1. Ron Weaver NSIDC DAAC Manager
PODAG.18 April 25-26, 2001
Ron Weaver
NSIDC DAAC Manager

2. Topics DAAC Alliance NewDISS ECS Follow on Contract Budget Report
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3. DAAC Alliance

4. DAAC Alliance Effort by the DAACS to: Elected Officers:
coordinate work on common issues and problems
establish some self-governance and thus independence from ESDIS/NASA
prepare ourselves for the next era of NASA data management, which appears headed for a more distributed, competitive environment
Elected Officers:
Don Collins (JPL) chair 2/01 to 3/02
Ron Weaver (NSIDC), vice-chair 2/01 to 3/02, then chair 3/02 to 3/03
Written a draft strategic management plan
Written a draft charter, now trying to obtain institutional support
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5. DAAC Alliance: Tasks
The Alliance will attempt collaborative development of position statements, working partnerships etc. to advance the following:
New DISS Formulation
Contribute to Formulation Team work by working on establishment of standards (data, metadata, protocols, interfaces, user services).
Data Stewardship
Write data center responsibilities.
Data Distribution
Collaborate on improved distribution methods.
Billing and Accounting
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6. New Data Information Systems and Services
New DISS
New Data Information Systems and Services …
A 6 to 10 year approach to Data Systems and Services for NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise

7. New DISS GSFC New Program Formulation Team Authorized
Dr. Steve Wharton Vanessa Griffin Ken McDonald Gail McConaughy Matt Schwaller
Team meets weekly at GSFC
Expect to have draft plan ready by October 2001 (means much of the work will be done this summer)
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8. ECS Follow-on Contract
ESDIS Maintenance and Development Contract
(EMD)

9. EMD
EMD is to be a contract that continues support of the ECS contract, which ends October 31, 2002.
It will:
assure uninterrupted processing, archiving, access and distribution of EOS data
maximize science return while minimizing costs
foster a distributed, heterogeneous network of data management capabilities for ESE, leveraging off of current systems with graceful evolution
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10. EMD: Scope Responsibility for the SDMS maintenance and development
hardware and software corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance and development
ongoing systems engineering functions in support of new requirements and improvements to deployed system
support science community interface to the SDMS
support SDMS operations community
maintain and develop external non-SDMS components
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11. EMD: considerations Task based contract
What is the scope of the contract?
Maintenance
+? Development
+? Operations
Governance
Desire to include DAACs in the process …
but how? (past history is not supportive)
Priority board
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12. ECS background The ECS: 12.1 million source lines of code
about 50 COTS packages
ingest and distribute about 2 TB of data per day
archive 9 pedabytes
1300 science data types
about 30K mflops of science processing
ECS at four sites, deployed on 12 to 25 core enterprise class unix servers per DAAC
35 external interfaces
5 million items (tunable parameters, data types etc. under configuration control
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13. NSIDC DAAC Budget

14. NSIDC DAAC Budget Appears to be adequate through FY01
Budget Actions since last PoDAG
Augmentation for Security Coordinator
Augmentation for increased operational hours
Data Systems Engineering (DSE) projects partly funded
Polar Spatial Query
ECS External subset server
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15. NRC Data Review, (yes another one)
Congressional enabling language in FYOO requested a study of availability and usefulness of data from NASA’s earth and space enterprises.
Space Studies Board conducting study
So far, we have responded to a questionnaire from the NRC.
We do not expect much additional contact.
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16. Staffing Changes Operations Supervisor User Services Office
Ann Bessenbacher leaving 4 May
User Services Office
Diana Starr leaving in early June
Tracy Thrasher - Hybl leaving in June
Clerical Support
Carol Pedigo leaving end of June
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17. EOS Instrument Status TERRA MODIS AQUA - December 2001?
Snow and Ice Data released
Ingest rates are stable, but have concerns when reprocessing starts
AQUA - December 2001?
AMSR
MODIS
ICESat December 2001 or February 2002?
GLAS
ADEOS II Later in 2002
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18. BACKUP SLIDES

19. LTA of EOS Data
LTA will be under NOAA auspices if and when NOAA acquires funds
Implementation plan is being written
Options:
NCDC, NGDC get the data (ours goes to NGDC)
Archive in Place
Two others that probably will not be implemented
Level of Service determined by NOAA, most likely charges for data will be implemented
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20. EOS Science Linkages
Following chart was provided by Vanessa Griffin. It depicts her understanding of science linkages within the EOS
(It was to have been updated, but has not)
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21. EOS Science Organization Line Control Program Control Science Guidance
NASA Administrator
Mr.. Daniel Goldin
August 9, 2000
Code Y
Goddard Space Flight Center
Mr.. A. Diaz
Earth Science Enterprise
Dr. Ghassem Asrar
Code YS
Code YO
Code 400
Code 900
Science Division
Dr. Jack Kaye
Applications, Commercialization, and Education Division
Mr.. Mike Thomas
Flight Projects
Directorate
Mr. Bill Campbell
Earth Science Directorate
Dr. Vince Salomonson
Code 420
Associate Director of Flight Projects for EOS
Mr. Chris Scolese
EOS Project Scientist
Dr. Michael King
EOSDIS
Dr. Carl Reber
DISS Program Scientist
Ms. Martha Maiden
Terra Program Scientist
Dr. Dianne Wickland
Aqua Program Scientist
Dr. Ramesh Kakar
Dr. Joe McNeal
Code 423
ESDIS Project Manager
Ms. Dorothy Perkins
Terra
Dr. Yoram Kaufman
Aqua
Dr. Claire Parkinson
Science Operations Manager
Ms. Vanessa Griffin
Aura
Dr. P. K. Bartia
DAACs