# Presentation: 553186

## HazCollect SystemNOAANational Weather Service

- December 2004

## HazCollect Key Representatives

*Lawrence Lehmann, Program Manager** *
*Jon Adkins, Lead Engineer*
*Herb White, Operations Policy*

## HazCollect Project

- Develop a system that allows approved and authenticated external emergency managers at the Federal State and local levels to submit messages for broadcast over NOAA Weather Radio (NWR)* for the purpose of warning or informing the public.
- Develop a nationwide capability to streamline the current manual creation, authentication, and collection of all types of non-weather emergency messages in a quick and secure fashion for subsequent alert, warning and notification purposes.
** expanded to include NNWS and NWS Gateway driven dissemination systems *

## Current System Shortfalls for Transmitting Non-Weather Messages

- Not adapted to National warnings
- Manual Security and Authentication process
- Time consuming
- Error Prone
- Requires significant WFO staff intervention

## HazCollect Overview

- WFO
- AWIPS

**HazCollect Overview**

**HazCollect**

**DMIS**

**NWS**
**Telecom**
**Gateway****(TG)**

**NOAA**
**Weather Wire**
**Service**
**(NWWS)**

**Internet**

**WFO**
**AWIPS**

**AWIPS**

**NOAA**
**WEATHER RADIO**

**NWEM**
**(CEM)**
**Format**

**NWEM**
**(CEM)****Format**

**CAP**
**Format**

- Emergency
- Managers

**DMIS EM**
**Toolkit**

**Other EM**
**Systems**
- (DisasterHelp.gov,
- State EMAs, etc.)

**NWS**

**FEMA**

**NWS**
**WFOs**

- Backup Process (Voice Phone)

- Dialup

**EAS**

**EMWIN**

**other**

- Future

**All Hazards Emergency Messages**

- To Re-distributors & Public Consumers

- Emergency
- Managers

**Other EM**
**Interfaces**

## HazCollect Components

***DMIS Server***
- Receives EM Input
- Validates EM Credentials (authenticate and authorize)
- Generates CAP Message
- Sends CAP Message to HazCollect
***HazCollect Server***
- Receives CAP Message
- Builds WMO/NWEM Message(s)
- Transmits WMO/NWEM to NCF
- NCF Disseminates to AWIPS Node(s)
- Transmits WMO/NWEM to TG
- TG Disseminates to NWS Consumers
***AWIPS***
- Receives WMO/NWEM
- Transmits WMO/NWEM to NWWS Uplink
- Converts WMO/NWEM to NWR broadcast format
- Conversion Done with CAFÉ Formatter
- Transfers to CRS
- CRS sends to NWR for broadcast

## CAP to NWEM Transformation

**CAP to NWEM Transformation**

**<sent>**

**WMO Header**

**<geocode> or**
**<polygon>**

**<description>**

**<sender name>**

**<expir. date/time>**

**<event code>**

**<language>**

**<event type>**

**<operator ID>**

**<status>**

**Name ID**

**Message Content**

**Information Source**

**Issuance Time/Date**

**NWS issuing Office**

**Product Name**

**MND Broadcast Instr.**

**UGC Purge Time**

**UGC Geo Identifier**

**AWIPS ID**

**CAP**

**NWEM**

## Example Messages

**OASIS **
**CAP **
**Message**

**WMO**
**NWEM **
**Message**

## HazCollect Schedule

_**Phase I**__ _	**Limited Production System (LPS) **
- Demonstrate the HazCollect functionality to send (at least) one message completely through the system.
- _Demo Test_ – 2/05
_**Phase II **_	 **Initial Operational Capability (IOC) **
- Full capability to send any product or products to meet the functional requirements in the Functional Requirements Document.
- _Development Test & Evaluation (DT&E)_ – 6/05
_**Phase III**_	 **Final Operational Capability (FOC) **
-  Final software/hardware plus fixes identified in Phase I and  II. Formal testing all products created and disseminated.
- _DT&E_ – 7/05
- _Operational Acceptance Test_ – 8/05
_**Deployment**_**       National System Capability Deployed – Winter 05/06**_**  **_

## HazCollect Development Players

- Organizations/Contractors identified to develop the HazCollect system through the phases..
**Battelle:** Develop the HazCollect Central Server (HCS) to interface with the DMIS system and AWIPS infrastructure.  Responsible for verifying  DMIS meets the HazCollect security requirements of Authentication and Authorization.  Will provide O&M support.
**FSL: **Develop and modify AWIPS code to ensure automatic dissemination of NWEM through the AWIPS existing dissemination system.
**NGIT:  **Ensures the AWIPS infrastructure  i.e. Network Control Facility (NCF) system interfaces with the HCS.** **Develop any changes to the NCF to ensure full system integration of the HCS.  Integration testing and technical  support.
**NWS Gateway:** HazCollect Location and Operations Support
**NWS:** Program Management/System Engineering Center

## HazCollectBackup Slides

## Concepts of Operations

## HazCollect System Data Flow

- Auxiliary Data

- Messages

- HazCollect Components

- Dissemination
- Systems

## HazCollect Messages

*OASIS CAP Message*
- Common Alerting Protocol
- Emergency Management Message Format
- XML Based, Required and Optional Fields
*WMO/NWEM Message*
- Non-Weather Emergency Message
- Standard NWS Product Format
- WMO Format Header, AWIPS Product Header
*AFOS Message (NWR format)*
- Voice Ready CRS Format