1. Chief – Science Plans Branch NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology
AWIPS Technology Infusion Unidata Policy Committee Meeting May 12, 2009
Jason Tuell
Chief – Science Plans Branch
NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology

2. Agenda Office of Science and Technology Overview
AWIPS Technology Infusion Program Overview
Scope
Roadmap
Status
AWIPS Research to Operations
Objective
Strategies
Data Rights Status
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3. Office of Science and Technology Overview
OST Mission - Drive Science and Technology Advances into NWS Operations
OST Major Activities
Planning, management, development and execution of major NWS program including AWIPS, ASOS, NextRad and NWR, MOS, NDFD and future systems such as NextGen WIDB
Lead the development of the NWS Science and Technology Roadmap
Coordinate plans and supports the execution and implementation of science activities needed to improve NWS products and services
OST Organizations
Programs and Plans Division - Manages execution of program management and development programs. Access science and technology options
Systems Engineering Center - Leads systems engineering, development, integration, and testing of observing, information processing, display, and communications systems.
Meteorological Development Laboratory - Develop and implement scientific techniques into National Weather Service Operations.
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4. AWIPS Technology Infusion Scope
AWIPS Technology Infusion (FY2005 – FY2014)
A long-term project which delivers a modern, robust software infrastructure that provides the foundation for future system level enhancements for the entire NWS enterprise
Phase 1: (FY2007-FY2010)
Migration of WFO/RFC AWIPS 1 to a modern Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure
Phase II: (FY2009-FY2011) – AWIPS SOA Extension
Creation of a seamless weather enterprise spanning NWS operations
Migration of NAWIPS into the AWIPS SOA
Delivery of thin client to support Incident Meteorologists, e.g., Fire Weather,
Integration of “orphan” systems (e.g., Weather Event Simulator to support training requirements)
Integration of Community Hydrologic Prediction System (CHPS ) into AWIPS SOA
Phase III: (FY2009 – FY2014) – Enterprise Level Enhancements
Data delivery enhancements: “Smart push-smart pull” data access
Visual collaboration enhancements
Information generation enhancements
Visualization enhancements
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5. AWIPS Technology Infusion Roadmap
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Baseline (AWIPS I) Application Migration
Phase I
AWIPS 1 Migration
OTE / Deployment
NAWIPS Migration
Phase II
AWIPS SOA Extension
Thin Client
WES Integration
CHPS
Phase III Enterprise
Enhancements
IOC
FOC
Data Delivery- Smart Push/Pull
NWS Integrated Collaboration
Phase 2
Phase 3
= Calendar Year
= Fiscal Year
IOC
FOC
Streamlined Generation of Products
Advanced Visualization
IOC
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6. AWIPS Technology Infusion Status
AWIPS I application migration underway
Eight incremental deliveries of infrastructure and functionality provided thus far for NWS testing and evaluation
Final incremental delivery of functionality (TO11) targeted for Fall 2009
OTE begins – Winter 2009
Deployment
AWIPS SOA Extension projects that will enhance NWS operations are underway
NAWIPS migration in progress
First incremental delivery of functionality provided to users for testing/evaluation, April, 2009
Next incremental delivery targeted for Fall 2009
Thin Client, Data Delivery, CHPS, WES integration and Collaboration Projects
Requirements definition, AWIPS SOA evaluation and prototyping > 2010
IOC targeted for FY11
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7. AWIPS Research to Operations
Objective - Enable faster and more effective infusion of new science from research to operations into AWIPS
Strategies
Make AWIPS freely available to collaborators including research and academic communities
Government officially informed Raytheon that Government owns AWIPS data rights, April 2009
Raytheon copyright markings on source code have been removed on TO11, Slice 1, April 2009
AWIPS distribution subject to open source licensing agreements
Establish open-source-closed community partnership
Build open source project governance structure
Provide AWIPS (Including NAWIPS components as open source), sans comms. and product issuance software
Build partnership with Unidata and research community
Leverage open source projects to provide robust development environment, tools, and support functions
Utilize AWIPS plug in architecture to facilitate introduction of new algorithms and data types by collaborators
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