According to Michelle Mainelli, NCEP Central Operations (NCO) Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli, Raytheon Technical Services has integrated the NCEP National Center Perspective into the AWIPS II Baseline release. Version OB11.5 of the software was officially released in May 2011.
"The OB11.5 version has been delivered and installed on NCEP's AWIPS II Test Bed for testing, and we expect to receive another update, OB11.6, by mid-June," says Mainelli. "NCO has dedicated significant time in testing and evaluating an automated flow of non-Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) data into AWIPS II. Unfortunately, the current solution does not meet the timeliness requirements for gridded model data. NCO and the NWS/Office of Science and Technology have agreed to pursue a more direct connect approach to accessing data on the AWIPS II systems. We hope the new approach will help alleviate the data delivery timeliness issues we are currently experiencing."
NCO has released the second in a series of NCEP-specific training modules for AWIPS II. Training Module 2 concentrates on the system topology.
Finally, Mainelli adds, NCO provided a status briefing to the Unidata Policy Committee on Monday, May 23. While the National Weather Service has experienced some setbacks in the overall schedule of the AWIPS II migration, we do not see a delay at this time in the release of AWIPS II to the Unidata community members in Winter of 2011/2012.| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| NCEP Field testing | Summer 2011 |
| NCEP Deployment of AWIPS II systems to National Centers | Fall 2011 |
| Release of AWIPS II package to Unidata community members | Winter 2011/2012 |
| Unidata will provide active support and maintenance of GEMPAK for 18 months after the release of AWIPS II to the Unidata community. After the 18-month active support period ends, Unidata will continue to make the GEMPAK source code, help and training materials, and the GEMBUD mailing list available. | |
