Dave Zittel, meteorologist with the Radar Operations Center in Norman, Okla., has been named the August Employee of the Month by the NOAA National Weather Service. This national award recognizes Zittel’s outstanding technical contribution on development of a new weather radar technique that has greatly enhanced NEXRAD weather radar.
The Oklahoma Federal Executive Board recently recognized 11 employees of the Norman-based Radar Operations Center (ROC) during the annual public service recognition banquet.
The FEB awards are part of Public Service Recognition Week, and honor the Oklahoma Federal Employees of the Year, publicizing to the general public, as well as to the federal family, the high caliber of devoted employees in the federal service.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded the team behind a collaborative project to make high-resolution weather radar data available in real-time to the public its prestigious 2004 Technology Transfer Award. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The award recognized the team for “development of a national real-time radar data archival and Internet2 delivery system for university, government and private sectors.” Taking advantage of high performance networking capabilities and other recent technological advances, the team successfully transferred the technology from research into NOAA’s National Weather Service, private sector operations and research and education facilities.
High-resolution radar data from the national network of Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) is now available in real time to government, university and private sector users, the Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today.
This data represents the highest resolution picture of what the radar system is “seeing” in real time—as the antenna spins. As a result, faster, higher resolution and more detailed weather products will be developed. Researchers have already proven the value of this data in various applications. Now it will be available to everyone.
A significant upgrade recently completed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Radar Operations Center has allowed the worldwide network of Doppler weather radars to produce better information faster. Known as the Next Generation Radar or NEXRAD, the 158 operational and 8 support radars are operated by the Departments of Commerce, Transportation and Defense.
An event to recognize all of the agencies involved in the development, testing and deployment of the radar upgrade was held in Norman this morning. Brig. Gen. Jack Kelly USAF (Ret.), director of the National Weather Service, attended and presented the plaques.
Nearly 60 surplus federal computers that would have been discarded by two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agencies in Norman, the Radar Operations Center and the Storm Prediction Center, will instead serve to protect the lives and property of Oklahoma citizens and further the education of Oklahoma youth.
The NEXRAD Employees Association recently donated a new big screen television to Rosewood Manor Living Center, a local nursing home. The donation was made possible by proceeds from their annual golf tournament held in September.
The NEXRAD Operational Support Facility in Norman, Okla., an agency of the Departments of Commerce, Transportation and Defense, will add several new jobs through a new five year, $50 million task order for support services. The order is the largest to be awarded using a new, innovative government procurement system that supports small businesses, takes a solutions-based rather than product or service based approach and eliminates paperwork by utilizing electronic Internet-based processes.
Several employees of the NEXRAD Operational Support Facility in Norman recently received the Oklahoma Federal Executive Board’s Employee of the Year Award.
The annual tribute recognizes public administrators in Oklahoma whose careers exhibit the highest standards of excellence, dedication and accomplishment. The award is sponsored by the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration, a nationwide nonprofit educational and professional organization.
Managers of all federal help desks are invited to attend a free Federal Help Desk Forum on Tuesday, Feb. 29 at the Washington D.C. Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The forum will feature a full day program of help desk industry leaders offering a broad perspective on today’s help desk industry and practices, as well as networking sessions designed to promote exchange of ideas among similar federal help desks.