[nws-changes] 20130524: comments-enhanced impact-based decision support svs Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20130524: comments-enhanced impact-based decision support svs Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
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• Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 09:46:19 -0600

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National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
653 AM EDT Fri May 24 2013

         -Family of Services
         -NOAA Weather Wire Service
         -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
         -NOAAPORT
         Other NWS Partners, Users, and Employees

         Acting Director, NWS Office of Climate, Water, and
           Weather Services

         Enhanced Impact-Based Decision Support Services
         For the Emergency Management Community

Description Document (SDD) describing proposed enhanced impact-
based decision support services (IDSS) for the emergency
management community supporting events/incidents impacting safety
of life and property.

The NWS Roadmap 2.0 is focused on building a Weather-Ready Nation
(WRN), which means building community resilience in the face of
increasing vulnerability to extreme weather-dependent impacts. To
this end, NWS is enhancing decision support services, improving
technology to track and forecast storms, and expanding its
dissemination efforts to achieve far-reaching national
preparedness. For information on the NWS Roadmap see:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/

To implement our WRN Roadmap, focused IDSS activities are
currently taking place at several offices taking part in NWS WRN
Pilot Projects.  In addition, through ongoing prototype
activities, many other offices across NWS are exploring new ways
of providing decision support services. This SDD describes how
NWS will incorporate best practices from these prototype
activities into our support for the emergency management
community across NWS.

NWS policy requires that NWS seek public comment/review before
implementing new or substantially modified product or services.
To date, we determined products/services to be new or
substantially modified based on product content or method of
delivery.  This framework does not fit well with the paradigm of
IDSS because such services may vary in content and method of
delivery depending on the nature of the particular customer or
event being addressed.

To address NWS enhancements to IDSS, we will be providing a
series of Service Description Documents describing who we plan to
provide our services to and what types of decisions we plan to
support.  The SDD addressed in this notice is for IDSS for the
emergency management community. This SDD, which supports
events/incidents impacting safety of life and property, may be
accessed at:

http://weather.gov/sp/idss_sdd_emc.pdf

Please provide comments on the proposed IDSS enhancements as
described in this document by August 23, 2013 to:

nws.idss.comments@xxxxxxxx

If you have comments or questions regarding this Public
Information Statement, please contact:

  Wendy Levine
  National Weather Service
  Silver Spring Maryland 20910
  301-713-3380 x 133
  wendy.levine@xxxxxxxx