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2 Review of the MARD Plan
Pages 7-11

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... ~4) for "a multistation operational demonstration which tests the performance of the modernization in an integrated manner for a sustained period." MARD GOALS AND OBJECTIVES The committee believes that the planned MARD will address all three MARD goals to a limited extent prior to AWIPS commissioning and more fully afterward.
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From page 8...
... Surveys The surveys appear to be adaptations of the surveys used in the AWIPS OT&E service evaluation. The adapted surveys focus on staff assessments of internal office operations; customer assessments of NWS and RFC products; and managerial assessments of the support from national and regional NWS offices and, when backup services are required, from other field offices.
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... assessments of staffing configurations (including shift structures, staffing combinations, and variations in the discretion allowed local staff in modifying procedures) under different types of weather conditions · examinations of methods of network coordination under different conditions (including routine interactions among the WFOs, RFCs, and NCEPs and interactions during severe weather or periods of system stress)
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... Individual offices have also worked out "internal" procedures for using various legacy or experimental components as backups and workarounds to improve their intra-office backup capability. According to the latest draft statement of AWIPS Build 4.2 capabilities, this version should provide a great deal of the planned technical capability for enhanced interoffice backup (Box 2-1~.
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... the equipment and other resources necessary for taking each step; and (4) the preparations that should be made in advance, such as acquiring the telephone numbers of local data acquisition and dissemination users and determining alternative communication pathways.
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