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Building a Weather-Ready Nation NWS Partners

NWS Roadmap. Building a Weather-Ready Nation NWS Partners. ** PRE-DECISIONAL. Andrea Bleistein NWS Roadmap Deputy Team Lead. June 29, 2011. NWS Strategic Plan - Goals. GOAL 1: Improve weather decision services for events that threaten lives and livelihoods.

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Building a Weather-Ready Nation NWS Partners

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  1. NWS Roadmap Building a Weather-Ready Nation NWS Partners ** PRE-DECISIONAL Andrea Bleistein NWS Roadmap Deputy Team Lead June 29, 2011

  2. NWS Strategic Plan - Goals • GOAL 1: Improve weather decision services for events that threaten lives and livelihoods. • GOAL 2: Deliver a broad suite of improved water forecasting services to support management of the nation’s water supply • GOAL 3: Support climate services to help communities, businesses, and governments understand and adapt to climate-related risk • GOAL 4: Improve sector-relevant information in support of economic productivity • GOAL 5: Enable integrated environmental forecast services supporting healthy communities and ecosystems • GOAL 6: Sustain a highly-skilled, professional workforce equipped with the training, tools, and infrastructure to meet our mission

  3. Operations Concept Developing the NWS Roadmap BUSINESS SERVICES S&T WORKFORCE Making the extraordinary ordinary ** PRE-DECISIONAL

  4. Roadmap Alignment • Four teams: • Services Plan • Defines NWS services of the future and how they will be managed, communicated, marketed, and executed • S&T Plan • Defines technical solutions to meet services needs of the future; provides technical solutions to IT infrastructure issues • Workforce Evolution Plan • Address the strategic management of the workforce over the next 5 to 10 years, along with the training/tools required to enable the workforce to implement new services in the future • Business Plan • Outlines the current cost of services and investment required to implement this initiative; calculates the anticipated Return on Investment Making the extraordinary ordinary ** PRE-DECISIONAL

  5. Organization Jack Hayes Laura Furgione Advisory Board Andrea Bleistein Deputy Team Lead & Project Manager Chris Strager Team Lead • Bob Byrd • Gary Carter • Ed Johnson • Lynn Maximuk • Dan Sobien • Mark Paese • Tracy Rouleau • David Caldwell • Don Berchoff Business Plan Services Plan S&T Plan Workforce Plan • Jason Tuell • Don Jiron • Mike Hudson • David Manning • Brad Colman • Marie Lovern • Steven Cooper • Jennifer Sprague CONTRACTOR SUPPORT Making the extraordinary ordinary ** PRE-DECISIONAL

  6. Schedule - 2011 Flexibility is key • Advisory Board Review of all Roadmap documents • end July 2011 • Corporate Board (CB) Review/Approval • August 2011 • Incorporate Results of National Academies Study (NAS) - August 2011 • Final CB Review/Approval • September 2011 – SES Retreat • Present to SAB EISWG and EMs (NEMA, IAEM) for review/comments • October – November 2011 • Finalize Roadmap V1.0 • November 2011 • Begin Draft Implementation Plan • December 2011 • Additional Schedule Considerations • Link to budget process • Obtain NOAA approval • Incorporate second NAS Study results - Summer 2012 Making the extraordinary ordinary ** PRE-DECISIONAL

  7. Communications/Briefings • Ongoing internal • Regular briefings to NWS Corporate Board • Working with Office of Communications • Monthly status updates to NOAA DUS • Past external engagement • NWS Strategic Plan, 2010 • National Severe Weather Workshop, March 2011 • NEMA Mid-Year Conference, March 2011 • USGS, June 2011 • Upcoming external engagement • AMS Summer Meeting – SAB EISWG, August 2011 • National Weather Association, October 2011 • NEMA and IAEM Annual Meetings, October and November 2011 Making the extraordinary ordinary ** PRE-DECISIONAL

  8. What to Expect Today • Informational briefings by each of the team leads • Clarification questions Making the extraordinary ordinary ** PRE-DECISIONAL

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