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Appendix E NGDC Performance Measures and Milestones
PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND MILESTONES FROM THE FY 2002 NESDIS ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN
Performance Measure
Milestone
Environmental data archived
90% of scientifically significant data archived under NARA-recommended standards
Environmental data made readily accessible
55% of scientifically significant archived data made readily accessible
Archived environmental data sets that are systematically quality controlled using scientifically-based standards
20% of quantity archived data sets having quality control processes in place
Environmental assessments produced that respond to priority national policy or environmental monitoring needs
One assessment per year per data center
Customer services satisfaction level
A customer satisfaction index of at least 75% across all of our services as measured by our customer service survey
Increase number of signed/approved individual development plans for NESDIS by 20% per year
Establish IDPs for all interested current employees and for all new employees
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Performance Measure
Milestone
100% of NESDIS supervisors receive required training
Ensure new supervisors have taken, or are scheduled for, training
Yearly, all hands have face to face communications with NESDIS assistant administrator and deputy assistant administrator
Conduct annual “all hands” meeting with senior management at all NESDIS locations
Ensure a safe workplace
Implement the “safety first” program at NGDC
Produce a new state of the environment product
State of the space-weather normals available on the Web
Increase collaborative and participatory activities which support coastal issues
Complete coastal relief model for the U.S. west coast
Establish and provide mechanism for multi-agency collaborative projects in hazards support involving key stakeholders
Complete conterminous U.S. coastal relief model, integrating USGS topography with NOS hydrography for a base layer to hazard modeling such as flooding, storm surge, and tsunami
NOTE: IDP = individual development plan; NARA = National Archives and Records Administration; NESDIS = National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service; NGDC = National Geophysical Data Center; USGS = U.S. Geological Survey.
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PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND MILESTONES FROM THE NGDC FY 2002 ANNUAL MANAGEMENT CONTRACT
Performance Measure
Milestone
Increase user access to NOAA/non-NOAA data sources for coastal data
Assume role of primary long-term archive of full-resolution digital NOS hydrographic sounding data
Refine design of long term archive of NOS shallow water multibeam bathymetry, digital side scan sonar and associated acoustic backscatter data
Increase collaborative and participatory activities which support coastal issues
Collaborate with NMFS to provide NESDIS assistance on needed environmental information technologies, methods and data
Complete coastal relief model for the U.S. west coast
NESDIS will annually review and update 20% of existing metadata records per year
Report to NESDIS the number of metadata records updated
NESDIS will migrate 10% of its digital data to current accepted archive media every year in accordance with best business practices
Data centers will develop a tape migration plan and will report percentage of media migrated
The availability of on-line NESDIS data sets and products will increase by 10% each year
NESDIS will report annually its achievements and shortfalls in providing online access to high priority environmental data
Report status of customer demand as measured by requests for data and information
Report on data delivered online
Ingest, assess data quality and archive space weather data from global network of ionosondes, solar telescopes, magnetic variation observatories and cosmic ray observatories, ~3 MB per day
Develop, using COTS, a map server, to support mapping NVDS/NNDC data using the standards-based Open GIS Consortium viewers. This effort will be expanded to support other data
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Performance Measure
Milestone
Develop new products to describe the state of the environment
Develop new climate, ocean, and space environment baseline indices
Establish and provide mechanism for multi-agency collaborative projects in hazards support involving key stakeholders
Complete conterminous U.S. coastal relief model, integrating USGS topography with NOS hydrography for a base layer to hazard modeling such as flooding, storm surge, and tsunami
Increased utilization of retrospective data for multi-hazard risk management
Expand hazard brochure into a web-based product, complete with internal NESDIS links
Operationalize web search, subset, and custom CD-ROM capability
Capability implemented for GLOBE elevation, DMSP night-lights, marine survey data, and ecosystems data
New NGDC focus clearly defined in report to NGDC staff and NESDIS
Identify new program thrusts supporting NESDIS or NOAA missions
Identify current programs which have been discontinued or transferred
Reposition Paleoclimate Program into NGDC’s fiscal structure
Identify funding level and support for paleoclimatology
Participate in current or NESDIS data rescue programs as appropriate
new NOAA or Ingest and archive of 250 GB of DMSP film scan data from NESDIS’ CDMP
Produce a new state of the environment product
State of the space-weather normals available on the Web
Develop a sea ice index prototype
Consolidate existing global relief models into one for use as framework data set
Global digital elevation model in GIS compatible format available on appropriate media
Provide NGDC staff to support the NOAA efforts in alternate dispute resolution
Requested mediations performed
Percent of operational satellite products assimilated into user systems
Identify JCSDA tasks needed to optimize satellite data usage in space weather models and applications
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Performance Measure
Milestone
Ingest and archive all space environment monitoring data from NOAA POES and GOES satellites (~30 MB/day)
Ingest and archive all raw data records and designated products from the DMSP satellites (~20 GB/day)
From the SXI sensor operating at full capacity: archive 8640 images/day totaling 2.3 GB per day
100% of NESDIS office/center identifying 0.25 FTE and associated resources committed to outreach
Identify office/center contact person for outreach activity
Establish office/center space for storage of outreach materials
Increase website accesses NESDIS-wide by 10% per year
Identify main office/center and program web pages
Develop corporate (NESDIS identifier) web look and incorporate NESDIS web look on main office/center pages
100% of office and center director’s use the annual resource plan form to document their program requirements throughout the program and budget development cycle
Prepare the initial FY 2002 annual resource plans for each office and center director for signature approval by the AA and the office and center directors
Prepare the FY 2003 annual resource plans for each office and center director for the FY 2003 President’s budget
Prepare the FY 2004 annual resource plans for each office and center director for the FY 2004 DOC budget submission
Allow on-line access to satellite reference data sets and spectral demo sets to 100 users at any given time and improve this capacity by 25% each year
Develop a plan to establish on-line access to reference datasets that describe the near-Earth space environment
Increase number of signed/approved IDP’s for NESDIS employees by 20% per year
Establish IDP for all interested current employees, and for all new employees
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Performance Measure
Milestone
100% of NESDIS supervisors receive required training
All supervisors will have supervisory training within one year of appointment
Implement alternate work schedule program
Implement alternate work schedule program
Support NOAA’s second survey feedback action program
Achieve at least 80% employee participation in survey feedback action program
Complete at least 50% of the action plans
Yearly, all-hands have face-to-face communications with AA and DAA. More frequent meetings with office directors, division chiefs
Conduct annual “all hands” meeting with senior management
Create and sustain an effective internal organizational communications process
Define a safety plan for NGDC
Implement the “safety first” program at NGDC
NOTE: AA = NESDIS assistant administrator; CDMP = Climate Database Modernization Program; COTS = commercial off-the-shelf; DAA = NESDIS deputy assistant administrator; DMSP = Defense Meteorological Satellite Program; DOC = Department of Commerce; FTE = full-time equivalent; GIS = geographic information system; GLOBE = Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Program; GOES = Geostationary Satellites; IDP = individual development plan; JCSDA = Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; NESDIS = National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service; NGDC = National Geophysical Data Center; NMFS = National Marine Fisheries Service; NNDC = NOAA national data centers; NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOS = National Ocean Service; NVDS = National Virtual Data System; POES = Polar Orbiting Satellites; SXI = Solar X-ray Imager; USGS = U.S. Geological Survey.
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