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Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309218012 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 120
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The Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR) of the National Weather Service (NWS) was a large and complex re-engineering of a federal agency. The process lasted a decade and cost an estimated $4.5 billion. The result was greater integration of science into weather service activities and improved outreach and coordination with users of weather information. The MAR created a new, modernized NWS, and, significantly, it created a framework that will allow the NWS to keep up with technological changes in a more evolutionary manner. The MAR was both necessary and generally well executed. However, it required revolutionary, often difficult, changes. The procurement of large, complex technical systems presented challenges in and of itself. The MAR also affected the career paths and personal lives of a large portion of the field office workforce. The MAR created a new, modernized NWS, and, significantly, it created a framework that will allow the NWS to keep up with technological changes in a more evolutionary manner. The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring presents the first comprehensive assessment of the execution of the MAR and its impact on the provision of weather services in the United States. This report provides an assessment that addresses the past modernization as well as lessons learned to support future improvements to NWS capabilities.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 13
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We appreciate the opportunity to join in today's hearing to discuss our work in two areas that are the responsibility of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). At your request, we will discuss the status of the National Weather Service (NWS) systems modernization and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) program. In brief, although NWS is nearing completion of its systems modernization effort, it still faces important challenges. During the coming year, NWS plans to finish commissioning' the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS), the final system of the modernization. At the same time, NWS is developing additional AWIPS system capabilities to be implemented in the future. According to NWS, these additional capabilities are needed for AWIPS to improve radar and satellite data processing and to provide weather forecasters with a full range of interactive forecasting techniques. The agency is also developing a systems architecture to provide a blueprint for future systems acquisitions. Regarding the GOES program, NOAA continues to deploy weather satellites to ensure adequate satellite coverage. However, because of unexpected problems, satellite coverage is currently at risk and will remain so until a new satellite is successfully launched. NOAA plans to launch the new satellite in May 2000. To ensure continued satellite coverage beyond the current satellite series, NOAA is planning for the program's near- and long-term future. The approach we used to perform this work-our objectives, scope, and methodology-are provided in appendix I.
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Weather Service Modernization Publisher: ISBN: Category : Government publications Languages : en Pages : 96
Author: Committee on the Assessment of the National Weather Service's Modernization Program Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309259738 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 110
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During the 1980s and 1990s, the National Weather Service (NWS) undertook a major program called the Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR). The MAR was officially completed in 2000. No comprehensive assessment of the execution of the MAR plan, or comparison of the promised benefits of the MAR to its actual impact, had ever been conducted. Therefore, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to conduct an end-to-end assessment. That report, The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring: A Retrospective Assessment, concluded that the MAR was a success. Now, twelve years after the official completion of the MAR, the challenges faced by the NWS are no less important than those of the pre-MAR era. The three key challenges are: 1) Keeping Pace with accelerating scientific and technological advancement, 2) Meeting Expanding and Evolving User Needs in an increasingly information centric society, and 3) Partnering with an Increasingly Capable Enterprise that has grown considerably since the time of the MAR. Weather Services for the Nation presents three main recommendations for responding to these challenges. These recommendations will help the NWS address these challenges, making it more agile and effective. This will put it on a path to becoming second to none at integrating advances in science and technology into its operations and at meeting user needs, leading in some areas and keeping pace in others. It will have the highest quality core capabilities among national weather services. It will have a more agile organizational structure and workforce that allow it to directly or indirectly reach more end-users, save more lives, and help more businesses. And it will have leveraged these capabilities through the broader enterprise. This approach will make possible societal benefits beyond what the NWS budget alone allows.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Space Publisher: ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 304
Author: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Publisher: ISBN: Category : Meteorological instruments Languages : en Pages : 502
Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Author: National Research Council
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Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Weather Service Modernization
Author: Committee on the Assessment of the National Weather Service's Modernization Program
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Space
Author: United States. National Weather Service
Author: United States. National Weather Service
Author: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)