# Presentation: 754125

## Session 6: Way Ahead to Address MPAR Risk Reduction—Implementation Strategy and Interagency Management Approach

**Moderator:  **
**   ****Dr. Paul D. Try,  Science and Technology Corporation **
** **
** ****Panelists:**
**    ****Dr. Jeffrey Kimpel, **
**    ****National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA**
**	** **Mr. Bill Benner, **
**Weather Group Manager, **
**Aviation Weather Office****, FAA **
**	****Mr. Kevin ‘Spanky’ Kirsch****, **
**    ****Director, Office of Special Programs,**** DHS**

## Session 6: Way Ahead to Address MPAR Risk Reduction—Implementation Strategy and Interagency Management Approach

**Session 6: Way Ahead to Address MPAR Risk Reduction—Implementation Strategy and Interagency Management Approach**

_**Primary Discussion Areas for Consensus**_

**  ****Sufficient Feasibility to Establish Risk Reduction Program**
**  ****Implementation Strategy: **
**Initial Priority Risk Reduction Areas:**
**        ****-- Technology Demonstration & Testing**
**-- Multi-functionality and ****Testing**
**        ****-- System Costs**** – Business Case**
**        ****-- Trade Studies **
**Demonstration Points & Early Results?**

** ****Interagency Management Approach**
**--  Format: **
**	****--- OMB/OFCM past NEXRAD process ****(OMB/OFCM-NPC/JSPO)**
**	****--- Multi-Lateral Agency**
**	****--- ****PD/Congressional Mandated**
**	**
**--  Address Urgency Issues**

- Overarching Requirements Identified Here **(Further Detailed Rqmts to be Fleshed Out):**
**(No Gaps; Improve Fcsts & Lead Time; Reduce L/C Costs; BU&NonCoop Surveillance)**

## Background

**DOC Administrative Order**

**OFCM formed in 1964**

**1963**

**1964**

**Accountable to Congress and OMB**
**Coordinate agency budgets**
**Report budgets and activities in annual Federal Plan**

- OFCM

***Historical Perspective***

**GAO Study Revitalizes OFCM**

**1979**

**Notes:**
OFCM CREATED DUE TO CONCERN IN EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND CONGRESS OVER THE PROLIFERATION OF METEOROLOGICAL PROGRAMS IN THE FEDERAL GOV’T

ACCELERATING GROWTH OF EXPENDITURES...NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE EXISTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR PLANNING AND COORDINATING THESE PROGRAMS...ESTABLISH POLICY

CONGRESS EXPRESSED CONCERNS AND PUT IN PLACE A FRAMEWORK OF ORGANIZATION TO PROVIDE OVERSIGHT IN PL-87-843.........DOC APPROPRIATIONS ACT OF 1963
-  OFCM ACCOUNTABLE TO CONGRESS AND OMB
-  OFCM FACILITATES INTERAGENCY COORDINATION
-  OFCM CONSOLIDATES BUDGET ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT 

LETS LOOK AT HOW  OFCM OPERATES

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## Coordinating Infrastructure

**Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (FCMSSR)**

**Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (ICMSSR)**

_**Federal Coordinator for Meteorology**_

**Standing Committees**

**Program Councils**

**National Space Weather Program**

**National Aviation Weather Program**

**Environmental Services, Operations, and Research Needs**

**Operational Processing Centers**

**Environmental Information Systems and Communications**

**Integrated Observing Systems**

**Climate Analysis, Monitoring and Services**

**Cooperative Research**

**Working Group for Environmental Support to Homeland Security**

**Notes:**
FINALLY....THE COORDINATING INFRASTRUCTURE--WITH POLICY GUIDANCE PROVIDED BY THE FCMSSR-- IS ORGANIZED TO MATCH THE PARTNER AGENCIES’ PRIORITIES

-  ONE OF THE EXAMPLES OF SUCCESSES DERIVED FROM USING THIS COORDINATING INFRASTRUCTURE APPROACH WAS THE NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADAR (NEXRAD), THE WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-88 DOPPLER.

