Building a Weather-Ready Nation
NWS Partners
Building a Weather-Ready Nation
NWS Partners
NWS RoadmapNWS Roadmap
Andrea BleisteinNWS Roadmap Deputy Team Lead
Andrea BleisteinNWS Roadmap Deputy Team Lead
June 29, 2011June 29, 2011
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NWS Strategic Plan - GoalsNWS Strategic Plan - Goals
• GOAL 1: Improve weather decision services for events that GOAL 1: Improve weather decision services for events that threaten lives and livelihoods.threaten lives and livelihoods.
• GOAL 2: Deliver a broad suite of improved water forecasting GOAL 2: Deliver a broad suite of improved water forecasting services to support management of the nation’s water supplyservices to support management of the nation’s water supply
• GOAL 3: Support climate services to help communities, businesses, GOAL 3: Support climate services to help communities, businesses, and governments understand and adapt to climate-related riskand governments understand and adapt to climate-related risk
• GOAL 4: Improve sector-relevant information in support of GOAL 4: Improve sector-relevant information in support of economic productivityeconomic productivity
• GOAL 5: Enable integrated environmental forecast services GOAL 5: Enable integrated environmental forecast services supporting healthy communities and ecosystemssupporting healthy communities and ecosystems
• GOAL 6: Sustain a highly-skilled, professional workforce equipped GOAL 6: Sustain a highly-skilled, professional workforce equipped with the training, tools, and infrastructure to meet our missionwith the training, tools, and infrastructure to meet our mission
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BUSINESS SERVICES
S&T WORKFORCE
Making the extraordinary ordinary
Operations ConceptDeveloping the NWS Roadmap
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Roadmap AlignmentRoadmap 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
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OrganizationOrganization
Business Plan
Services Plan
S&T Plan
Workforce Plan
Chris StragerTeam Lead
Andrea BleisteinDeputy Team Lead &
Project Manager
Advisory Board
Jack HayesLaura Furgione
• Jason Tuell• Don Jiron
• Mike Hudson• David Manning
• Brad Colman• Marie Lovern
• Steven Cooper• Jennifer Sprague
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• Bob Byrd• Gary Carter• Ed Johnson• Lynn Maximuk• Dan Sobien• Mark Paese• Tracy Rouleau• David Caldwell• Don Berchoff
CONTRACTOR SUPPORT
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Schedule - 2011Schedule - 2011Flexibility 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
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• 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
Communications/BriefingsCommunications/Briefings
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