Review of the Draft Plan for the Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration (1999)

Chapter: Acronyms

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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 1999. Review of the Draft Plan for the Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6464.

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Acronyms

AWIPS

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

MARD

Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration

NCEP

national center for environmental prediction

NEXRAD

next generation radar (common name for the WSR 88-D radar [weather service radar, 1988 Doppler model])

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NWS

National Weather Service

NWSMC

National Weather Service Modernization Committee (of the National Research Council)

OT&E

operational test and evaluation

RFC

river forecast center

WFO

weather forecast office

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The public law that authorized the National Weather Service (NWS) to modernize its technical systems and restructure its field office organization set the requirements for what has become known as the modernization and associated restructuring demonstration (MARD). The law requires testing of the integrated performance, over a sustained period, of the modernized components and an operational demonstration that no degradation in service will result from the modernization and associated restructuring. In this report, the National Research Council's National Weather Service Modernization Committee reviews the September 1998 draft plan for MARD. The committee drew three conclusions from its review of the plan and offers five recommendations to the NWS.

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