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Statement of Task
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uring the 1980s and 1990s, NOAA learned to support future improvements to NWS
launched a major program to modernize the capabilities. It should address high-impact weather
National Weather Service (NWS), invest- and new science and technologies that allow for even
ing $4.5 billion to modernize NWS technologies to better forecasts; the integration of new technologies
advance weather forecasting. No complete assess- and better models into NWS operations; workforce
ment of the entire end-to-end NWS modernization composition and structure; and improving current
enterprise has been done, thus Congress has asked the partnerships with private industry, academia, and other
National Academy of Sciences to conduct an assess- governmental agencies. Finally, the project should pro-
ment of the now-completed National Weather Service vide advice on how NWS can best plan, deploy, and
modernization. The project should not only address oversee these future improvements based on lessons
the past modernization, but also focus on lessons learned from the NWS modernization.
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