NOAA Weather Radio Broadcast Message Handler Project Gary Dayton Project Manager Office of Science and Technology National Weather Service

Objectives Impacts Replace legacy Console Replacement System (CRS) 15 years old (far beyond end of life) Hardware and software support difficult Leverage AWIPS II Hardware Baseline Software baseline O&M Tech refresh Impacts WFO Forecasters Minimal Same user interface and functionality as CRS Public None Same weather products

CRS Hardware (Legacy)

AWIPS II/BMH Hardware

BMH High Level Data Flow Legacy CRS AWIPS II BMH

BMH Architecture

BMH Progress Completed Functional Requirements Document Completed Preliminary Design Review Completed Critical Design Review AWIPS II Software Development Initiated Digital Analog Converters Tested and Approved for Production

BMH Schedule Task Start Finish Functional Requirements Document 09/12/13 11/25/13 High level Design Document 12/17/13 04/09/14 Software Design Document 01/17/13 05/20/14 Preliminary Design Review 03/27/14 Critical Design Review 05/21/14 Software Development 05/05/14 12/19/14 Initial Software Demonstration 08/27/14 DAC Delivery 11/01/14 12/31/14 Final Software Demonstration 12/17/14 Software Integration Testing (SWIT) 12/22/14 02/19/15 Software Acceptance Testing (SAT) 03/10/15 03/15/15 Alpha Testing 03/16/15 04/28/15 Operational Test and Evaluation 04/20/15 07/24/15 Deployment Readiness Review 07/27/15 07/28/15 Deployment 08/05/15 09/16/15