Vice Admiral Conrad C' Lautenbacher, Jr', U'S' Navy Ret'

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• Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S.
  Navy (Ret.)
• Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and
  Atmosphere NOAA Administrator
• August 29th, 2007

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Menu

• NOAA in 2007
• Funding Trends and Priorities
• NOAA in Congress
• Recent Successes
• 200 Years of Science, Service and Stewardship
• NOAAs Best Asset People
• NOAA Workforce
• Succession Planning
• Positioning NOAA
• Code of Ethics
• Leadership Philosophies
• Leadership Through Education

• Our Challenges
• Breaking Down Stovepipes
• Managing Cross-Line Issues
• Integrating Earth Observations Systems
• Climate Change
• Drought
• Hurricanes
• Protecting Ecosystems and Habitat
• Reaching our Customers
• Closing Thoughts

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NOAA Funding Trends
( in Billions)

In FY03, the House did not report or pass an
SJC appropriations bill. The House-Introduced
bill total is used here.
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NOAA Priorities

• Sustaining Critical Operations
• Enhancing Climate Monitoring and Research
• Improving Weather Warnings and Forecasts
• Supporting the Ocean Action Plan
• Investing in Critical Facilities

GOES-N
TAO
CarbonTracker
DART II
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Key Legislation
Aquaculture

• Coastal Zone Management Act
• Coral Reef Ecosystems Conservation Amendments
  Act
• National Marine Sanctuaries Amendment Act
• National Offshore Aquaculture Act
• NOAA Organic Act
• Hydrographic Services Improvement Act
• Marine Mammal Protection Amendments Act
• Cooperative Conservation of Marine, Estuarine,
  Coastal, and Riverine Habitat Act

Florida Keys Sanctuary
Tide Gauges
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Recent Accomplishments

• Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National
  Monument
• Reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Act
• International Whaling Commission
• GOES-N Satellite Launched

Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal
GOES-N Launch
Humpback Whale
NWHI Marine National Monument
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Recent Accomplishments

• Fleet Modernization
• FSV HENRY B. BIGELOW
• FSV PISCES
• FSV BELL M. SHIMADA
• Dart II Buoys
• Ocean Research Priorities Plan

HENRY B. BIGELOW
DART II Buoy
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NOAA 200th Celebration Foundations Laid,
Legacies to Carry Forward
U.S. Survey of the Coast1807
U.S. Weather Bureau1870
OAR1955
U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries1871
Dr, Susan Solomon
NESDIS1958
NPOESS
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NOAAs Best AssetOur People
OAR OMAO _at_ OKEANOS EXPLORERSeattle, WA
NESDISCO
Mauna Loa ObservatoryHI
NMFSJuneau, AK
Thank You Ocean DayCA
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NOAA Workforce
Of NOAAs 12557 employees 8292 have Bachelors
degrees 3638 have Masters degrees 1047 have
Ph.Ds.
58 of NOAAs Workforce are in scientific and
technical occupations
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Succession Planning
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything.
Plans don't accomplish anything, either.
Theories of management don't much matter.
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people
involved. Only by attracting the best people
will you accomplish great deeds. General Colin
Powell, U.S. Army (Ret.)
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NOAA Retirement Eligibility in 2009
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Retirement Eligibility in 2009 (GS 13)
During 20092012 approximately 50 of the
retirement eligible employees will retire
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Reality CheckPlanning for Future Success

• How can we prepare?
• Develop the people who work for you
• Leadership Competencies Development Program
• DOC Executive Leadership Development Program
• Program Coordination Office
• NOAA Leadership Seminar
• ????

LCDP
PCO
The bus willcome for all of us
NLS
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Leadership Principles for Future
SuccessLeadership Philosophy
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Leadership Principles for Future Success
Leadership Philosophy
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Leadership Principles for Future Success Colin
Powells Leadership Philosophy

• Never neglect details. When everyones mind is
  dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly
  vigilant.
• Keep looking below surface appearances. Dont
  shrink from doing so (just) because you might
  not like what you find.
• Never let your ego get so close to your position
  that when your position goes, your ego goes with
  it.
• The day your team stops bringing you their
  problems is the day you have stopped leading
  them. They have either lost confidence that you
  can help them or concluded that you do not care.
  Either case is a failure of leadership.

Source American Management Association magazine
Management Review
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Leadership Principles for Future Success Colin
Powells Leadership Philosophy

• Fit no stereotypes. Dont chase the latest
  management fads. The situation dictates which
  approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
• Have fun in your command. Dont always run at a
  breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it.
  Spend time with your families.
• Corollary Surround yourself with people who take
  their work seriously, but not themselves, those
  who work hard and play hard.

