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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
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
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
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 [email protected] 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
843.740.1237