# Presentation: 690757

## Background

**DOC Administrative Order**

**OFCM formed in Jan 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 WAS CREATED DUE TO CONCERN IN EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND CONGRESS OVER THE PROLIFERATION OF METEOROLOGICAL PROGRAMS IN THE FED GOV’T

THIS CONCERN WAS FIRST EXPRESSED IN THE FORM OF A STUDY REQUESTED BY CONGRESS TO LOOK INTO THIS MATTER AND THEN WITHIN THE WORDING OF PUBLIC LAW 87-843 WHICH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, REQUESTED ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, INFORMATION ABOUT MET PROGRAMS AND EXPENDITURES

IN RESPONSE TO THESE CONCERNS THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, NOW OMB, ISSUED CIRCULAR A-62 WHICH AUTHORIZED DOC TO ...

SUBSEQUENTLY, IN 1964, DOC ISSUED THEIR IMPLEMENTATIOIN PLAN AND THE REST IS HISTORY.

OF COURSE THAT DOESN’T MEAN WHAT YOU SEE TODAY IS EXACTLY HOW WE’VE LOOKED SINCE 64.  OFCM HAS WEATHERED (NO PUN INTENDED) SEVERAL REORGANIZATIONS AND IN THE 70’s METEOREOLGICAL ACTIVITES ONCE AGAIN CAME UNDER SCRUTINY AND A GAO REPORT STATED...

THE GAO STUDY LED TO THE REVITALIZATION OF THE OFCM AND IN 1980 OFCM  WAS REORGANIZED AS AN INDEPENDENT FUNCTION WITH A FULL-TIME STAFF
NO LONGER EMBEDDED WITHIN NOAA

## Mission

**High-level focus on:**
**  ****Needs and Requirements**
**  ****Issues and Problems **
**  ****Studies, Reports, Plans, and Handbooks**
**  ****Crosscut Reviews, Assessments, and Analyses**

**Notes:**
THE CURRENT OFCM MISSION IS SHOWN HERE. 

PARTICIPATING AGENCIES (SPECIFICALLY THE AIR FORCE, NAVY, AND FAA) ASSIGNED SENIOR-LEVEL REPRESENTATIVES TO HELP FACILITATE INTERAGENCY COORDINATION.

## Aviation Weather 
Climate Analysis, Monitoring and Services
Cooperative Research
Environmental Services
Environmental Support  to Homeland Security

- Climate Analysis, Monitoring and Services
- Cooperative Research
- Environmental Services
- Environmental Support  to Homeland Security

- Information Technology and Communications
- Modeling and Prediction
- Observing Capabilities
- Space Weather
- Weather Information for Surface Transportation

*Key Focus Areas               Agency Priorities*

**Notes:**
THESE ARE OFCM’S 10 KEY FOCUS AREAS

-  DETERMINED THROUGH COORDINATION WITH ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES INVOLVED IN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH
-  COVERING A VERY WIDE SET OF AGENCY METEOROLOGICAL PRIORITIES  

## Roles/Responsibilities

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

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

**National Space Weather Program Council**

**National Aviation Weather Program Council**

**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**

**Federal Coordinator for Meteorology**

**FCMSSR:  SET POLICIES                                                         AND PRIORITIES**

**ICMSSR:  **
**- Implements policy decisions**
**- Makes policy recommendations to FCMSSR**
** ****Assess adequacy of federal programs and guides   **
**  ****implementation of new interagency programs**

**Notes:**
THE FCMSSR ARE SENIOR POLICY-LEVEL LEADERS  WHO MAKE KEY PROGRAMMATIC DECISIONS
THE CHAIRMAN IS THE UNDER SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERE

THE ICMSSR ARE SENIOR MANAGERS APPOINTED BY THEIR AGENCIES TO PROVIDE OVERSIGHT AND GUIDANCE FOR THE STANDING COMMITTEES.  THEY RECOMMEND POLICY ACTIONS TO FCMSSR

STANDING COMMITTEES GET THE INTERAGENCY GROUND WORK DONE... EITHER DO IT THEMSELVES OR CHARTER SMALLER WORKING GROUPS TO CARRY OUT VERY DETAILED WORK TO MOVE PROJECTS FORWARD

PROGRAM COUNCILS CAN FORM COMMITTEES AND WORKING GROUPS OR JOINT ACTION GROUPS TO TARGET SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT CAN BE CARRIED OUT IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.

PRIVATE SECTOR AND ACADEMIC INTERACTION ALSO HAPPENS WITHIN THIS COMMITTEE STRUCTURE THROUGH FORUMS, WORKSHOPS, ETC.
Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (FCMSSR)
Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (ICMSSR)

## OFCM Partners

**Notes:**
OFCM PARTNERS THROUGH “INTERAGENCY COORDINATION” WITH ALL THE OFFICES AND AGENCIES SHOWN HERE

## OFCM Affiliations

**US Climate Change Science Program (USCCSP)**

**National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)**

**Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources (CENR)**

**Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR)**

**National Research Council (NRC)**

**Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC)**

**Climate Research Committee (CRC)**

**National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)**

**University Corp. for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)**

**American Meteorological Society (AMS)**

**American Geophysical Union (AGU)**

**Notes:**
IN ADDITION TO THE PARTNERS ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, OFCM’S WORK WITH THESE GOVERNMENT, PRIVATE, AND SEMI-PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT IN SUPPORTING FEDERAL AGENCIES’ METEOROLOGICAL ACTIVITIES