NOAA's Satellite and Information Service NESDIS - FY2007 Budget Request

NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, also known as "NOAA Satellite and Information Service" (NESDIS) requests a total of $1,033,884 million (M) in the FY2007 President's Budget Request. This is an 81.664 M increase over the FY2006 enacted appropriation. The FY2007 request will allow NESDIS to continue providing operational products and services while developing critical space- and ground-based observational systems that will serve the Nation's needs now and in the decades to come.

Highlights include:
Operations, Research and Facilities (ORF):
- $97.671M for Environmental Satellite Observing Systems
- $51.909M for NOAA's Data Centers & Information Services
Total ORF of $149.580M

Procurement, Acquisitions and Construction (PAC):
- $867.383M for Satellite Acquisitions
- $14.693M for Data Archive System Enhancements & Information Systems Backup
- $2.228M for Facilities and Critical Infrastructure Improvements
Total PAC of $884.304M

Environmental Satellite Observing Services

- $43.789M for satellite command and control of NOAA's GOES and POES, and operations and maintenance of NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF).

- $27.270M for processing and distributing operational satellite data products and services that are critical for saving lives and property from severe weather and natural disasters, navigation hazards due to sea ice, as well as search and rescue of mariners and aviators in distress.

- $24.771M for product development from current and future NOAA satellite systems, including satellite derived Coral Reef Monitoring

- $1.240M to regulate commercial remote sensing systems.

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NOAA's Data Centers & Information Services

- $51.909M for data access and archive, database modernization, and retrospective analyses of atmospheric, geophysical, and oceanographic data in NOAA's National Data Centers holdings and NOAA Library system.

Systems Acquisitions - Satellite Development and Ground Systems

- $427.776M for NOAA polar-orbiting satellites:
    - $89.906M for NOAA K-N' series. This will support a launch of a rebuilt NOAA N'
    - $337.870M for NOAA's portion of the NPOESS program for instruments, risk reduction activities and system development.
    - $439.607M for NOAA geostationary satellites:
    - $107.159M for GOES-N series.
    - $332.448M for GOES-R series instruments and award of system acquisition and operations contract.

Data Archive and Other Critical Systems Enhancements

- $7.466M for CLASS and EOS Archive enhancements at NOAA National Data Centers.
- $4.455M for NPOESS data exploitation.
- $2.772M to establish an off-site back-up for operational product processing systems.

Construction & Infrastructure

- $2.228M to maintain command and data acquisition facilities in Fairbanks, AK, and Wallops, VA.

For More information contact:

301-713-9228

NOAA Satellite & Information Service
FY 2007 Constituents Budget Brief will be held on March 2, 2006 at the National Press Club