NOAA ProTech Weather Domain

The primary user of the ProTech-Weather domain is the National Weather Service (NWS), whose mission is to provide weather, water, and climate data, forecasts and warnings for the protection of life and property and enhancement of the national economy. The mission and objectives of this domain are related to supporting existing, updating, and planning meteorological and communications in support of the NWS mission and strategic plan, which is to build a weather-ready nation. Toward achieving the vision of a weather ready nation, the agency has developed concepts and plans to address the need for NWS services to evolve. With today’s increasingly complex environmental, societal, technological, and economic challenges, NWS must become more agile, open and flexible to achieve its mission to meet society’s changing needs. Our information services must advance from transmitting information in discrete messages to helping core partners understand the spectrum of information we provide so they can make good decisions. This growing demand for impact-based decision support services (IDSS) and information usable by emerging and collaborative service sectors, requires an innovative service approach that facilitates flexibility and agility across a wide spectrum of users. It also requires NWS to leverage improvements in science and technology more effectively and efficiently.