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After the National Weather Service (NWS) completed a major Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR) in 2000, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to assess the execution of the MAR and compare its promised benefits to its actual impact. The resulting report, The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring: A Retrospective Assessment, concluded that it was a success. The key challenges now faced by the NWS are (1) keeping pace with accelerating scientific and technological advances, (2) meeting expanding and evolving user needs in an information-centric...
After the National Weather Service (NWS) completed a major Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR) in 2000, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to assess the execution of the MAR and compare its promised benefits to its actual impact. The resulting report, The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring: A Retrospective Assessment, concluded that it was a success. The key challenges now faced by the NWS are (1) keeping pace with accelerating scientific and technological advances, (2) meeting expanding and evolving user needs in an information-centric society, and (3) partnering with an enterprise that has grown considerably since 2000. This report presents recommendations for the NWS to address these challenges, with a more agile organizational structure and workforce, putting it on a path to become second to none at integrating advances in science and technology in its operations and meeting user needs, leading in some areas and keeping pace in others.