-  WHEN THE NEXRAD SYSTEM  WAS BEING DEVELOPED AND FIELDED, WE HAD A NEXRAD PROGRAM COUNCIL AS PART OF OUR COORDINATING INFRASTRUCTURE...SIMILAR TO OUR CURRENT AVIATION AND SPACE WEATHER PROGRAM COUNCILS 

- LATER,  WE WILL USE THE NEXRAD PROGRAM  AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW USER INPUT SHAPED THE POLICY THAT GUIDED THE PROGRAM

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OTHER SUCCESSES TO BRIEF IF YOU HAVE TIME:
-  NATIONAL AIRCRAFT ICING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
-  NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEM
-  AUTOMATED WEATHER INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AWIS)
-  AUTOMATED SURFACE OBSERVING SYSTEM (ASOS)

## Next Generation Weather Radar  (NEXRAD):
WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar 88 Doppler) 

- WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar 88 Doppler)

- The NEXRAD Program Example

-   158 operational weather radars
-   located in 50 states plus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       selected overseas locations
-   estimated program cost of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3 billion dollars
-   tri-agency effort guided                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        through an OFCM Program                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Council

**Notes:**
THE NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADAR  (NEXRAD):
WSR-88D (WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR 88 DOPPLER)  

DURING THE LATE 1970’S DOD, DOT, AND DOC RECOGNIZED AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET A CRITICAL NEED FOR IMPROVED SEVERE WEATHER WARNING CAPABILITIES WITH A WEATHER APPLICATION OF DOPPLER TECHNOLOGY

INFORMAL, EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND R&D WORK ON USING DOPPLER RADAR TECHNOLOGY BEGAN USING REPROGRAMMED RESOURCES FROM SEVERAL AGENCIES,  WITH AN ACTUAL NEW PROGRAM GAINING CONGRESSIONAL FUNDING IN 1981, AFTER AN OMB STUDY AND APPROVAL.

EVENTUALLY, 158 RADARS WERE FIELDED IN ALL 50 STATES PLUS 5 OVERSEAS AREAS

THE TOTAL COST OF THE PROGRAM IS ESTIMATED AT 3 BILLION DOLLARS, WITH SOME COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH NWS FIELD OFFICE START UPS OR IMPROVEMENTS TO ACCOMPLISH THE PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

OVERSIGHT OF THE PROGRAM WAS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH AN OFCM CHARTERED PROGRAM COUNCIL MADE UP OF PARTICIPATING AGENCIES

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## Session 6: Way Ahead to Address MPAR Risk Reduction—Implementation Strategy and Interagency Management Approach

**Session 6: Way Ahead to Address MPAR Risk Reduction—Implementation Strategy and Interagency Management Approach**

_**Primary Discussion Areas for Consensus**_

**  ****Sufficient Feasibility to Establish Risk Reduction Program**
**  ****Implementation Strategy: **
**Initial Priority Risk Reduction Areas:**
**        ****-- Technolgy Demonstration & Testing**
**-- Multi-functionality and ****Testing**
**        ****-- System Costs**** – Business Case**
**        ****-- Trade Studies **
**Demonstration Points & Early Results?**

** ****Interagency Management Approach**
**--  Format: **
**	****--- OMB/OFCM past NEXRAD process ****(OMB/OFCM-NPC/JSPO)**
**	****--- Multi-Lateral Agency**
**	****--- ****PD/Congressional Mandated**
**	**
**--  Address Urgency Issues**

- Overarching Requirements Identified Here **(Further Detailed Rqmts to be Fleshed Out):**
**(No Gaps; Improve Fcsts & Lead Time; Reduce L/C Costs; BU&NonCoop Surveillance)**

- Backup Only

## Federal Research and Development Needs and Priorities forPhased Array Radar FCM-R25-2006

**Recommendation 1. **The FCMSSR should endorse the concept of an MPAR risk reduction R&D program that substantially incorporates the objectives and the three
-        components of the plan outlined in chapter 6.
**Recommendation 2. **The FCMSSR should consider organizational options to foster
-        collaborative and joint R&D on the MPAR risk-reduction activities by establishing a joint entity, such as a Joint National Center for Advanced Radar Research and Development, to manage agencies’ contributions to the risk-reduction program outlined in this report.
**Recommendation 3. **For the period prior to operational standup of a joint management entity, the FCMSSR should direct OFCM to form an interagency MPAR Working Group (WG/MPAR) within the OFCM infrastructure to coordinate and report on the R&D activities of participating agencies in implementing an MPAR risk-reduction program.
**Recommendation 4**. The FCMSSR should direct that, in conjunction with the MPAR
-        risk-reduction program, a cost-benefit analysis be undertaken to establish the cost effectiveness of the MPAR option and competing domestic radar strategies. The basis for MPAR acquisition and life-cycle costs should include results from the technology development and test activities and the MPAR network refinement, as appropriate.