Town Hall

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Town Hall
Seattle

• VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., USN (Ret.)
• Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and
  Atmosphere NOAA Administrator
• July 7, 2005

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Current Environment

• Update to Strategic Plan
• Employee Information
• New Leadership, Congress
• Budget Outlook
• NOAA Organizational Structure
• New Ecosystem Panel

• SES Summit II
• Global Earth Observing System of SystemsGEOSS
• Current Events
• NOAA Accomplishments

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Update to NOAAs Strategic Plan

• An informed society that uses a comprehensive
  understanding of the role of the oceans, coasts
  and atmosphere in the global ecosystem to make
  the best social and economic decisions
• NOAAs 5-Year Research Plannew in January 2005
• NOAAs 20-Year Research Visionnew in January 2005

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Update to NOAAs Strategic Plan NOAAs Mission
Goals

• To understand and predict changes in the Earths
  environment and conserve and manage coastal and
  marine resources to meet the Nations economic,
  social and environmental needs
• Mission Goals
• Protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal
  and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach
  to management
• Understand climate variability and change to
  enhance societys ability to plan and respond
• Serve societys needs for weather and water
  information
• Support the Nations commerce with information
  for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound
  transportation
• Provide critical support for NOAAs mission

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Employee Information

• Workforce Management
• Eddie Ribas, new WMO Director
• QuickHire

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New QuickHire Login Screen
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Employee InformationGrants Online

• Online Operational
• All cost and no-cost award action requests being
  processed
• All system problems have been fixed
• Training
• Grants Management Division staff has been
  provided comprehensive training
• Dedicated weekly training and support time being
  provided in GMD
• Web-based training specific to different system
  users
• Telephone help-desk
• On-going process for identifying and fixing
  problems
• Configuration Change Board assembling desirable
  future enhancements to improve system

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Employee InformationPay Banding Demonstration
Project

• NOAA working with Office of Personnel Management
  (OPM) to expand participation under the
  guidelines used by the DOC Pay Banding
  Demonstration project
• In order to make this demo project permanent,
  NOAA is seeking OPMs approval to change from a
  demo project to an Alternate Personnel System
• OPM has the next action
• NOAAs Workforce Management Office will conduct
  the necessary management and employee briefings,
  including negotiating terms with our bargaining
  units

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Employee Information NOAA Aviation Safety

• November 29, 2004 Safety Stand-Down
• July 1, 2005, Aviation Safety Policy (NAO)
  NEC-approved, full implementation required by
  October 1, 2006
• Establishes a corporate NOAA Aviation Safety
  Board Aviation Safety Program
• Brings NOAA into compliance with 41 CFR 102-33
  Management of Government Aircraft
• Provides for Aviation Safety Management
• Interim Directive continuing safety stand-down

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New Leadership Congress

• New Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Acting Deputy
  Secretary Dr. David Sampson
• Committee highlights
• Retired Ernest Hollings
• Term Limited Ted Stevens as Senate
  Appropriations Chair (still a member)
• New Thad CochranSenate Appropriations Chair
• New Richard Shelby (R) Barbara Mikulski
  (D)Appropriations Subcommittee Leaders
• New Jerry LewisHouse Appropriations Chair
• New Ted StevensCommerce Chair
• New InouyeCommerce (co-chair) and
  Appropriations
• Committee change
• NASA/NSF now part of Senate Commerce, Justice and
  Science Appropriations Subcommittee

Gutierrez
Sampson
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New Leadership Congress

• Colleen Hartman (NESDIS DAA) to NASA
• Rebecca Lent (NMFS DAA) to head NMFS IA
• replaced by Jim Balsiger
• Mike Sissenwine (NMFS Director of Scientific
  Programs) retired
• (replaced by Steve Murawski)
• Rollie Schmitten (NMFS Habitat Director) retired
• Laurie Allen (NMFS PR Director) retired
• replaced by Jim Lecky

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Budget OutlookHistorical NOAA Budget Trends
( in Billions)
4.5
3.4
Senate Mark
House Mark
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Budget Update Where We Rank For 2005
Agencies with the biggest increases over the
Presidents 2005 budget request...
...and those with the biggest cuts
Agency Increases
Veterans Affairs 1.2B
Army Corps of Engineers 585M
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 567M
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 336M
Agency Cuts
Education/local education 500M
Federal Aviation Administration 335M
Energy Departments Yucca Mountain Project 303M
Environmental Protection Agency 275M
National Science Foundation 105M
Energy Departments Biological Environmental Research Program 69.5M
Federal Times, November 29, 2004
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NOAA Organizational Structure
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NOAA Organizational Structure
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SES Summit IIHighlights

