological and hydrological events on a 16x7 basis with surge capacity to 24x7 as needed.
15	NOC (cont’d) Coordinates NWS resources at the national level. Proactively works in partnership with public affairs and legislative affairs to communicate high-impact weather events. Coordinates with Core Partners’ operations centers to ensure timely, accurate information and decision support.
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19	Anticipated Outcomes Align with NOAA’s long-term goal of a Weather-Ready Nation Better integrate into Core Partners’ response needs Test IDSS concepts in a pilot program Identify societal/economic impacts of our services Better integrate with other NOAA Line Offices Enhance our collaboration with the Weather Enterprise Create a comprehensive agency-wide Quality Management System
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23	Contact Jim O’Sullivan Jim.OSullivan@noaa.gov 301-713-1792 x126
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