The National Weather Service (NWS) is making a continuing effort to improve the process to develop requirements and implement them into solutions, in terms of models, systems, technologies, and methodologies in order to effectively reflect forecasters’ needs into policies and requirements. The NWS Governance guides us to first develop requirements independently of the developers (but share with them for a validity check in a later stage), and then formally deliver them to the developers after going through the NWS 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 systematically implemented into the solutions, and thus the field's needs are not properly and promptly addressed by the solutions. The Analysis and Forecast Branch (AFS11) within the Analyze, Forecast and Support Office of the NWS 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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