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NOAA Coastal Services Center

Miki Schmidt

MAPPS Winter Meeting

Federal Update Session

January 29, 2013

Update Topics

What does

NOAA CSC do?

How big should

your water

wings be?

NGS contracting

update

Other Digital

Coast Act

champions

NOAA

leadership

musical chairs

CSC Technical

Support Services

contract re-compete

and ProTech

Digital Coast ROI

& user feedback

CSC Coastal

Geospatial

Services

IDIQ/TOMIS

update

Coastal

GeoTools

Conference

A new Coastal

Office in NOS

Sandy

Supplemental

and NOAA

Meet the NOAA

GIO

NOAA Coastal Services Center

• Provides the technology, information, and management strategies used by local, state, and national organizations to address complex coastal issues

• Constituents include: • Coastal planners

• Natural resource agencies

• Emergency officials

• Estuarine reserves

• Floodplain managers

• Conservation organizations

Coastal Challenges: Communities at Risk

Coastal Challenges: Communities at Risk

Coastal Challenges: Balancing Uses

Barriers

Sources: various surveys and constituent feedback

• Coastal data

• Data integration and accessibility

• Improved intergovernmental coordination

• Techie and non-techie tools

• Training

• Outreach and awareness

Digital Coast Website

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operations, research,

and facilities - $290,000,000 (reduced by $150,000,000

(1) $50,000,000 for mapping, charting, geodesy services and marine debris surveys for

coastal States impacted by Hurricane Sandy;

(2) $7,000,000 to repair and replace ocean observing and coastal monitoring assets

damaged

(3) $3,000,000 to provide technical assistance to support State assessments of coastal

impacts

(4) $25,000,000 to improve weather forecasting and hurricane intensity forecasting

capabilities, to include data assimilation from ocean observing platforms and satellites;

(5) $50,000,000 for laboratories and cooperative institutes research activities associated

with sustained observations weather research programs, and ocean and coastal

research; and

(6) $5,000,000 for necessary expenses related to fishery disasters during calendar year

2012 that were declared by the Secretary of Commerce as a direct result of impacts

from Hurricane Sandy:

NOAA shall submit a spending plan within 45 days after the date of enactment...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - procurement,

acquisition and construction - $186,000,000, to remain available until

September 30, 2015, as follows:

(1)$9,000,000 to repair National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy;

(2) $44,500,000 for repairs and upgrades to NOAA hurricane reconnaissance

aircraft;

(3) $8,500,000 for improvements to weather forecasting equipment and

supercomputer infrastructure;

(4) $13,000,000 to accelerate the National Weather Service ground readiness

project; and

(5) $111,000,000 for a weather satellite data mitigation gap reserve fund

• Brooks Act, Architecture and Engineering (A&E), Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 36 – Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)

• Four prime contractors with over 100 subcontractors • Awarded March 1, 2011; Ends February 28, 2016

• $70.6 million ceiling ($17.65 million per award)

• Access by others through Memorandums of Understanding

• Small Fee

Coastal Geospatial Services Contract

Contract Services 1. Thematic mapping

2. Data acquisition; aerial and satellite

3. Spectral image processing, analysis, and interpretation

4. High Resolution Topographic/Bathymetric product generation

5. Photogrammetric mapping, Aerotriangulation, and Orthophotography

6. Cadastral Mapping (terrestrial and marine)

7. Software application and decision-support tool development

8. Survey and control services

9. Geospatial data analysis, integration, assimilation, and modeling

10. Acoustic data acquisition

11. Sediment profile imaging and analysis

12. Geospatial analyses in land use, coastal conservation, coastal hazards, marine spatial planning, water quality, and climate change

13. Geospatial Training

69 Task Orders - $14.3 M

Subcontractors - 15 Task Orders $1.7 M

Current Contract Vehicles Using TOMIS

• NOAA Coastal Services Center

• NOAA National Geodetic Survey

• NOAA Office of Coast Survey

• NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services

• U.S. Geological Survey

• USDA National Resource Conservation Office

TOMIS

TOMIS Update

• Currently in Beta Testing

• Release anticipated in FY13 Q3

• Incorporates lessons learned since inception

• More Functionality for Contractors

• Access to more reports

• Better access to Past Performance Info

TOMIS

NOAA CSC Technical Support Services Contract

• Current contract will expire in September of this year. • The competition package is at our Eastern Acquisition Division • Expect the RFP within the next 2 to 4 weeks • Award in early summer • Small Business set-aside and will be on GSA Schedule • Contact Contracting Officer with questions

melissa.r.sampson@noaa.gov

NOAA ProTech Contract

• NOAA's contracting office is working on this contract for scientific and technical services

