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An Assessment of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System Operational Test and Evaluation of the First System Build (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1 INTRODUCTION
Pages 6-8

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... The conclusions and recommendations of the committee are presented to NWS only through written reports that have undergone a rigorous external peer review supervised by the National Research Council. This is the committee's second report focusing entirely on AWIPS, although recommendations urging attention to delays in this vital component of the 6
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... During these visits, the committee members observed the OT&E firsthand, watched NWS field staff as they worked with the new system, and discussed users' reactions to AWIPS Build 1 and the OT&E process. In September 1996, the NWSM Committee issued a preliminary assessment of the Build 1 OT&E and an evaluation of the AWIPS incremental deployment approach that could be used as input to a key deployment decision for the AWIPS program by the secretary of commerce (NRC, 1996b)
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... . AWIPS panel members and committee staff met with NWS and NOAA staff and the contractor on four additional occasions and were present at the formal design review for AWIPS Build 3.
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Key Terms

  • awips panel
  • national weather
  • weather service
  • awips build
  • noaa staff

  • operational test
  • deployed build
  • interactive processing
  • advanced weather
  • weather interactive

  • awips development
  • scientific assessments
  • improved workstation
  • panel continued
  • rigorous external

  • nws adopted
  • newly deployed
  • increasingly complex
  • preliminary assessment
  • initially weekly

  • integrating information
  • evolutionary approach
  • review supervised
  • awips incremental
  • software upgrades

  • formal design
  • nws staff
  • deployment approach
  • review requested
  • deployment decision


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