# Presentation: 181807

## NOAA Planning Update 

- NOAA Program Planning and Integration
- Science Advisory Board
- November 3, 2004

- NOAA Planning Update

## Outline

- NOAA Strategic Plan for 2005-2010
- NOAA Program Structure – linking Programs to the Strategic Plan
- Annual Guidance Memorandum
- Associated Planning Documents
- NOAA’s Strategic Organization and PPBES
- FY08 Planning Process – A Look Ahead

## 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

- NOAA Strategic Plan for 2005 – 2010

*NOAA Envisions...*

## To Meet the Challenges... NOAA’s Strategic Plan for 2005 – 2010

***Vision***
***An informed society that uses a comprehensive understanding of the role of the oceans, coasts, and atmosphere to make the best social and economic decisions***** **

_**Ecosystems**_
- Protect, restore & manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystems approach to management

_**Climate**_
- Understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond

_**Weather and Water**_** **
- Serve society’s needs for weather and water information

_**Commerce and Transportation**_
- Support the Nation’s commerce with info for safe, efficient & environmentally sound transportation

- Ensuring Sound, State-of-the-Art Research

- Promoting Environmental Literacy

**Drivers**

- Leading International Activities

_**Supporting NOAA’s**_
_**Mission**_
- Provide Critical Support
- for NOAA’s
- Mission

- Developing, Valuing, and Sustaining a World-Class Workforce

***Mission***
***To understand and predict changes in the Earth’s environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation's economic, social, and environmental needs*****    **

**Strategic Goals**

**Cross-Cutting Priorities**

- Integrating Global Environmental Observation and Data Management

## We’ve Set TheseFive NOAA 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 society’s ability to plan and respond
- Serve society’s needs for weather and water information
- Support the nation’s commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation
- Provide critical support for NOAA’s mission

## Slide 6

## Protect, Restore, and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources through an Ecosystem Approach to Management

- Programs

## Understand Climate Variability and Changeto Enhance  Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond

- Understand Climate Variability and Changeto Enhance  Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond

- Programs

## Serve Society’s Needs for Weather and Water Information 

**Local Forecasts**
**& Warnings**

- Serve Society’s Needs for Weather and Water Information

**Hydrology**

**Air Quality**

**Environmental**
**Modeling**

**Coasts, Estuaries,**
**Ocean**

**Science, Tech.,**
**& Infusion**

**Space Weather**

- Programs

## Support the Nation’s Commerce withInformation for Safe, Efficient, and Environmentally Sound Transportation

**Marine Transp.**
**Systems**

**Commercial &**
**Remote Sensing**
**Licensing**

**Geodesy**

- Support the Nation’s Commerce withInformation for Safe, Efficient, and Environmentally Sound Transportation

**NOAA Emergency**
**Response**

**Surface Weather**

**Marine Weather**

**Aviation Weather**

- Programs

## Supporting NOAA’s Mission

**STRATEGIES**

**1. Provide timely and effective acquisition and delivery of satellite-derived information**
**2. Use effective and efficient approaches to meet NOAA requirements for ship and aircraft support **
**3. Formulate and maintain policies, procedures, plans, and processes **
**4. Coordinate NOAA’s homeland security-related plans, programs, and policies**
**5. Plan for, construct, and maintain facilities **
**6. Lead agency-wide efforts in education and outreach, public affairs, legislative affairs, international affairs, and legal affairs**
** **
**7. Develop and maintain an Information Technology Enterprise **
**8. Employ a planning, programming, budgeting, and execution system to enhance NOAA’s capabilities**
**...**

- Programs

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum

- The AGM
- Guides the transformation of our plans into programs
- Provides the means for setting fiscal priorities
- Assists the decision-making as to where our resources are best spent to achieve our goals
- Addresses significant capability gaps
- The AGM does not
- Provide solutions to “fix” gaps
- Provide assurance that critical gaps will be met
- Provide specific programming direction
- Provide fiscal guidance

## AGM Future DirectionsMeeting our Priorities Through Effective Partnerships

- Taking the Pulse of the Planet – Integrate Global Observations
- Advance NOAA’s Modeling Capability
- Provide Leadership for Our Oceans
- Increase Climate Information, Services, and Products
- Provide Critical Information for Water Resources
- Support the US Transportation Systems
- Enhance Environmental Literacy
- Deliver Effective, Efficient Decision-Support Information

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## AGM EnablersMeeting our Priorities Through Effective Partnerships

- Enhance Skills and Capabilities of NOAA’s Workforce
- Improve Administrative Programs
- Maintain and Provide Necessary Platforms
- Improve Critical Infrastructure and Services
- Advance the Use of Technology

## Strategic Plans

- DOC Strategic Plan

- NOAA Strategic Plan

- Council Strategic Plans

- Line & Staff Office

- Goal 3: Observe, protect, and manage the Earth’s resources to promote environmental stewardship

- Goals and Strategies

- Cross-cut priorities

- Human Capital Council
- Observing Systems Council
- Research Council
- Education Council
- International Affairs Council

**Notes:**
First start with the long term outcomes  - these are the results to be achieved in 5 to 10 years.  These may be your program’s 100% requirement.

To make it more understandable and real most suggest creating mid-term outcomes to describe results for 1 to 5 years.  If you can we suggest creating some mid-term outcomes.

Last the Short-term Outcomes are the results to be achieved within one year.  These may only be milestones and are very dependent on funding and other resources. PART requires these and so does the DUS for the monthly and quarterly reviews.