• Transparency of Mission
• Improved Internal Practices
• NOAA Management actively listens to employees,
  incorporates feedback into practices
• Employees understand endorse the mission
  ensures long-term care feeding of NOAA
• Improved External Practices
• External partners have stake in the outcome and
  drive internal administrative requirements
• Enhance connections to constituents to ensure we
  are giving our customers what they want
• Buy-in from community/stakeholders puts Average
  Joe in NOAAs Corner

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SES Summit IIIntegration Moving Forward Under
Fiscal Restraint

• Re-purpose existing systems and capitalize on new
  developments, technologies, external partners
• Linkages between programs facilitate economic
  scientific efficiencies
• NOAA products and services integrate and meet
  societys increasingly complex needs
• Partnering with other federal, state, local
  agencies advance domestic and international
  agendaskey opportunities on the horizon to work
  closely with DoE, DHS

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SES Summit II Communication

• How well we talk to each other is a key barometer
  of how well NOAA is functioning.
• Effective Managers know what to put into the
  hands of employees so there can then be clarity
  at all levels

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What is GEOSS?Global Earth Observing System of
Systems
End To End System
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What is GEOSS?Global Earth Observing System of
Systems

• GEOSS is a distributed system of systems built on
  current international cooperation efforts among
  existing Earth observing and processing systems
• GEOSS is
• Comprehensiveobservations and products from all
  components
• Coordinatedleverages contributing members
  resources
• Sustainedby will and capacity of all members
• GEOSS enables the collection and distribution of
  accurate, reliable Earth Observation data,
  information, products, and services to both
  suppliers and consumers worldwidean end-to-end
  process

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Why GEOSS?Global Earth Observing System of
Systems
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NOAAs Role in GEOSS

• NOAA Where Science Creates Value
• Earth observations
• Are at the core of NOAAs mission
• Support virtually every activity we perform
• NOAA has
• Observing capabilities being advanced through
  scientific and technological research
• A broad scope of domestic and international
  partnerships
• Commitment to transform research into useful,
  operational information

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GEO IGeneva, Switzerland

• First meeting of new GEO at WMO headquarters on
  May 2-3
• GEO agreed to 12 member Executive Committee
• Tsunami Update from IOC
• ExCom 1 and ExCom 2
• GEO II - December 2005

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Recent GEO Highlights

• GEO Director selected José Achache
• Former head of Earth observation, European Space
  Agency
• Long-time NOAA partner
• Outreach in Europeas Co-chair of GEO,
  addressed
• ISRSE
• WMO
• IOC
• IEEE

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U.S. Plan For An Improved Tsunami Monitoring
System

• 37.5M over next 2 years
• Enable enhanced monitoring, detection, warning
  communications throughout
• Advanced technology DART buoys
• Nearly 100 coverage for U.S. coastal tsunami
• Expanded monitoring capability throughout Pacific
  Caribbean basins
• Part of future global observation global
  tsunami warning systems

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The U.S. Tsunami Warning ProgramHighlights

• Shift TWC operations from 8hr shift/24hr on-call
  to 24x7x365 staffing
• 6 DART Stations to an end-state of 39
• Add 16 new gauges to existing NWLON and upgrade
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• Work with USGS to expand seismic detection
  capability
• Develop forecast models and maps for 15 high risk
  areas by summer 2007
• Ensure 100 of tsunami threatened communities
  identified and contacted TsunamiReady program

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Current EventsNew England Red Tide

• NOAA support
• Monitoring
• Funding from NOS for sampling
• Research
• Seafood Inspection Program
• Real time tracking of the bloom
• Commercial Fishery Failure Determination
• Massachusetts June 16, 2005
• Maine June 22, 2005
• ER closure
• filed June 14, published June 16
  (correctionfiled July 1, publish July 7)

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Current EventsNational Offshore Aquaculture Act
of 2005

• June 7, 2005
• Provides the necessary authority to the Secretary
  of Commerce to establish, implement and enforce a
  regulatory system for offshore aquaculture
• Fulfills the Administrations U.S. Ocean Action
  Plan commitment to propose legislation in the
  109th Congress
• Senators Stevens and Inouye introduced the bill
  by request with amendments

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Current EventsHENRY B. BIGELOW

• Will be christened in Moss Point, MS July 8th
• Placed into operation in the Northeast in late
  2006
• Today construction is beginning on FSV3
• Just a few weeks ago, OSCAR DYSON, was
  commissioned
• These are significant milestones in the
  modernization of the NOAA Fleet

