Naval Oceanographic Office

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Naval Oceanographic Office

• Homeland Security
• CAPT Pete Furze
• 28-29 Nov 01

Committee for Operational Processing Centers
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Greetings from COPC
to COPC
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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHIC COORDINATION
MEETING

• NAVOCEANO hosted meeting on 15-16 October
• Participants
• - Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO)
• - National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
  (NOAA) National Ocean Service (NOS)
• - NOAA National Environmental Satellite and Data
  and Information Service (NESDIS)
• - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Vicksburg
• Focus
• - Communication
• - Collaboration
• - Efficiency

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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHIC COORDINATION
MEETING

• Discussed collaborative approaches to
  ocean-related Homeland Security issues.
• Protection of
• - Waterways
• - Ports
• - Maritime transportation
• Three principal areas of discussion
• - Collaborative Survey Operations
• - Ocean Modeling Instrumentation
• - Data Networking, Processing Storage

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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPICCOORDINATION
MEETING

• Working Groups formed in each of the following
  areas
• 1. Collaborative Survey Operations
• -- Mine Countermeasures
• -- Maritime Domain Awareness
• 2. Modeling and Instrumentation
• 3. Data Networking, Processing and Storage

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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION
MEETING

• Collaborative Survey Operations Working Group
• Tasks
• Define the actual MCM port collection
  requirements.
• Navy and NOAA to resolve consolidated port list
  and priorities with Coast Guard input. Coast
  Guard will coordinate with civil and commercial
  port authorities.
• Define MCM maintenance requirements and develop a
  resource plan.
• Develop operational plan for baseline route
  surveys.

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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION
MEETING
Collaborative Survey Operations Working Group
Accomplishments

• Held meeting 14 Nov. in Wash, D.C. USACE, NOAA,
  NAVOCEANO, CINCLANTFLT, COMMINEWARCOM, Canadian
  Navy, and EOD Mobile Unit 7 attended to exchange
  initial survey technical issues and discuss
  near-term collaborative survey plans.
• Conducting collaborative survey operations in
  Kings Bay, GA.
• Next meeting 11 Dec. to plan joint Norfolk
  survey.

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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPICCOORDINATION
MEETING

• Modeling and Instrumentation Working Group
• NAVOCEANO will organize a workshop to consider
  coordination of physical modeling and data needs
  for Homeland Security to
• (1) Share information on operational and
  quasi-operational physical models for
  currents, water level, and pollution transport.
• (2) Discuss continuing approaches to
• - Inventory, coordination, and centralized
  dissemination of model output.
• - Share model code and outputs.
• - Compare among model outputs and
  observations for model validation
• - Share technical capabilities (e.g. data
  assimilation techniques).
• (3) Define RD requirements needed to transition
  priority models in geographic areas.

Tasks
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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION
MEETING
Modeling and Instrumentation Working Group
Accomplishments

• Developed and disseminated Model Inventory
  template to partners in modeling community.
  Responses have started coming in.
• Planning workshop to be held at NAVO 29-30 Nov.
  Approximately 20 senior technical representatives
  will attend from NOAA, USACE, EPA, NAVO, NRL, and
  others.
• Objectives of the workshop include
• - Options for national coordination for
  hydrodynamic contaminant fate modeling for 50
  ports.
• - Data requirements to support the above
  modeling.
• - Data Networking requirements for real-time data
  and model product dissemination.
• - Inventory of existing model implementations and
  supporting data.

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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION
MEETING

• Data Networking, Processing, Storage Working
  Group
• Tasks
• (1) Address classification level for this
  Homeland Security effort.
  Recommend Unclassified
• (2) Address coordinated contingency response.
• (3) Interact with customer base (new) to define
  custom products.
• (4) All agencies will press their RD communities
  to determine what applied science can be rapidly
  transitioned to an operational capability.
• (5) Establish Points of Contact and working
  groups to
• - Coordinate common hydrographic data formats,
  product deliverables, and contractual support.
• - Coordinate interagency data processing,
  networking, and storage efforts.
• - Navy and NOAA to discuss collaborative ENC
  co-production and maintenance efforts.
• - Navy and NOAA to discuss MCM related processing
  and production.

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HOMELAND SECURITY OCEANOGRAPHICCOORDINATION
MEETING
Data Networking, Processing, Storage Working
Group
Accomplishments

• Held introductory meeting at National Coastal
  Data Development Center (NCCDC) on 22 October to
  establish working relationship.
• Held technical meeting at NCDDC 31 October.
• Pending NCDDC visit to NAVOCEANO for technical
  details.
• Full meeting of WG to occur 28 -29 November.
• Agenda items include
• Briefings on Core Capabilities
• Perspectives on GIS
• Classification of effort
• Coordinated contingency response.
• Product Definition
• Emergent RD
• Data Formats
• Required contractual support
• Collaborative relegation of processing,
  networking, storage

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Navy Operational Oceanography
(1) Formed Crisis Action Team (CAT) to plan
Homeland Security Actions. (2) Provide 24/7
operational support for Homeland Security. (3)
Provide Daily/Weekly Intel briefs for SSC
agencies. (4) Implement CONUS circulation model
(8 km) to provide boundary conditions for higher
resolution nested models. (5) Conducting
collaborative CONUS port survey ops, including
Q-routes. (6) Providing 3 ships, HSLs, AUV and
personnel for Homeland Security surveys. (7)
Sharing U.S. port data with National Partners.
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Questions?