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NAWIPS – AWIPS II Transition Update “Where America’s Climate, Weather, Ocean, and Space Prediction Services Begin” Project Overview NCEP has ceased all development of its NAWIPS software system Bug and emergency fixes being the exception Full NAWIPS system to be ported to AWIPS-II Software ready for Operational Testing and Evaluation by Q1FY11 No changes to forecaster workflow Some visual differences may be unavoidable Capitalize on new technology Project Overview AWIPS-II represents a merging of two software systems - NAWIPS and AWIPS Will allow for better collaboration between NCEP and NWS forecasters Economic benefits as well. The combined system will contain components from AWIPS and NAWIPS NMAP, NCEP Product Generation, GEMPAK, Data decoders/encoders, D2D, GFE, Hydro Apps, etc. Project Overview N-AWIPS migration will leverage Raytheon baseline functionality wherever possible Some functionality implemented directly Animation, image manipulation Some functionality enhanced NCEP decoders, Grid diagnostics NCEP views this as a software and hardware consolidation No NCEP functionality is going away! No forecaster workflow changes Current Status Transition efforts are on schedule First Major Release to NCEP Centers and Unidata was April 1, 2009 Additional releases have been made every 4-8 weeks Scheduled to continue up to October 2010 release Weekly Telcons with National Centers and Unidata All NAWIPS applications to be ported by October 1, 2010 Operational Test Evaluation to begin at that time National Centers and Unidata involvement Current Status National Centers (NC) perspective Continue to work on data management / select Continue to add data resources as new decoders become available Continue to refine existing resources Working on timeline, time matching, multi-loop, multi-panel display options Current Status Product Generation (PGEN) All basic compound drawable elements (DEs) Multi-product, multi-layer Now focused on products: Graph-to-text: TCA, Watches,