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

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 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: o Impact-based Decision Support Services o Integrated Environmental Services o Emerging and Collaborative Service Sectors o Populating the Foundational Datasets o Dissemination Strategy Making the extraordinary ordinary

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

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

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

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

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 8 Making the extraordinary ordinary

9 Questions Making the extraordinary ordinary