The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) will feature an advanced suite of sensors and communications capability that will provide data of greater potential societal benefit than its predecessors. NOAA has established the NPOESS Data Exploitation (NDE) Project to ensure that this potential is realized, beginning with the risk reduction NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP). The NDE Project will provide the sole link to the civilian real-time satellite data user communities. The NDE Project is based on three complementary development efforts. One is the development of the information technology infrastructure that will ingest, process, and stage the large volumes of NPP/NPOESS data for timely distribution. NDE's product development effort will provide both tailored NPOESS data records and science-enhanced NOAA-unique products to meet the requirements of NOAA's users. The third effort is the integration of the NDE and end user systems, including development of application-specific training to use data products, and planning and execution of interface and end-to-end testing between the systems. This paper describes these components of the NDE System and the phased schedule to implement them.