Building a Weather-Ready Nation

NWS Partners

Building a Weather-Ready Nation

NWS Partners

NWS RoadmapNWS Roadmap

Andrea BleisteinNWS Roadmap Deputy Team Lead

Andrea BleisteinNWS Roadmap Deputy Team Lead

June 29, 2011June 29, 2011

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NWS Strategic Plan - GoalsNWS Strategic Plan - Goals

• GOAL 1: Improve weather decision services for events that GOAL 1: Improve weather decision services for events that threaten lives and livelihoods.threaten lives and livelihoods.

• GOAL 2: Deliver a broad suite of improved water forecasting GOAL 2: Deliver a broad suite of improved water forecasting services to support management of the nation’s water supplyservices to support management of the nation’s water supply

• GOAL 3: Support climate services to help communities, businesses, GOAL 3: Support climate services to help communities, businesses, and governments understand and adapt to climate-related riskand governments understand and adapt to climate-related risk

• GOAL 4: Improve sector-relevant information in support of GOAL 4: Improve sector-relevant information in support of economic productivityeconomic productivity

• GOAL 5: Enable integrated environmental forecast services GOAL 5: Enable integrated environmental forecast services supporting healthy communities and ecosystemssupporting healthy communities and ecosystems

• GOAL 6: Sustain a highly-skilled, professional workforce equipped GOAL 6: Sustain a highly-skilled, professional workforce equipped with the training, tools, and infrastructure to meet our missionwith the training, tools, and infrastructure to meet our mission

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BUSINESS SERVICES

S&T WORKFORCE

Making the extraordinary ordinary

Operations ConceptDeveloping the NWS Roadmap

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Roadmap AlignmentRoadmap Alignment• Four teams:

– Services Plan• Defines NWS services of the future and how they will be managed,

communicated, marketed, and executed– S&T Plan

• Defines technical solutions to meet services needs of the future; provides technical solutions to IT infrastructure issues

– Workforce Evolution Plan• Address the strategic management of the workforce over the next

5 to 10 years, along with the training/tools required to enable the workforce to implement new services in the future

– Business Plan• Outlines the current cost of services and investment required to

implement this initiative; calculates the anticipated Return on Investment

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OrganizationOrganization

Business Plan

Services Plan

S&T Plan

Workforce Plan

Chris StragerTeam Lead

Andrea BleisteinDeputy Team Lead &

Project Manager

Advisory Board

Jack HayesLaura Furgione

• Jason Tuell• Don Jiron

• Mike Hudson• David Manning

• Brad Colman• Marie Lovern

• Steven Cooper• Jennifer Sprague

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• Bob Byrd• Gary Carter• Ed Johnson• Lynn Maximuk• Dan Sobien• Mark Paese• Tracy Rouleau• David Caldwell• Don Berchoff

CONTRACTOR SUPPORT

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Schedule - 2011Schedule - 2011Flexibility is key

• Advisory Board Review of all Roadmap documents – end July 2011

• Corporate Board (CB) Review/Approval– August 2011

• Incorporate Results of National Academies Study (NAS) - August 2011

• Final CB Review/Approval– September 2011 – SES Retreat

• Present to SAB EISWG and EMs (NEMA, IAEM) for review/comments– October – November 2011

• Finalize Roadmap V1.0– November 2011

• Begin Draft Implementation Plan – December 2011

Additional Schedule Considerations

•Link to budget process

•Obtain NOAA approval

•Incorporate second NAS Study results - Summer 2012

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• Ongoing internal– Regular briefings to NWS Corporate Board – Working with Office of Communications– Monthly status updates to NOAA DUS

• Past external engagement– NWS Strategic Plan, 2010– National Severe Weather Workshop, March 2011– NEMA Mid-Year Conference, March 2011– USGS, June 2011

• Upcoming external engagement– AMS Summer Meeting – SAB EISWG, August 2011– National Weather Association, October 2011– NEMA and IAEM Annual Meetings, October and November 2011

Communications/BriefingsCommunications/Briefings

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What to Expect TodayWhat to Expect Today• Informational briefings by each of the team

leads• Clarification questions

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