National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service's (NWS)

Dissemination Portfolio 101

Luis Cano NWS Dissemination Portfolio Manager (Acting)

NOAA Integrated Dissemination Program Manager

December 4, 2014

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Agenda

• Meeting Purpose

• NWS Mission and Dissemination of Warnings and Forecasts

• NWS Dissemination Portfolio – Summary of Services – NWS Dissemination Challenges and Solutions– Major Milestone Schedule FY 2014 to FY 2017

• Way Forward/Next Steps

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Meeting Purpose - Informational

• Provide an overview of the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Dissemination Portfolio

• NWS provides climate, water, weather forecasts and warnings to protect life and property and enhance the economy

‒ 76 billion observations, 1.5 million forecasts, 50,000 warnings

• NWS must disseminate accurate and timely forecasts and warnings‒ Over last year experienced

significant dissemination failureswhich has put NWS mission at risk

• NOAA IDP and NWS Dissemination Portfolio focused on delivering capabilities in both short-term and long-term

‒ Key to capability delivery is strong Portfolio, Program and Project Management

Importance of NWS Mission & Dissemination of Warnings and Forecasts

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Overview of NWS Operations

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NWS Headquarters Restructure Around Portfolios

• Below is NWS’ proposed organization structure which includes six Portfolio Offices

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* In thousands of dollars

NWS Budget Composition by PortfolioFY 2015 President’s Budget

Funds Breakdown*

Observations ORF 200,277

Observations PAC 13,314

Central Processing ORF

86,517

Central Processing PAC

64,261

Analyze, Forecast and Support ORF

476,360

Dissemination ORF 40,099

Dissemination PAC 45,209

Science and Technology Integration ORF

123,600

Facilities PAC 13,710

TOTAL 1,063,347

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Dissemination Portfolio Services

• NWS Dissemination Portfolio consists of following five services:

‒ Weather Warning Services • Provide timely communication of weather and non-weather related warnings directly to the

public as well as emergency managers

‒ Dissemination Infrastructure Services• Standup of operational dissemination infrastructure

‒ Terrestrial and Satellite Networking Services• Augment and optimize NOAA’s NWS’ current

terrestrial and satellite network

‒ Web and Geospatial Services • Leverage Web services and

Geographic Information System (GIS) to disseminate critical weather and environmental data

‒ Virtualized Application Services• Provide aggregated and consolidated critical software applications

• NWS Dissemination Portfolio and NOAA IDP– Fixing and maintaining– Delivering near-term and incremental capability and reliability upgrades– Planning and executing long-term solutions

• NWS manages planned and unplanned outages on a daily basis across the nation

• NWS has experienced dissemination outages with nearly national impacts during severe weather events – Technical and organizational challenges resulting from NWS Enterprise stovepipes– Highlighted need for reliable networks and dissemination systems– Diverse outages since September 2013

• Government and non-government telecommunications infrastructure• NWS offices’ “last mile” single points of failures• Web capacity limitations • End of life NWS Field systems

NWS Dissemination Challenges and Solutions

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Dissemination PortfolioWeather Warning Services

• Weather Warning Services

• NOAA Weather Radio (NWR)– Operates/maintains broadcast network of 1025

transmitters to provide continuous weather information from nearest NWS office

– Broadcasts official warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information 24/7

– Upgrade remaining 133 to solid state NWR transmitters

• NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS)– Satellite data collection and redistribution system– Timely meteorological, hydrological, climatological,

and geophysical information– New NWS enterprise architecture solution will be

operational in FY15

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Dissemination Portfolio Dissemination Infrastructure Services

• Standup of Operational Dissemination Infrastructure– Scalable, robust, secure, and 7x24x365 operational dissemination infrastructure at

the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP), College Park, MD, and the David Skaggs Research Center

(DSRC), Boulder, CO

• Migrating critical NOAA and NWS operational dissemination applications including NWS Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG), Multi-Radar/Multi- Sensor (MRMS), Meteorological

Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS), NWS Information Dissemination System (NIDS), and GIS

– Execute termination of obsolete dissemination programs, projects and systems

– Continuous system scanning and monitoring for security vulnerabilities and detection of security threats or intrusions

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Dissemination PortfolioTerrestrial and Satellite Networking Services

• Increase Network Bandwidth and Reliability of all Offices with NWS Nationwide

– Network Upgrade and Optimization• Fixing and maintaining NWS operational networks• Delivering near-term incremental capability and reliability upgrades/improvements• Planning and executing long-term upgrade to comprehensively move NWS networks to

a single end-to-end managed system that is reliable and meets capacity requirements

– NWS Geostationary Weather Satellite Antenna• Updating NWS geostationary downlink

antennas and ingest systems for GeostationaryOperational Environmental Satellite R-Series

– Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) Expansion• Increased NWS’ SBN from 30 to 60+ Mbps• Disseminates crucial satellite, radar and

model data to NWS field offices and to external partners

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Dissemination PortfolioWeb and Geospatial Services

• Standup and Maintain an Enterprise GIS Infrastructure– Leveraging web services and GIS to disseminate NOAA and NWS critical data to

forecasters, NOAA users, Federal partners (Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)), International community and public

– Implementing net-centric weather information dissemination capability to fulfill NWS’ role in the Congressionally mandated Next Generation Air Traffic System (NextGen) directive

– Onboarding current GIS capabilities on an operational dissemination infrastructure

– Establishing common format framework for operating GIS data sets

• Establishing consistent metadata and a consolidated catalog for discovery and access of NOAA and NWSgeospatial content

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Dissemination PortfolioMajor Milestone Schedule FY 2014 to FY 2017

FY 2014 FY 2017Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1

11) IDP Dissemination Infrastructure build-out and augmentation at DSRC in Boulder, CO 2) IDP Dissemination Infrastructure augmentation at NCWCP in College Park, MD

2 NWSTG Re-architecture DOC Scalable Acquisition Framework Milestone 2 Review

3NWSTG Re-architecture Capabilities at IDP's Dissemination Infrastructure at NCWCP in College Park, MD and at DSRC in Boulder, CO

4 Terrestrial network upgrades associated with SBN Upgrade and SBN/NOAAPort upgraded to 60+ Mbps

5 NWS dissemination network resilience and capacity site audits

6Increases in internet bandwidth at 26 NWS Contiguous United States (CONUS) and 10 NWS Outside Contiguous United States (OCONUS) sites

7Installations of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R) Re-broadcast and direct readout antenna upgrades

8 Capacity end-to-end testing for increase in data, including GOES-R readiness testing activities

9 Operational capability for GOES-R-era space weather products

101) Migration of Southern Regions GIS web services at IDP's Dissemination Infrastructure at NCWCP in College Park, MD 2) Migration of Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) GIS operational services into NCEP Central Processing

11Operational NextGen IT Web Services capability at NCWCP in College Park, MD and at DSRC in Boulder, CO for dissemination of initial products to the FAA

12Replacement of CONUS RIDGE II with the operational Multiple Radar/Multiple Sensor (MRMS) located on the IDP dissemination infrastructure at NCWCP in College Park, MD and shutdown the CONUS RIDGE II in Southern Region

14 Migration of the Virtual Lab (VLab) capability to IDP's Dissemination Infrastructure at NCWCP in College Park, MD

13 NIDS operational capability at IDP's Dissemination Infrastructure at NCWCP in College Park, MD

151) Migration of Alaska Region's (AR) web services to NIDS at IDP's Dissemination Infrastructure at NCWCP in College Park, MD 2) Migration of nowCOAST into IDP's Dissemination Infrastructure at NCWCP in College Park, MD

16 Achieve NWWS operational capability

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1) Installation of 50 of 143 solid state NWR transmitters2) Establish an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract and procurement for 20 of 50 solid state transmitters for NWR refurbishments and spares3) Move the NWR transmitter and antenna in Guam from Nimitz Hill to Mount Alutom

18 Drivers GOES-R: Baseline Change Request November 2014 Launch

Weather Warning Service

Capabilities

Dissemination Infrastructure

Service Capabilities

Virtualized Application

Service Capabilities

Terrestrial and Satellite Networking

ServiceCapabilities

Post-Launch Testing

#FY 2016

MilestonesFY 2015

GIS and NextGen IT

Web Service Capabilities

DSRC build-out and NCWCP augmentation

NextGen IT Web Services capability at NCWCP

NextGen IT Web Services capability at DSRC

26 CONUS sites 10 OCONUS sites

Installation & product generation capability: Himawari Antenna in Guam

DSRC and NCWCP augmentation & operational maintenance

Contract Awarded

Contract Awarded

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• Fixing and maintaining– Upgrading 133 of 1025 NWR transmitters to solid state transmitters

• Delivering near-term and incremental upgrades– Robust and reliable 7x24 operational IDP dissemination infrastructure in two

geographical diverse locations– Upgrading NWS networks for 4-50 times increases in Internet bandwidth– Operationalizing enterprise GIS services– GOES-R installation upgrades and ground readiness

• Planning and executing long-term solutions– Transition www.weather.gov and other NWS websites to operational IDP dissemination

infrastructure– 100% backup dissemination capabilities with increased capacity to meet growing

demands for NWS environmental products– Conduct a comprehensive network audit of 140 NWS Field Offices to inform planned

acquisitions for to-be NWS network and single points of failures– Single end-to-end managed network that is reliable and meets capacity requirements

Dissemination Portfolio Way Forward/Next Steps

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Discussion / Questions

• Discussion

• Questions and Answers