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091303 1 (1976-08-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 0 7 I 5 WASHiNGTON, D.C. 20540 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION August 4, 1976 Dr. Robert 14. 'White Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 0/I1 Department of Commerce 1o5Uo Dear Dr. White: We recently completed a survey of the activities of the Ngtional , Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Weather / Service (NWS) to obtain general working information on important aspects of that agency. During this phase of our work we focused on NWS's basic mission responsibilities of weather forecast and warning services. Accordingly, we looked at NWS's current development of the Automation of Field Operations and Services (AFOS) program. We examined AFOS's program objectives based on current and projected requirements, AFOS Automatic Data Processing (ADP) equip- ment procurement, AFOS system hardware and communications components, AFOS experimental site testing and evaluation, AFOS projected manpower requirements, and the overall AFOS implementation plan, Visits were made to Weather Service Forecast Offices (WSF0s), River Forecast Centers, Weather Service Offices (WSOs) and the AFOS experimental site to gain a thorough insight of the present old system and the planned AFOS system. We noted that AFOS represents dramatic and imaginative progress in support of the NWS's sophisticated meteorological and hydrological programs, however, we identified certain weaknesses in NOAA's management of its ADP program, NEED TO IMPROVE MANAGEMENT OF ADP AND COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT We specifically determined there are several managerial and functional areas that appear questionable in respect to achieving necessary systems efficiency and economy. These include WSO planned equipment capacity, AFOS communications -requirements, NWS prolifera- tion of ADP equipment, and NWS plans for future integration of automated observation and data acquisition subsystems with AFOS. nu uu L n I =. p

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