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

2. 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

3. CRS Hardware (Legacy)

4. AWIPS II/BMH Hardware

5. BMH High Level Data Flow
Legacy CRS
AWIPS II BMH

6. BMH Architecture

7. 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

8. 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