We bring 15 agencies together to facilitate a well-coordinated Federal Weather Enterprise serving the needs of the nation. Our mission inside the OFCM is to foster and encourage systematic coordination. OFCM started as a budget aggregator, and evolved into an agent to promote interagency effectiveness. There was a law in 1962 that assigned to the Bureau of the Budget the responsibility to report on the expenditures of the six agencies involved in meteorological services and research. Public Law 87-843, Section 304 (1962) Bureau of the Budget shall provide the Congress in connection with the budget presentation “The for fiscal year 1964 and each succeeding year thereafter, a horizontal budget showing (a) the totality of the programs for meteorology, (b) specific aspects of the program and funding assigned to each agency, and (c) the estimated goals and financial requirements.” In the 50 since OFCM was founded its mission has expanded. We were mentioned this April when the Weather Act was signed into Law. In this legislation we are directed to work with Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to continue the coordination of different weather agencies in the Federal Government to advance weather research and services. Public Law 115-25, Section 402 (2017) Director of the OSTP shall establish an Interagency Committee for Advancing Weather “The Services to improve coordination of relevant weather research and forecast innovation activities across the Federal Government…The Federal Coordinator for Meteorology shall serve as chair of this panel.” 6.3 OFCM is administered within NOAA We are an office within NOAA. We are not part of the NOAA line offices: the National Weather Service or the National Ocean Service. We are off to the side of the NOAA headquarters organization (Figure 18). We work with the chief of staff and some of the assistants trying to get most of the line offices in NOAA and other federal agencies to come together. Figure 18: NOAA headquarters organization chart. OFCM is indicated by the red oval. 6.4 We facilitate inter-agency efforts of the Federal Weather Enterprise (FWE) These are the agencies that are part of the federal weather enterprise that OFCM coordinates with. Agriculture Commerce (NOAA)
We bring 15 agencies together to facilitate a well-coordinated Federal Weather Enterprise serving the needs of the nation. Our mission inside the OFCM is to foster and encourage systematic coordination. OFCM started as a budget aggregator, and evolved into an agent to promote interagency effectiveness. There was a law in 1962 that assigned to the Bureau of the Budget the responsibility to report on the expenditures of the six agencies involved in meteorological services and research. Public Law 87-843, Section 304 (1962) “The Bureau of the Budget shall provide the Congress in connection with the budget presentation for fiscal year 1964 and each succeeding year thereafter, a horizontal budget showing (a) the totality of the programs for meteorology, (b) specific aspects of the program and funding assigned to each agency, and (c) the estimated goals and financial requirements.” In the 50 since OFCM was founded its mission has expanded. We were mentioned this April when the Weather Act was signed into Law. In this legislation we are directed to work with Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to continue the coordination of different weather agencies in the Federal Government to advance weather research and services. Public Law 115-25, Section 402 (2017) “The Director of the OSTP shall establish an Interagency Committee for Advancing Weather Services to improve coordination of relevant weather research and forecast innovation activities across the Federal Government…The Federal Coordinator for Meteorology shall serve as of this panel.” 6.3 OFCM is administered within NOAA We are an office within NOAA. We are not part of the NOAA line offices: the National Weather Service or the National Ocean Service. We are off to the side of the NOAA headquarters organization (Figure 18). We work with the chief of staff and some of the assistants trying to get most of the line offices in NOAA and other federal agencies to come together. Figure 18: NOAA headquarters organization chart. OFCM is indicated by the red oval. 6.4 We facilitate inter-agency efforts of the Federal Weather Enterprise (FWE) These are the agencies that are part of the federal weather enterprise that OFCM coordinates with. Agriculture Commerce (NOAA) chair
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