## NOAA’s Strategic Organization

## PPBES

- Planning

- Programming

- Budgeting

- Execution

- Closeout

**Adjust goal & **
**strategies as **
**necessary**
**Assess baseline**
**compared to **
**goals **
**Set priorities**

**NOAA Strategic**
**Plan**
**Annual**
**Guidance **
**Memorandum**

**Determine **
**optimal use of**
**resources**

**Request **
**resources**
**and adjust**
**plan as **
**necessary**

**Execute, assess,**
**adjust, and**
**report**

**Annual **
**Review**

**NOAA**
**Program**
**Plan**

**NOAA **
**Budget**
**DOC Budget**
**President’s**
**Budget**
**Appropriation**

**Program Annual**
**Operating Plans**
**(AOPs)**
**Line & Staff **
**Office AOPs**
**Employee**
**Performance **
**Plans**

**Audit**
**Business report**
**Program reports**
**Employee**
**appraisals**

**Functions**

**Products**

- 2.5 years prior to Execution Year

**Notes:**
First start with the long term outcomes  - these are the results to be achieved in 5 to 10 years.  These may be your program’s 100% requirement.

To make it more understandable and real most suggest creating mid-term outcomes to describe results for 1 to 5 years.  If you can we suggest creating some mid-term outcomes.

Last the Short-term Outcomes are the results to be achieved within one year.  These may only be milestones and are very dependent on funding and other resources. PART requires these and so does the DUS for the monthly and quarterly reviews.

## FY08 Planning – A Look Ahead

- Planning Phase to run March – August 2005
- Priorities for Planning:
- More effective coordination with external partners
- More time for external review of AGM

## Summary

- Summary

- NOAA Planning Phase effectively linking through to Execution Phase
- Draft Line Office Strategic Plans out for review until November 30 (http://www.spo.noaa.gov/losps.htm)
- FY08 planning goal – target more partner participation

## Backup slides

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum:Future Directions

- 	Taking the pulse of the planet – Integrate Global Observations
- Provide leadership to develop and implement national interagency systems
- Develop IOOS as a major component of the US contribution to GEOSS
- Focus on connecting and strengthening existing observations systems
- Ensure continuity of observations
- Develop new techniques and measurements
- Use analysis capabilities to ensure collected data are optimal
- Employ consistent data management strategy that handle large data volumes expected from GEOSS
- Move proven systems into operations
- Direct resources and research toward exploring new technologies
- Form ecosystem component of GEOSS
- Diversify observations to make efficient use of vessels and other platforms
- Leverage platforms for multi-purpose observations
- Implement an observing and data management system that ensures data flow to our customers

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum:Future Directions

- 	Advance NOAA’s Modeling Capability

- Develop a world-class environmental modeling capability with required high-performance computing infrastructure
- Support research to operations
- Develop and apply advance data assimilation techniques
- Adopt a modeling framework that supports estuaries, oceans, weather, and climate change and extends to ecosystems as the science matures
- Support increasing data inputs from GEOSS
- Enhance model resolution

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum:Future Directions

- 	Provide Leadership for the Oceans

- Develop and implement an ecosystems approach to management
- Strengthen partnerships at local and regional levels
- Improve existing regional coordination across NOAA and with other agencies
- Invest in research and development to understand ecosystem function
- Continue to meet our mandates to rebuild and sustain fishery stocks
- Continue lead role in monitoring, managing, and conservation of known population and protected areas
- Strengthen recovery planning for protected species
- Conduct ecological and socioeconomic risk-benefit assessments
- Advance decision-support tools
- Perform a systems analysis to guide our efforts
- Create environmental standards and evaluation protocols for aquaculture

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum:Future Directions

- Increase Climate Information, Services, and Products

- Support Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) synthesis product generation
- Support the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments
- Provide long-term and process oriented research to support CCSP and IPCC
- Build on established climate prediction capabilities by focusing on specific regional and local services
- Deliver climate-relevant information, service, and products on long- and short-term scales
- Promote the transition of research findings to products and services
- Provide an early warning capability for climate extremes
- Develop test-bed concept to support the transition of research into operations
- Actively Participate in the International Polar Year

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum:Future Directions

- Provide Critical Information for Water Resources

- Deliver observations and forecast products on the quality of water in the coastal zone
- Provide leadership in order to develop a comprehensive framework for the delivery of water resource information
- Develop and implement a comprehensive framework for water resource information and prediction delivery
- Improve short-term stream flow and long-term water supply predictions

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum:Future Directions

- Support the US Transportation Systems

- Identify valid user needs that cannot be met with existing information
- Increase and improve products and services that support transportation systems
- Work with partners to conduct research and development in weather and geo-positioning
- Improve the translation of research into operational value

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum:Future Directions

- Enhance Environmental Literacy

- Develop sustainable education activities
- Enhance partnerships with informal education entities
- Increase participation by underrepresented groups
- Evaluate existing NOAA education materials
- Expand teacher professional development efforts
- Increase learning opportunities for students
- Improve collaboration researchers
- Increase fellowship and internship opportunities
- Increase coordination with other federal agencies

## FY07 Annual Guidance Memorandum:Future Directions

- 	Deliver Effective, Efficient Decision-Support Information

- Maximize the contribution of science and technology
- Investigate, develop, and expand use of new technologies
- Integrate information across disciplines and organizational elements as driven by customer needs
- Deliver effective products and services to support decision makers
- Review operational concepts and identify opportunities for efficiencies

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