NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE PROJECT

1. NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE PROJECT Presented to: NWS Partners August 5, 2013 Jim McNitt Project Manager Office of Science and Technology National Weather Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Department Of Commerce 1325 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910-3283

2. Background • Weather Radio Improvement Program (WRIP) established as a NWS program (2006) • Phase 1 - System Design and Prototype (2007 – 2008) • Phase 2 - System Development and Deployment (2009 – 2012) • Final detailed design • System Acceptance Test • Pre-Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) • In April 2012, WRIP-2 was established to move NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS) to the NWS dissemination architecture • In May 2013, Office of Science and Technology separated NWWS from NOAA Weather Radio/Broadcast Message Handler (NWR/BMH) and moved the NWWS Project under the Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP)

3. Project Components • NWWS-Sat: Satellite broadcast through AWIPS Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) to end users • End User Client (EUC): EUC software to reside on satellite users’ systems. Functions are: message collection, message archiving, message visualization, and product filtering • Open Interface (OI): Data “push” via internet. Low-cost option for users without stringent delivery requirements . Being developed using existing NWS-Chat capability, and integrated within NWS Internet Dissemination System (NIDS) • National Law Enforcement Telecommunications Systems (NLETS): New software to handle message collection, message transformation based on user profile configurations, and dissemination to NLETS center to support 34 state entities, who redistribute to other state/local emergency managers

4. Systems Architecture

5. NOAA Weather Wire Current System Configuration

6. Milestone Schedule

7. NOAA Weather Wire Future System Configuration

8. NWWS End User Terminal (current compared to new)

10. Questions?