The National Weather Service (NWS) is making an effort to effectively reflect forecasters’ needs into policies and requirements for developers by renovating the process to develop and implement requirements into solutions, which include models, systems, technologies, and methodologies. The current NWS Governance guides us to first develop requirements independently of the developers. and then deliver them to the developers after going through a formal validation process. While this process itself is now widely understood and received, its application to actual situations is currently not considered optimal since the process is taking rather too long and the needed resources to implement the validated requirements is not sufficiently discussed and assigned. As a result, the validated requirements tend not to be delivered to the developers in time, and thus the field's needs are not properly and promptly addressed by the solutions. The Analysis and Nowcast Branch (AFS11; to be soon renamed to Analysis and Forecast Branch) of the Analyze, Forecast and Support Office has been making an effort to improve this situation. We are organizing a Town Hall Meeting to continue discussing ways to improve this situation and improve the NWS’ analysis and forecasting.

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