1. WG-CSAB Update Fall 2010 COPC Meeting (AFWA – Offutt AFB) Allan Darling WG-CSAB Chair

2. 2 Overview  WG-CSAB membership  Action Item Overview  Backup NWSTG CONOPS  Other CSAB Actions  CSAB Roles

3. 3 WG-CSAB Membership * New member NCEP Representative Mr. Allan Darling (Chair) AFWA RepresentativeDr. John Zapotocny FNMOC RepresentativeMr. Jim Vermeulen NAVO RepresentativeMr. George Mason NESDIS RepresentativeMs. Selina Nauman NWS/TOC RepresentativeMr. Walter Smith OFCM Executive SecretaryMr. Ken Barnett JAG/ODAA Co-chairMr. Jim Vermeulen (FNMOC) JAG/ODAA Co-chairDr. Bradley Ballish (NCEP) JAG/CCM ChairMr. Chris Finnigsmeir * (AFWA ) JAG/OCM ChairMr. Evan Kuchera (AFWA) NUOPC LiasonMr. Dave McCarren

4. 4 COPC Action Item Overview Seven action items from the COPC 2010-01 meeting Four remain open: 2010-1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4. Three recommended for closure: 2010-1.5, 1.6 and 1.7. Five action items from prior COPC meetings Four remain open: 2009-2.3, 2009-2.9, 2009-2.10 and 2008-1.5. One recommended for closure : 2008-2.11. COPC Action Items Status is included in the reference materials COPC Action Items not briefed elsewhere follow…

5. 5 Backup NWSTG CONOPS COPC Action Item 2009-2.3: The CSAB shall request from the NWS TOC the NWS Backup Telecommunication Gateway (BTG) CONOPS document to include a description of the data flows as it relates to COPC CONOPS pending completion of NWS/TOC BTG plans CSAB recommends this action be kept open

6. 6 Other CSAB Actions CSAB began coordination for an 18 hour outage at FNMOC in September; effort was stopped after outage cancellation. As a side effect of the coordination an item was identified for COPC consideration: Is there requirement to produce SSMI/S UPP data at AFWA to backup FNMOC function Would require like execution environments and coordinated Configuration Management Would potentially require new infrastructure (compute & network bandwidth) CSAB is updating the Federal Plan for Cooperative Support and Backup Among Operational Processing Centers (P14) by the Spring COPC meeting TOC will be moved out of the NCEP section to a stand-alone section

7. 7 CSAB Roles JAG/CCM Changes Luis Cano stepped down as JAG/CCM Chair and NCEP representative on the JAG in Aug 2010 to lead the NCEP supercomputer acquisition Chris Finnigsmier (AFWA) is the JAG/CCM chair through Spring COPC Bernard Werwinski (TOC) assumes the JAG/CCM chair after Spring COPC Cameron Shelton (NCEP) will join JAG/CCM as the NCEP representative

8. 8 CSAB Roles COPC may wish to discuss tenure of chairs for CSAB and JAGs CSAB 1994 James G. Howcroft (NMC) 1995 Donald Caviness (AFWA) 2000 Carl Thormeyer (FNMOC) 2005–2008 (Sept) Dr. John Zapotocny (AFWA) 2008 (Oct) CDR Mark Moran (NCEP) 2008 (Nov)–present Allan Darling (NCEP) JAG/ODAA 2005–2007 Mike Matson (NESDIS) [Satellite] 2005–2008 CoChair Jon Whiteside (AFWA) [Conventional] 2007–2008 CoChair Gary Petti (NESDIS) [Satellite] 2008 (Jun)–present CoChair Jim Vermeulen (FNMOC) [Satellite] 2008 (Oct)–present CoChair Brad Ballish (NCEP) [Conventional] JAG/OCM 2005–2009 Dr. Nelson Seaman (NCEP) 2009 (May)–present Evan Kurchera (AFWA)

9. 9 Questions?

10. 10 BACK-UP

11. 11 Coordinating Structure Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (FCMSSR) National Operational Processing Centers (NOPC) Program Council Committee for Operational Processing Centers (COPC) Working Group for Cooperative Support and Backup (WG/CSAB) Joint Action Group for Operational Community Modeling (JAG/OCM) Joint Action Group for Centralized Communications Management (JAG/CCM) Joint Action Group for Operational Data Acquisition for Assimilation (JAG/ODAA) Federal Coordinator for Meteorology