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Welcome NOAA Partners!
The National Weather Service (NWS) Partners and Family of Services Meetings were
held in Silver Spring, Maryland, on June 25, 2009. If you were unable to attend,
please take an opportunity to review the Presentations and Actions from
the Meeting.
Partners Presentations
Need to know about SCNs (Service Change Notices) or TINs (Technical Implementation Notices).
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Message from NWS Director Jack Hayes Wind Profiler Data Outage
As I discussed during the National Town Hall meeting on Sept. 25, effective
October 1, 2008, all NOAA wind profiler products have been temporarily
suspended for a period of approximately 3 to 5 weeks.
The suspension in availability of wind profiler data is necessary
to protect critical NWS IT systems from recently identified IT security
threats. The wind profiler network currently operates on obsolete
equipment that cannot support necessary IT security methods, and interconnection
to major NWS systems extends the vulnerability to the entire NWS IT
infrastructure.
In the short term, we are working with NOAA Research to migrate the
data to MADIS. This measure will provide hourly wind profiler data,
but will not include any 6-minute profiler data products. We are continuing
to work to make 6-minute data available and will update you on our
progress at a later date.
The long-term solution will ensure security of the network by replacing
the equipment. The replacement will start in the October 2009 time
frame.
While this was not an easy decision, I am confident that it is the
right decision and will allow us to ensure NWS IT security without
unduly compromising our ability to deliver our mission to our customers,
partners, and the Nation.
-Jack
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