OSCAR DYSON
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NOAAs AccomplishmentsMission and Process

• Mission Successes
• National and international leadership in Earth
  observations
• Hurricane support wins Senate commendation,
  supplemental appropriation
• Rebuilding the Nations fisheries
• Development of the Integrated Ocean Observing
  System
• Fisheries regulatory process improvements
• NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards improves and
  expands
• Coral reef initiative
• NOAA fleet modernization and growth

• Organizational Successes
• Program review conducted
• NEC and NEP established
• Program structure comprehensively covering all
  NOAA resources established with 14 matrix
  programs
• Goal Leads appointed
• Full Council structure established
• PAE established
• Annual update of the Strategic Plan
• Line Office Strategic Plans in alignment with
  NOAA Strategic Plan

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NOAAs AccomplishmentsMission and Process

• Mission Successes
• 854 U.S. COSPAS-SARSAT saves since 2001
• Sea turtle conservation
• Operational air quality forecasts in Northeast
  United States
• Early Warning System for Florida Harmful Algal
  Blooms
• Homeland security support
• Reducing national uncertainty about climate
  change
• Teacher at Sea Program expands into air
• Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Level II Radar
  Data Available in Real Time

• Organizational Successes
• Councils produce multi-year strategic plans
• Full PPBES cycle for FY06-11
• Annual Operating Plans for all matrix programs
• Monthly and quarterly execution reporting
• Comprehensive review of administrative functions
  business process re-engineering initiated
• Grants on-line implementation
• 5 Year Research Plan
• 20 Year Research Vision
• Transition Policy

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What You Should Take Away

• The Future.is Bright!!!
• NOAA is
• An Effective, Successful Organization With
  World-wide Recognition
• Composed of Talented, Experienced Dedicated
  People
• Critical to Meeting the Nations the Worlds
  Economic Environmental Challenges
• Organizationally Positioned to Provide Leadership
  
• Where Science Gains Value
• NOAA is All of Us Working Together With a Unified
  Vision Consistent Message

Thank you for your service!
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Got Questions...?
AskTheBoss_at_noaa.gov
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Stakeholder ForumMarch 2, 2005, Washington

• 230 Stakeholders Attended
• Transportation (Marine, Air, Surface)
• Fisheries
• Weather
• Marine Protected Areas
• Education North Carolina State Dept. of Math!
• Federal State Agencies Library of Congress!
  Forest Service!
• Academia/Research
• Information Technology Cray Computer!
• Others Walt Disney! Merrill Lynch! Audubon
  Society! Red Cross!
• 59 Final Recommendations
• Distilled from hundreds of comments
• Distributed across 7 breakout sessions

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NOAA in the Media

• Director Of NOAAs National Hurricane Center
  Presented With Emmy Award
• Max Mayfield, director of NOAAs National
  Hurricane Center

Gutierrez at NHC
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NOAA in the Media Tsunami Coverage/NOAA in the
News
VADM Lautenbacher Fox News
Chip McCrery Dateline
Eddie Bernard Larry King Live
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NOAA Homeland Security Operations Support
(HSOC)2005 Presidential Inauguration

• Lead Federal Agency for Meteorological Support
• Supplemental rawinsonde (Weather Balloon) mission
• DCNET
• HAZMAT Support

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Thinking Corporate NOAAClimateExisting Program
Aligning to Model
LEADERSHIP
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Thinking Corporate NOAACoasts, Estuaries
OceansNew in FY07
LEADERSHIP
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U.S. Ocean Action Plan

• Highlights
• Establish Committee on Ocean Policy
• Develop Ocean Research Priorities Plan and
  Implementation Strategy
• Build an Ocean Observing System
• Develop and Deploy New State-of-the-Art Research
  Vessels
• Continue Support for Market-Based Management of
  Fisheries
• Support Accession to the UN Convention on the Law
  of the Sea

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Employee InformationAllocation and Modernization
Plans

• Allocation
• Fleet Services held allocation training for
  Program Managers and Goal Leads
• Platform allocation is more closely aligned with
  the PPBES process and out year planning
• PPBES necessitates that goal teams set priorities
  for fleet which receives more platform requests
  than can be meet
• Platform Modernization Plans
• NMAO has developed ten year ship and aircraft
  modernization plans
• These draft plans will be provided to the Hill in
  response to the FY 2005 Senate Appropriations
  mark request
• They will also be used in the planning phase of
  the FY08-12 PPBES process