FY 2008 Budget Request
NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, also known as "NOAA Satellite and Information Service" (NESDIS) requests a total of $978.308 million (M) in the FY 2008 President's Budget Request.
This FY 2008 budget request will allow the continuation of NOAA's satellite and information services, satellite and data acquisitions, and supporting infrastructure. These activities support NOAA's mission to monitor the Earth, manage resources, support the Nation's economy, and protect lives and property.
Snapshot:
Operations, Research, and Facilities (ORF):
$ 105.152 M for Environmental Satellite Observing Services
$ 52.650 M for NOAA's Data Centers & Information Services
Total ORF of $ 157.802 M
Procurement, Acquisitions and Construction (PAC):
$ 805.585 M for Satellite Acquisitions - Satellite Development and Ground Systems
$ 12.693 M for Data System Enhancements, Data Exploitation & Information Systems Backup.
$ 2.228 M for Facilities and Critical Infrastructure Improvements.
Total PAC of $ 820.506 M
FY 2008 Program Highlights
Environmental Satellite Observing Services
$ 44.499 M for satellite command
and control of NOAA's GOES and POES, and operations and maintenance of the NOAA Satellite Operations
Facility (NSOF)
$ 30.408 M for processing and
distributing operational satellite data products and services that are critical for saving lives and property from severe weather and natural disasters, locating navigation hazards due to sea ice, as well as supporting search and rescue of mariners and aviators in distress.
$ 27.871 M for product development from current and future NOAA satellite systems, including continued development of satellite-derived oceanography programs such as Coral Reef Watch, and the CoastWatch Program
$ 1.262 M to regulate commercial
remote sensing systems
$ 0.612 M for Office of Space Commercialization
$ 0.500 M for Group on Earth Observations
NOAA's Data Centers & Information Services
$ 52.650 M for data access and archives, database modernization, and retrospective analyses of climatic, geophysical, oceanographic, and Coastal Data Development data in NOAA's National Data Centers holdings and the NOAA Library system
Systems Acquisitions - Satellite Development and Ground Systems
$ 446.206 M for NOAA polar-orbiting satellites:
$ 114.906 M to finish the rebuilding, storage, and launch in February 2009 of NOAA-N Prime; and to support NOAA’s contribution to the MetOp mission-specifically for installation, testing, and maintenance of NOAA instruments on MetOp-B and
MetOp-C
$ 331.300 M for NOAA's portion of implementing the 2006 NPOESS acquisition strategy agreed to by NOAA, the U.S. Air Force, and NASA; continuing development of the NPOESS program; supporting an NPP launch in calendar year 2010 and the first NPOESS satellite launch in calendar year 2013
$ 359.379 M for NOAA geostationary satellites:
$ 80.379 M for GOES-N series to finalize development of GOES-O and GOES-P
$ 279.000 M for GOES-R series to continue instrument development, compete and award system acquisition contracts, and support NOAA and NASA government program office activities. GOES-R is funded by NOAA and has shared program responsibilities split between NOAA and NASA.
Data Systems Enhancements, Data Exploitation
and
Information Systems Backup
$ 7.466 M for CLASS and EOS Archive enhancements at NOAA's National Data Centers.
$ 2.455 M for NPOESS data exploitation is required to implement NOAA interface for the NPP and the NPOESS satellites
Facilities and Critical Infrastructure Improvement
$ 2.228 M to maintain command and data acquisition facilities in Fairbanks, AK, and Wallops, VA
NOAA FY 2008 Blue Book
For more information contact:
Christopher Cartwright
301-713-9228
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