EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Environmental Assessment and Prediction Mission
Environmental Stewardship Mission
Crosscutting Initiatives
Reducing Costs and Improving Effectiveness
National Performance Review, Streamlining and Reinvention
Strategic Planning and the Government Performance
and Results Act
Benefits of Partnerships
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Traditional Structure
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Strategic Plan Structure
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Benefits of Partnerships
NOAA builds partnerships with universities; federal, state, local and
international entities; industries and businesses; and groups and individuals
to address common needs and leverage resources. For example, the Fishery
Management Councils are innovative partnerships bringing resource managers
and fishing interests to the same table to address concerns and make management
decisions. International leadership and federal-state collaboration helps
ensure the conservation of living marine resources, especially straddling
fish stocks and threatened endangered and other at-risk marine species.
NOAA also helps advance the state of science and technology in atmospheric
and oceanographic fields by coordinating related research and environmental
monitoring efforts around the globe. NOAA continues to work with local communities
to formulate and oversee policies and programs to address fishery resource
disasters in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Northeast, and the Gulf
of Mexico. NOAA also has unique state-federal partnerships with coastal
states to provide technical assistance and financial support for the development
and implementation of state coastal zone management plans and estuarine
research reserves.
NOAA depends strongly on universities to help accomplish science objectives
in its mission areas. NOAA and university scientists collaborate on severe
weather, climate, oceanography, atmospheric chemistry and fisheries research
via a network of ten Joint and Cooperative Institutes at universities around
the Nation. NOAA also funds academic researchers through competitive, peer-reviewed
programs, including the Climate and Global Change Program, National Sea
Grant College Program, the National Undersea Research Program, Coastal Ocean
Science, and the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. The National
Sea Grant College Program network includes 29 Sea Grant College Programs
that provide critical research and community services for the nation. NOAA
has established a NOAA-University partnership to enhance collaboration with
universities, and will host its second series of workshops in 1998 with
a broad range of both academic and other constituents to provide for constituent
input and feedback into NOAA's strategic planning and budget formulation
process.
Weather and climate services are provided to the public and industry
through a unique partnership between NOAA and the private meteorological
sector. NOAA provides forecasts and warnings for public safety, and the
private sector promotes dissemination of forecasts and the tailoring of
basic information for business uses. NOAA generally is seeking to reduce
the costs of environmental data collection and to improve access to space-based
and other environmental monitoring technologies by utilizing existing Federal
and international assets, and planning for the next generation of polar-orbiting
satellites. |