Source American Management Association magazine
Management Review
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Leadership Principles for Future SuccessJack
Welchs Leadership Philosophy

• 6 Basic Rules
• Control your destiny, or someone else will
• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you
  wish it were.
• Be candid with everyone
• Dont manage, lead.
• Change before you have to
• If you dont have a competitive advantage, dont
  compete

Source Secret to Success. Can you guess It/
Hint Jack Welch Know It. By Bill Streeter
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Leadership Principles for Future Success
Shackletons Leadership Philosophy

• Never lose sight of the ultimate goal, and focus
  energy on short-term objectives
• Set a personal example with visible, memorable
  symbols and behaviors
• Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay
  grounded in reality.
• Take care of yourself Maintain your stamina and
  let go of guilt.
• Reinforce the team message constantly We are
  one-we live or die together.
• Minimize status differences and insist on
  courtesy and mutual respect.
• Master conflict-deal with anger in small does,
  engage dissidents, and avoid needless power
  struggles.
• Find something to celebrate and something to
  laugh about.
• Be willing to take the Big Risk.
• Never give up-theres always another move.

Source Leading at the Edge By Dennis N.T.
Perkins
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Leading into the Future for SuccessEducating
Others

• Educate at the community level connecting with
  people to make the case for safety, welfare and
  quality of life
• Educate the commercial sector make the business
  case for the environment and recognize the
  environment for business
• Educate the policy makers place in context of
  societal concerns
• Educate the organization understand what other
  offices do and how you influence each other

ENGAGEMENT
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Our ChallengesFrom Stovepipes to Matrix
Management
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R E G I O N A L C O L L A B O R A T I O N
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Our ChallengesRegional Collaboration

• Goals of Regional Collaboration
• Improved services for the benefit of NOAAs
  customers
• Increased value and productivity of partnerships
• Improved stakeholder relations and support
• Improved internal communications and efficiency
  across line offices and programs
• A more visible and valued NOAA

National Priorities
2007 Regional Framework
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Our ChallengesManaging Cross Line Issues
NWS
OMAO
NESDIS
OAR
OAR
NESDIS
OAR
OMAO
NWS
NOS
NESDIS
OAR
OAR
NOS
NMFS
NWS
OMAO
NESDIS
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Our ChallengesIntegrating Earth Observation
Systems

• Example IOOS
• Observation platforms
• Buoys and tide gaugesNOS
• Ships and planesOMAO
• SatellitesNESDIS
• Data collection and analysisOAR
• Fisheries surveysNMFS
• The success of IOOS depends upon the
  participation of all line offices!

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Our ChallengesClimate

• Monitoring impacts of ocean temperatures on
  ecosystemsNFMS
• Developing Climate ModelsOAR
• Monitoring Climate TrendsNWS, NESDIS
• Monitoring sea level riseNOS

AGMNew mandates at local, state, and national
levels to address a changing climate include
efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and
develop an integrated climate - air quality
emission management strategies.
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Our ChallengesDrought
Monitoring and predicting droughtNCEP, NCDC,
GFDL, ESRL Preparing communitiesNWS field
offices, NCDC, Sea Grant Extension EducationWFOs,
NCO, NCDC, NWS Climate Services.
The worst drought in over a century has farmers
averting their gaze from a future that looks as
bleak as their fields. July 4, 2007 U.S. News,
NYT
NIDIS Report Adopted by Western Governors
Association
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Our ChallengesHurricanes
Katrina Forecast Track

• Models, Observations InputsOAR, OMAO, NESDIS
• ForecastsNWS OMAO
• Navigation Safety Oil Spill ResponseNOS
• Wetland Restoration Fisheries RecoveryNMFS

GFDL Coupled Model Forecast
Satellite Coverage of NOLA Wetlands
OMAO WP-3D Hurricane Hunter
Altair UAV
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Our ChallengesProtecting Ecosystems Habitat
Derelict Fishing GearHawaii
Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem
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Our ChallengesDelivering NOAA Products
How We Do Business Now
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Our ChallengesDelivering NOAA Products
How We Can Improve Our Business
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Our ChallengesDelivering NOAA Products
How We Should Do Business
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Closing Thoughts

• Practice inclusive, not exclusive, leadership
• Keep your doors and minds open
• Select and cultivate independent and motivated
  workers
• Take considered, decisive action
• Consider our challenges and devise ways to
  address them

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Closing Thoughts

• It is not the critic who counts not the man who
  points out the strong man stumbles or where the
  doer of deeds could have done better. The credit
  belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
  whose face is married by dust and sweet and
  blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes
  up short again and again, because there is no
  effort without error or shortcomings, but who
  knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
  who spends himself for a worthy cause who , at
  the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while
  daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
  with those cold and timid souls who knew neither
  victory nor defeat

Citizenship in a Republic Speech at the
Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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