1. RFC Backup Team  Team disbanded with 2003 workshop.  Re-established after Katrina 2005 use of backups by LMRFC and discovery of poor performance of previous system.  Funding from Hurricane monies and the grace of SR  Same team members as before; Lawrence, Jones, Bradberry, Sneeringer  Team has largely been inactive lately.  Not exactly sure of update/test cycle frequency amongst RFCs, ABRFC updates/tests every 3 months (for scan).  Overall indication is that new machines are a significant upgrade and can handle quite a load.

2. RFC Archive DB team  Team largely superseded by development and fielding of AX machines to RFCs.  To my knowledge, all former SR archive db data has been moved over to AX using scripts/help from James Paul.  No known activity from team the past 2 years, suggest we abandon this team.

3. Develop/test load sharing balance test  No activity has yet occurred on this proposal.  Most ABRFC activity in winter of 2006/2007 was spent on other goals developed from 2006 workshop.  Not 100% sure that we want to continue down this path since the “CONOPS” plan was abandoned?? Do we??

4. Investigate enhanced functionalities for RFC precipitation analysis maps  Main activity for this proposal was the setting up of the rsync server at ABRFC during winter of 2006/2007  WGRFC had this machine, but was old, near failure, and they wanted out of the business of supporting it, plus ABRFC needed this to implement next step of goal  Next step is to retrieve hourly and six hourly files from SR RFCs to rsync server, then run code to mosaic them.  2.5 months of flooding in ABRFC stopped this process.  Big question is web page presentation.

5. Investigate enhanced functionalities for RFC precipitation analysis maps  Ken Pavelle mentioned several options:  Wait for and/or lobby AHPS to implement on new AHPS supported page.  Provide funding to AHPS for Orion to implement.  Modify Ken’s code, make changes and implement on a non AHPS webpage, but where??  Obtain and modify Orion’s code, and hope that they will implement the changes on the new official AHPS server.  We may be at the mercy of AHPS bureaucracy now!!!!