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Naval Oceanographic Office. Homeland Security CAPT Pete Furze 28-29 Nov 01. Committee for Operational Processing Centers. Greetings from COPC. to COPC. HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHIC COORDINATION MEETING. NAVOCEANO hosted meeting on 15-16 October Participants:
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Naval Oceanographic Office Homeland Security CAPT Pete Furze 28-29 Nov 01 Committee for Operational Processing Centers
Greetings from COPC to COPC
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHIC COORDINATION MEETING • NAVOCEANO hosted meeting on 15-16 October • Participants: - Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) - National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Ocean Service (NOS) - NOAA National Environmental Satellite and Data and Information Service (NESDIS) - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Vicksburg • Focus: - Communication - Collaboration - Efficiency
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHIC COORDINATION MEETING • Discussed collaborative approaches to ocean-related Homeland Security issues. • Protection of: - Waterways - Ports - Maritime transportation • Three principal areas of discussion : - Collaborative Survey Operations - Ocean Modeling & Instrumentation - Data Networking, Processing & Storage
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPICCOORDINATION MEETING Working Groups formed in each of the following areas: 1. Collaborative Survey Operations: -- Mine Countermeasures -- Maritime Domain Awareness 2. Modeling and Instrumentation 3. Data Networking, Processing and Storage
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION MEETING Collaborative Survey Operations Working Group Tasks: • Define the actual MCM port collection requirements. • Navy and NOAA to resolve consolidated port list and priorities with Coast Guard input. Coast Guard will coordinate with civil and commercial port authorities. • Define MCM maintenance requirements and develop a resource plan. • Develop operational plan for baseline route surveys.
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION MEETING Collaborative Survey Operations Working Group Accomplishments: • Held meeting 14 Nov. in Wash, D.C. USACE, NOAA, NAVOCEANO, CINCLANTFLT, COMMINEWARCOM, Canadian Navy, and EOD Mobile Unit 7 attended to exchange initial survey technical issues and discuss near-term collaborative survey plans. • Conducting collaborative survey operations in Kings Bay, GA. • Next meeting 11 Dec. to plan joint Norfolk survey.
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPICCOORDINATION MEETING Tasks: Modeling and Instrumentation Working Group • NAVOCEANO will organize a workshop to consider coordination of physical modeling and data needs for Homeland Security to: (1) Share information on operational and quasi-operational physical models for currents, water level, and pollution transport. (2) Discuss continuing approaches to: - Inventory, coordination, and centralized dissemination of model output. - Share model code and outputs. - Compare among model outputs and observations for model validation - Share technical capabilities (e.g. data assimilation techniques). (3) Define R&D requirements needed to transition priority models in geographic areas.
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION MEETING Modeling and InstrumentationWorking Group Accomplishments: • Developed and disseminated Model Inventory template to partners in modeling community. Responses have started coming in. • Planning workshop to be held at NAVO 29-30 Nov. Approximately 20 senior technical representatives will attend from NOAA, USACE, EPA, NAVO, NRL, and others. • Objectives of the workshop include: • - Options for national coordination for hydrodynamic & contaminant fate modeling for 50 ports. - Data requirements to support the above modeling. - Data Networking requirements for real-time data and model product dissemination. - Inventory of existing model implementations and supporting data.
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION MEETING Data Networking, Processing, & Storage Working Group Tasks: (1) Address classification level for this Homeland Security effort. [Recommend Unclassified] (2) Address coordinated contingency response. (3) Interact with customer base (new) to define custom products. (4) All agencies will press their R&D communities to determine what applied science can be rapidly transitioned to an operational capability. (5) Establish Points of Contact and working groups to: - Coordinate common hydrographic data formats, product deliverables, and contractual support. - Coordinate interagency data processing, networking, and storage efforts. - Navy and NOAA to discuss collaborative ENC co-production and maintenance efforts. - Navy and NOAA to discuss MCM related processing and production.
HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION MEETING Data Networking, Processing, & Storage Working Group Accomplishments: • Held introductory meeting at National Coastal Data Development Center (NCCDC) on 22 October to establish working relationship. • Held technical meeting at NCDDC 31 October. • Pending NCDDC visit to NAVOCEANO for technical details. • Full meeting of WG to occur 28 -29 November. • Agenda items include: • Briefings on Core Capabilities • Perspectives on GIS • Classification of effort • Coordinated contingency response. • Product Definition • Emergent R&D • Data Formats • Required contractual support • Collaborative relegation of processing, networking, & storage
Navy Operational Oceanography (1) Formed Crisis Action Team (CAT) to plan Homeland Security Actions. (2) Provide 24/7 operational support for Homeland Security. (3) Provide Daily/Weekly Intel briefs for SSC agencies. (4) Implement CONUS circulation model (8 km) to provide boundary conditions for higher resolution nested models. (5) Conducting collaborative CONUS port survey ops, including Q-routes. (6) Providing 3 ships, HSLs, AUV and personnel for Homeland Security surveys. (7) Sharing U.S. port data with National Partners.
