Session 3 FederalRegional Relations: DMACspecific Issues

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Session 3Federal/Regional Relations
DMAC-specific Issues

• 2nd Annual Fall IOOS Regional Workshop
• St. Petersburg, FL
• 23-25 October 2007

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Charge to Breakout Group

• National-level DMAC has provided a "top-down"
  forcing function for regional DMAC development,
  while the regions are working, by in large, from
  a bottoms-up perspective. When the two paradigms
  meet in the middle, what will be the result?
• From the regional perspective
• What have been the most useful/effective items of
  national-level "top-down" DMAC guidance that have
  helped shape the regional DMAC approach? Why has
  it been so useful or effective?
• What are the perceived gaps in national-level
  "top-down" DMAC guidance.
• Are there any "enterprise level" services or
  infrastructure that your region expects will be
  provided at the national level? What are the
  criteria for making such a determination?
• What is the expected Concept of Operations for
  regional utilization of the national standards
  review and approval process (in the review and
  adjudication phase and in the post-approval
  phase)?
• From the national perspective
• Once the DMAC-ST is re-energized, do we need to
  improve the method of communicating with the
  regions? What would be the guiding principles
  used to formulate such a strategy?
• Based on any positive responses from Q2 and/or Q3
  above, how can/should the national DMAC/
  Ocean.US respond?

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Methodology

• Our goal is to collect feedback and insight on
  the questions, not necessarily to solve them in
  real-time
• We have 6 questions and approximately 2.5 hours
• Suggest that we employ a modified PTI approach
  (with apologies to Kornheiser and Wilbon)
• Twenty minutes (maximum) for each question
• Ten minutes to discuss within each Team
• Each team picks a spokesperson (Tony or Michael)
• Ten minutes to outbrief/discuss
• For Regional perspective questions, Team Wilbon
  will lead
• For National perspective questions, Team
  Kornheiser will lead
• Stay on topic and be succinct
• At end of the discussion, we will stop and
  evaluate our collective thoughts
• We will include some time at the end to allow
  discussion on other topics or concerns
• Sherryl and I reserve the right to modify the
  format on the fly if we crash and burn

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Breakout Group Participants

• Team Kornheiser
• Anne Ball Ocean.US, NOAA/NOS CSC
• CAPT. Chris Moore NOAA/NOS IOOS PMO
• Bill Burnett NOAA/NWS NDBC
• Jim Boyd NOAA/NOS CSC
• John Ulmer NOAA/NOS CSC
• Daniel Martin NOAA/NOS CSC
• Team Wilbon
• Rob Cermak AOOS
• Jorge Capella CaRA
• David Foley CenCOOS
• Matt Howard GCOOS
• Pete Giencke GLOS
• Bill Boicourt MACOORA
• Bill Howe NANOOS
• Phil Bogden NERACOOS
• Jim Potemra PacIOOS
• Paul Reuter SCCOOS

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Question 1 Effective National DMAC Guidance
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Question 2 Key Gaps in DMAC Guidance
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Question 3 National Infrastructure/Services
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Question 4 Standards Process Conopts
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Question 5 Communications Principles
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Question 6 Ocean.US/DMAC Response
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Other Issues and Concerns