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Implementation Process
Implementation Process
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Using a matrix approach to management, the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Modernization also oversees and coordinates the modernization roles and activities of these other NWS offices as well. The Transition Program Office supports the coordination function.
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For example, the functions of the Principal User Processor, a part of the Next Generation Weather Radar system, eventually will be performed by the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System. Although this change may be appropriate and necessary, it might have been avoided if an overall system design or configuration control process had been in place several years ago.
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Recommendation: The National Weather Service should establish overall policies and procedures for the development of major systems, including consideration of the interaction between systems, and establish software development and maintenance standards. Hardware Status The NWS plans for its contractors to install as well as construct hardware.
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Additional management workload has been undertaken both at NWS headquarters and in See also Chapter 3, page 33.
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For example, there now is no leadership in planning the way in which the warning and coordination functions will be conducted by the 115 Weather Forecast Offices whose responsibilities will cross state boundaries versus today's 50 offices that operate within state boundaries. • Management workload at NWS headquarters and in the field is increasing as maintenance problems increase with the aging of current equipment and facilities.
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Recommendation: The management and project staffs at National Weather Service headquarters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Department of Commerce administrative support should be increased temporarily during the implementation of modernization by at least 20 to 40 well-qualified people. At the regional level, staffing is marginal to cover ongoing operations and the new work associated with modernization.
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The Committee understands that the concept of one meteorologist covering the night shift is based on the premises that • a single meteorologist can properly review, modify, and keep up to date a four-dimensional database in the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) which covers at least 48 hours and from which all operational forecasts will be produced automatically and disseminated with no manual activity involved; and • the meteorologist's main role during bad weather situations will be to concentrate on only the first 12 hours of the forecast period using the AWIPS database, and relying on computer-generated forecasts beyond 12 hours.
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Such persons may be needed to provide special interpretation and advice to emergency management centers regarding specific local warning and community response problems. Recommendation: As a part of the Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration, the National Weather Service must thoroughly test the concept of forecasts being automatically produced at night by using a final four-dimensional database.
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(2) special measures to test, evaluate, and demonstrate key elements of the Modernized National Weather Service operations prior to national implementation, including a multistation operational demonstration which tests the performance of all components of the modernization in an integrated manner for a sustained period;..".
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Although the Committee has not received the proposed detailed certification plans for review, its following initial views are offered for consideration. First, specific comparisons of the quantity and quality of weather information, forecasts, and warnings, and their prompt dissemination must be obtained, both during the MARD and during the process of certifying the capabilities of any Weather Forecast Office (WFO)
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