# Presentation: 454434

## Digital Operations Concept

- IFPS Workshop
- April 13-15,2004

## Why a Digital Services Operations Concept?

## Focus agency on the vision and goals of transition to digital services
Describe significant corporate changes
How we provide information
What parts of the agency are best positioned to provide what portions of digital information database
Infrastructure and organizational changes

- Describe significant corporate changes
- How we provide information
- What parts of the agency are best positioned to provide what portions of digital information database
- Infrastructure and organizational changes

## NWS Digital Services VisionTo meet customer and partner needs for high quality, accessible, and reliable digital weather, water, and climate services through optimized forecast operations.

## Why Digital Services?

- IT has provided new information exchange pathways
- Web
- Digital data exchange
- Graphical
- Partners and customers are becoming more sophisticated
- Demand for faster access to information and updates
- NRC Recommendation to provide data and products in digital form

## Benefits

- More timely and consistent weather information
- Information delivered in a variety of formats to meet diverse needs
- Higher temporal and spatial resolution
- Focus on science
- Easier access to,  and use of, information

## Operational Scenario

- 	Local offices and national centers will merge the forecast and observational expertise found within each unit by working together to construct a national digital database of weather information.
- 	Emphasis will be placed on hazardous and high impact events.

## Local Database

- Local products and services will be derived from the local digital database
- Ability for rapid updates based upon the situation
- Very high temporal and spatial detail which is used to populate the NDFD
- Demand for interpretive and/or supplemental information

## National Database

- National products and services will be derived from the national database
- Database currency maintained through coordinated local updates
- Standard formats of girds and derived products
- Standard time and/or space conventions
- NDFD will have multiple points of entry with backup capabilities
- Quality Assurance checks to ensure completeness, consistency and reliability
- Rigorous verification and feedback

## Achieving Success

- Improving Partnerships
- Building coalitions
- Exploiting communications technology
- Increasing data resolution
- Maximizing value of data
- Improved Services
- Database centric operations
- Automated generation of products
- Infusion of new science
- Performance assessment
- Heightened collaboration

## Success Continued

- Organizational Excellence
- Agency commitment to continually reassess priorities and redirect resources
- Building trust through frequent dialogue with all stakeholders
- Building constituencies through interaction with partners and customers
- Emphasis on Training
- Decentralized control with local and regional oversight maximizing efficiency, consistency and compliance with national standards

## Summary

- Digital Services will support the growing demand for reliable, updated, high resolution weather information
- Maximize use of technology and science
- Redistribution of forecaster workload with a focus on significant weather events
- NWS operations oriented around digital services
- Increased access to information will assist decision makers, protect the environment, support the economy and minimize impacts of hazardous weather.