NWS Partners Meeting

1. NWS Roadmap Services NWS Partners Meeting Mike Hudson David Manning June 29, 2011

2. Overview of Services Plan • Establishes framework of Transformational Concepts • Evolution to National Incident Management System (NIMS) Compliance • Integration of Social Science Principles • Cadre of Emergency Response Specialists • Reimbursable IDSS Strategy • Foundational Datasets • Impacts Catalog • NWS Operations and Services Proving Ground • Communications Strategy for high-impact events • Dissemination Strategy Making the extraordinary ordinary

3. Overview of Services Plan • Specifically, the Services Plan: • Defines “what we do” to provide future services • Establishes requirements for other plans: Science and Technology, Workforce Evolution, Business • Provides details in specific areas: • Impact-based Decision Support Services • Integrated Environmental Services • Emerging and Collaborative Service Sectors • Populating the Foundational Datasets • Dissemination Strategy Making the extraordinary ordinary

4. Summary of Services • Impact-Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) • IDSS as NWS business line • Adopt IMET program concepts to manage world-class IDSS response • NOC, ROCs, cadre of Emergency Response Specialists • Integrated Environmental Services (IES) • Integrated Water Resources Science and Service (IWRSS) • Climate • Ecosystems • Expanded liaison roles Making the extraordinary ordinary

5. Summary of Services • Emerging and Collaborative Service Sectors • Arctic • Space Weather • Aviation • Surface Transportation • Renewable Energy • Public Health • Foundational Datasets • Collaborative forecast process • Contributing to and extracting value from a Common Operating Picture Making the extraordinary ordinary

6. Summary of Services • Supporting the Weather Enterprise • Strong partners = strong NWS • Empowering private sector through foundational datasets and with NWS expertise • Quality Management System • “Next generation” of measures • Environment of constant improvement • Quantifying societal impacts Making the extraordinary ordinary

7. Accomplishments • Three levels of review collected diverse feedback from multiple groups across NOAA and NWS • NIFC Fire Weather team • All Regions and National Centers • National Climate Service regional directors • Concepts shared with external stakeholders • Annual AMS meeting • National Severe Weather Workshop • Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG) • Document is currently at 90% completion Making the extraordinary ordinary

8. Next Steps • Services pilot projects • Designed to test transformational concepts • Pilot spin-up underway • Complete final review of Services Plan – August 2011 • External engagement to socialize NWS Roadmap Making the extraordinary ordinary

9. Questions Making the extraordinary ordinary