Pre-Decisional National Weather Service Central Processing and Dissemination Portfolio Partners Meeting Overview Ben Kyger: Central Processing Portfolio Manager (Acting) August 4, 2014
Pre-Decisional 2 Processing Portfolio Overview Processing Portfolio Capabilities: –Capability 1: Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) –Capability 2: Supercomputing - includes Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS) –Capability 3: National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Office of Director and NCEP Central Operations (NCO) –Capability 4: Hydrology (Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS), Water Resources) –Capability 5: NCEP Centers and Regional Information Technology Funding ($K)FTE 150, FY 2015 Processing Related President’s Budget Estimate
Pre-Decisional 3 FY 2015 Processing Thrust Areas, Initial FY 2015 Milestones and Cross Cutting Priorities Thrust AreaMilestone$ ROM Cross Cutting Priorities Quarter Due (1) AWIPS II Complete the deployment of AWIPS II to all forecast offices Existing Labor TrainingQ4 (2) N-AWIPS Complete 2 NCEP Centers N-AWIPS to AWIPS II deployments Existing Labor TrainingQ4 (3) AWIPS recomplete acquisition Award new contract for AWIPS $ MM TrainingQ4 (4) Increase supercomputing capability Take delivery of WCOSS phase 2 including compute and storage capacity of 700 Tera (trillion) Floating Point Operations per Second or greater $ MM InternationalQ1 (8) Water Center IT infrastructure and networking capabilities NCO provides wide area networking and remote computing for the National Water Center $ 1M HydrologyQ2 (7) NCO and TOC merge – NWS IT Central Operations Create a single NWS IT Operations Center and merge TOC capability with the NCO - Complete and Submit Implementation Plan Existing Labor InternationalQ1 Merge the TOC into the NCO organization Existing Labor InternationalQ4
Pre-Decisional 4 Thrust AreaMilestone$ ROM Cross Cutting Priorities Quarter Due Hydrology and AWIPS Implement and support the Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast Service at all River Forecast Centers Existing Labor HydrologyQ4 Processing Specific Training Related Milestones Improve the federal Processing Project Management capability $ KK TrainingQ4 FY 2015 Processing Thrust Areas, Initial FY 2015 Milestones and Cross Cutting Priorities (continued)
Pre-Decisional 5 Dissemination Portfolio Overview Funding ($K)FTE 85,30882 Dissemination Portfolio Services: –Service 1: Dissemination IT Infrastructure Services –Service 2: Virtualized Application Services –Service 3: Terrestrial and Satellite Networking Services –Service 4: Weather Warning Services –Service 5: Web and Geospatial Services FY 2015 Dissemination Related President’s Budget Estimate
Pre-Decisional Thrust AreaMilestone $ ROM Cross Cutting Priorities Quarter Due Service 1: Dissemination IT Infrastructure Services (1) Standup of operational dissemination infrastructure at primary and backup facilities Complete Dissemination Infrastructure Backup Site $ M Hydrology and International Q3 Service 2: Virtualized Application Services (3) Continue migration of dissemination systems and applications (MRMS, MADIS, NIDS, GIS, and data providing services for AWIPS II DD, FAA, and WMO) (4) Execute the termination of obsolete dissemination programs / projects / systems Full Operation Capability of MRMS at dissemination infrastructure primary and backup site $1.5M Hydrology and International All Q4 Full Operation Capability of WIS at dissemination infrastructure primary and backup site $ KK Full Operation Capability of iNWS at dissemination infrastructure primary and backup site $ M Full Operation Capability of VLab at dissemination infrastructure primary and backup site $ K 6 FY 2015 Dissemination Thrust Areas, Initial FY 2015 Milestones and Cross Cutting Priorities
Pre-Decisional Thrust AreaMilestone$ ROM Cross Cutting Priorities Quarte r Due Service 3: Terrestrial and Satellite Networking Services (5) Increase the network bandwidth and reliability of all offices with NWS nationwide including the last mile Network upgrade for JPSS testing readiness Portfolio Communication Costs Hydrology and International Q1 Network CONUS and OCONUS WFO upgrades Portfolio Communication Costs Q2 Network upgrade for WCOSS readiness Portfolio Communication Costs Q3 Network upgrade for GOES-R readiness Portfolio Communication Costs Q4 GRB Antenna and Product Generation Capability at NWS Centers Portfolio Communication Costs Q4 Service 4: Weather Warning Services (6) Finalize and initiate implementation of roadmap of NWS dissemination capabilities to provide watches & warnings to the nation's population Execute approved Roadmap – initial year implementation for future Weather warning Services $ KKK Q4 Complete NOAA Weather Radio Enhancements (install 143 transmitters, install 240 antennas/coaxial cables) $ M Q4 7 FY 2015 Dissemination Thrust Areas, Initial FY 2015 Milestones and Cross Cutting Priorities (continued)
Pre-Decisional Thrust AreaMilestone$ ROM Cross Cutting Priorities Quarter Due Service 5: Web and Geospatial Services (7) Stand-up and maintain an enterprise GIS Infrastructure Full Operation Capability of NextGen IT Web Services at dissemination infrastructure primary and backup site $ M Hydrology and International Q4 Full Operation Capability of NIDS at dissemination infrastructure primary and backup site $ M Q4 Full Operation Capability of NowCoast at dissemination infrastructure primary and backup site $ KK Q4 8 FY 2015 Dissemination Thrust Areas, Initial FY 2015 Milestones and Cross Cutting Priorities (continued)