• Expectation is that this contract will take the place of many smaller technical service contracts throughout NOAA

• Five domains (Fisheries; Meteorological; Oceans and Coastal; Satellites; and Enterprise Solutions)

• Due to the size and complexity of this contract, exact award date is unknown and no RFP has been released

• CSC TSS possibly impacted in future • The Contracting Officer for ProTech is Michael Blumenfeld

michael.blumenfeld@noaa.gov

National Geodetic Survey Contracts

Shoreline Mapping Contract re-compete: - Evaluations of respondents still ongoing. Trying to award this FY. Current Shoreline Mapping Contract: - Expires beginning of March - Options are being considered with possibility of supplemental as well as to meet traditional requirements - Plenty of ceiling on the contract. GRAV-D currently contracting with Fugro to collect Florida

Coastal GeoTools 2013 • Keynotes:

- Dawn Wright – ESRI/Oregon State University

- Katrina Sandy: Lessons Learned

• Expanded Exhibitor Hall

• Expanded Program (record # abstracts)

• Expanded Technology Showcase

• Special Interest Meetings

- Hack-a-map-a-thon

- Coastal Inundation mapping

- Data Services

- Establishing the Value of

Geospatial Information

• Collateral events

Coastal GeoTools Exhibitors

NOAA GIO – Tony LaVoi Tony.lavoi@noaa.gov 843-740-1274

• FGDC Executive Committee and Coordination Group • FGDC Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee [chair] • National Geospatial Platform Core Team • FGDC National Spatial Data Infrastructure Strategic Plan Core Team • International Coastal Atlas Network Steering Committee • National Ocean Council Marine Information Systems Working Group

[ocean.data.gov] • NOAA GIS Committee [chair] • NOAA Environmental Data Management Committee • NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping Committee • NOAA Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Data and Tools Team [chair]

• Benefits are 3.5 times greater than costs

• 254 percent return on investment

• Net present value is $41.8 million

• Fiscal year 2012 benefit projection is $6.47 million

Digital Coast ROI

What product/service did you obtain from the Digital Coast?

68.9%

26.8%

21.1%

12.6%

6.3%

14.7%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Data

Tools

Training/Educational Resource

Case Studies

Technical Assistance

Other (please specify)

N = 190

Rate your degree of satisfaction with the quality of the Digital Coast website.

N = 181

3%

3%

7%

39%

40%

8%

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45

Not at All Satisfied

Not Satisfied

No Opinion

Satisfied

Extremely Satisfied

N/A

Feedback

"Thanks for making our jobs easier!" OH Dept of Natural Resources

"Digital Coast takes really important data and makes it actionable. Tools provided through the Digital Coast fill a lot of gaps for the have-nots in public safety." National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation

"The Digital Coast Partnership is an excellent example of effectively governing a federal initiative with a large stakeholder community." National States Geographic Information Council

“Every time I go on that site I find something new that I love. My goal is to spend more time promoting NOAA tools in our communities and less time making our own tools.” FL Dept of Community Affairs

American Planning Association

Association of State Floodplain Managers

Coastal States Organization

National Association of Counties

National States Geographic Information Council

The Nature Conservancy

NOAA Digital Coast Champions

NOAA Coastal Programs Planning a Merger

• NOAA Coastal Services Center

• NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management

- Coastal Programs

- Estuarine Research Reserves

- Corals

- others

Primary drivers: efficiency, opportunity, and urgency

Strategic Outcomes

• Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

• Resilient Coastal Communities

• Thriving Coastal Economies

Timeline • Plan due March 2013 • If approved, implement Oct 2013

NOAA Coastal Programs Planning a Merger

NOAA HQ Changes

Dr. Jane Lubchenco

Under Secretary of

Commerce for Oceans

and Atmosphere and

NOAA Administrator

Dr. David Titley

Deputy Under

Secretary for

Operations

David Kennedy

Associate

Administrator for

the National

Ocean Service

Dr. Holly Bamford

Acting Associate

Administrator for the

National Ocean

Service

“How Big Should My Water Wings Be?”

Billion Dollar Disasters: Fact of Life

Sea Level Trend: Atlantic City, NJ

Mean Sea Level Trend

Shrewsbury River, NJ

Adaptation Costs of Climate Change Risks

Managing Risk: Who Pays?

Sandy: A Turning Point?

Change is Here: Time to Act is Now

For More Information

www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast

Nicholas.Schmidt@noaa.gov

843.740.1237