HazCollect System NOAA National Weather Service December 2004

15 December HazCollect Key Representatives Lawrence Lehmann, Program Manager Jon Adkins, Lead Engineer Herb White, Operations Policy

15 December HazCollect Project Develop a system that allows approved and authenticated external emergency managers at the Federal State and local levels to submit messages for broadcast over NOAA Weather Radio (NWR)* for the purpose of warning or informing the public. Develop a nationwide capability to streamline the current manual creation, authentication, and collection of all types of non-weather emergency messages in a quick and secure fashion for subsequent alert, warning and notification purposes. * expanded to include NNWS and NWS Gateway driven dissemination systems

15 December Current System Shortfalls for Transmitting Non-Weather Messages Not adapted to National warnings Manual Security and Authentication process Time consuming Error Prone Requires significant WFO staff intervention

15 December WFO AWIPS HazCollect Overview HazCollect DMIS NWS Telecom Gateway (TG) NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS) Interne t WFO AWIPS NOAA WEATHER RADIO NWEM (CEM) Format NWEM (CEM) Format CAP Format Emergency Managers DMIS EM Toolkit Other EM Systems (DisasterHelp.gov, State EMAs, etc.) NWS FEMA NWS WFOs Backup Process (Voice Phone) Dialup EAS EMWIN other Future All Hazards Emergency Messages To Re-distributors & Public Consumers Emergency Managers Other EM Interfaces

15 December HazCollect Components DMIS Server –Receives EM Input –Validates EM Credentials (authenticate and authorize) –Generates CAP Message –Sends CAP Message to HazCollect HazCollect Server –Receives CAP Message –Builds WMO/NWEM Message(s) –Transmits WMO/NWEM to NCF  NCF Disseminates to AWIPS Node(s) –Transmits WMO/NWEM to TG  TG Disseminates to NWS Consumers AWIPS –Receives WMO/NWEM –Transmits WMO/NWEM to NWWS Uplink –Converts WMO/NWEM to NWR broadcast format  Conversion Done with CAFÉ Formatter –Transfers to CRS  CRS sends to NWR for broadcast

15 December CAP to NWEM Transformation WMO Header or Name ID Message Content Information Source Issuance Time/Date NWS issuing Office Product Name MND Broadcast Instr. UGC Purge Time UGC Geo Identifier AWIPS ID CAP NWEM WFO Info FIPS/Zone Info Event Info

15 December Example Messages WOUS41 KAKQ EVIAKQ VAC BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED EVACUATION IMMEDIATE WAKEFIELD VA FIRE DEPARTMENT RELAYED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 937 AM EDT THU AUG THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE WAKEFIELD, VA FIRE DEPARTMENT AN IMMEDIATE EVACUATION IS REQUIRED FOR... $$ RFD A T09:37:00 Actual Alert Public RFD EVACUATION IMMEDIATE Immediate Severity Very Likely Wakefield Fire Department same=EVI T12:00:00 AN IMMEDIATE EVACUATION IS REQUIRED FOR... 5 Mi Radius 20 mi NNE of Wakefield VA fips=51017, fips=51019, fips=51027 OASIS CAP Message WMO NWEM Message

15 December HazCollect Schedule Phase I Limited Production System (LPS) –Demonstrate the HazCollect functionality to send (at least) one message completely through the system. –Demo Test – 2/05 Phase II Initial Operational Capability (IOC) –Full capability to send any product or products to meet the functional requirements in the Functional Requirements Document. –Development Test & Evaluation (DT&E) – 6/05 Phase III Final Operational Capability (FOC) – Final software/hardware plus fixes identified in Phase I and II. Formal testing all products created and disseminated. –DT&E – 7/05 –Operational Acceptance Test – 8/05 Deployment National System Capability Deployed – Winter 05/06

15 December HazCollect Development Players Organizations/Contractors identified to develop the HazCollect system through the phases.. Battelle: Develop the HazCollect Central Server (HCS) to interface with the DMIS system and AWIPS infrastructure. Responsible for verifying DMIS meets the HazCollect security requirements of Authentication and Authorization. Will provide O&M support. FSL: Develop and modify AWIPS code to ensure automatic dissemination of NWEM through the AWIPS existing dissemination system. NGIT: Ensures the AWIPS infrastructure i.e. Network Control Facility (NCF) system interfaces with the HCS. Develop any changes to the NCF to ensure full system integration of the HCS. Integration testing and technical support. NWS Gateway: HazCollect Location and Operations Support NWS: Program Management/System Engineering Center

15 December HazCollect Backup Slides

15 December Concepts of Operations

15 December HazCollect System Data Flow CA P Me ssa ge WM O/ NW EM Mes sage AF OS Mes sag e EM Inp uts WFO AWIPS HazCollec t Server DMIS Syste m Data DMIS User Accou nt DMIS NWE M Confi g Auxiliary Data Messages HazCollect Components TGNWWS CRS/N WR WFO Info NWE M Info FIPS/ Zone Info NWE M Confi g Dissemination Systems AWIP S Syste m Data Product Consumers WM O/ NW EM Mes sag e Broadcast AWIPS NCF WM O/ NW EM Mes sage

15 December HazCollect Messages OASIS CAP Message –Common Alerting Protocol –Emergency Management Message Format –XML Based, Required and Optional Fields WMO/NWEM Message –Non-Weather Emergency Message –Standard NWS Product Format –WMO Format Header, AWIPS Product Header AFOS Message (NWR format) –Voice Ready CRS Format