# Presentation: 138185

## AWIPS Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Monthly Status Meeting

**October 30, 2006**
**Systems Engineering Center**

## Agenda

**OB8 Planning**
***Remaining SREC Activities***
***Documentation Needed ***
***OB8.1 Update***
**DR Team**
***DR Backlog ***
**Next Meeting **
**Action Item Review**

## Remaining OB8 SREC Activates

**Step 10:  Validate/Approve Release Content  (August)**
***Briefed OPS Committee on October 25, 2006.  OB8 was approved.  NCEP was concerned about not including Great Lakes Forecasts and Ensembles, and including ECMWF ***
***Responsibility:  SREC Vice Chair ******(completed)***
**Step 11:  Prepared Change Requests for AWIPS CCB approval (August) **
***Responsibility:  SREC Vice Chair ******(completed)***
**Step 12:  Provide the OCWWS Training Division with approved software build contents for inclusion to the NSTEP process (August) **
***Responsibility: Executive Secretary ******(completed)***
**Step 13:  Identify SREC Focal Points for each OB8 development item (August)**
***Responsibility:  SREC Vice Chair ******(completed)***

## Documentation Needed for OB8

**Need to complete OSIP Documentation for:**
***Infrastructure***
*(xx-xxx) OB8.2:  Transfer of RFC Precipitation Bias Info to RPG (Lynott)*
*(xx-xxx) OB8.3:  Radar Acquisition Improvements (NCF)*
*(xx-xxx) OB8.3:  Port to NCEP GRIB2 Decoder (Gockel)*
***Strategic***
*(xx-xxx) OB8.1:  Aviation Forecast Preparation System (Graf)*
*(05-060) OB8.3:  GIS for RFCs (Graffman)*
*(06-003) OB8.3:  GIS for NWS (Richards)*
*(05-083) OB8.3:  FNMOC Wave Watch Model Guidance (OST – McAloon)*
*(xx-xxx) OB9:  Ensembles (OST - Nandi)*
*(05-081) OB9:  NWS AWIPS Software Training Capability (Training - Magsig)*
*(xx-xxx) OB9:  WHFS SSHP Model*
*(05-038) OB9:  4D Weather Information (Johnston, Graf)*

## Documentation Needed for OB8

**Need to complete OSIP Documentation for:**
***A&C***
*(06-040) OB8.2  NWRWAVE Enhancements (Browning, Nathan)*
*(06-020) OB8.2:  GFE Formatter for WFO Tropical Cyclone Hazard Graphics (Schott)*
*(06-026) OB8.2:  Headline Flexibility for Long Duration Products (Stokols)*
*(06-029) OB8.2:  Attribution phrase in long-duration products (Stokols)*
*(06-042) OB8.2:  Add Lake Effect attribute to GFE (Stokols)*
*(05-042) OB8.3:  Enhance Chat Server (Hopkins)*

## SREC OB8.1 Updates

**Request official nominations ****(Completed)**
***Items on next slide***
**Gather OSIP documentation ****(Completed)**
**Obtain LOE from development organizations ****(in progress)**
***(06-062)  Risk reduction Through GFESuite Pre-Releases – PR (Ward), ER (Novak)***
**Evaluate and Recommend Changes ****(in progress)**
***CONOPS Changes - October 3, 2006 ***

## Process for SREC Updates

**Evaluate and Recommend Changes **
***In progress for the following task:***
*CONOPS Changes - October 3, 2006 *
**Meeting to discuss evaluate the LOE estimates, availability of resources, release schedule, propose options and recommend a change to OB8 baseline**
**Voting members agreed to:**
*Move Next Generation Warning Tool (4 months for GSD) from OB9.X*
*Decrease AWIPS Evolution:  Development Tool Kit Evaluation from 15months to 10 months for GSD*
*Wait until the November 8 Corporate Board meeting before agreeing to any other reductions*

## OB8.1 Update Requested by Development Organization

**Proposed Changes**
***Add to OB8.1***
*Decode and Display HPC QPF Grids*
**Supports prototyping OB8.3 - NCEP Short/Med Range Models  **
***Remove from OB8.1***
*GFE (IFPS Server change GFETEST, Text Formatter - FWF Enhancements and Period Combining Refinement)*
**Fixed with local configurations per Mark Mathewson**
*Notification Server*
**Not a valid task**

## OB8.1 Update Requested by Development Organization

**Proposed Changes**
***Move from OB8.1 to OB8.2***
*NWRWAVE Enhancements*
**Development Organization (CR/OPS) is unable to complete this task within the OB8.1 timeframe.  Need to transition the maintenance of this application to OPS prior to making the OB8.1 proposed changes**
*Fog Monitor:  Monitor Enhancements and Add statistical calculations for users*
**Development Organization (CR/OPS) is unable to complete this task within the OB8.1 timeframe**
*SAFESEAS:  Add NOS tide gage water depth values*
**Development Organization (CR/OPS) is unable to complete this task within the OB8.1 timeframe**
*Gridded MOS (add data elements) *
**Data not available**
*Low Cloud Base Product*
**Data not available**
*Aviation Graphical Products on AWIPS*
**Als0 move OB8.2 task to OB8.3**
**Still working out requirement and working on getting prototype code from GSD**
*AVNFPS: Tactical Decision Aids*
**Need an OSIP task started.  No set of requirements**

## DR team 

**Review of DR Backlog **
***Objective***
*Prioritize Unassigned DRs and Assign to a release*
***Results***
*Planned:  OB8.1 (53 majors and 59 minors)*
**Actual:  (36 majors and 19 minors)**
*Planned:  OB8.2 (51 majors and 26 minors)*
**Actual:  (29 majors and 17 minors)**
*Planned:  OB8.3 (13 Majors and 50 minors)*
**Actual:  (45 majors and 6 minors)**
***DR Team is validating the release assignments***
*Looking to complete this task by October 15, 2006*

## Next Meeting

**Regular meeting on November 27 at 2:00pm EDT**

## Actions

***Old Action Items***
***Review of Charter – Get NWS management to review and approve SREC and DR team charters. ******(in progress)***
***Insure that NWS CONOPS is provided the necessary resources to meet the objectives of the group ******(Working)***