AWIPS II Technology Infusion is a multiphase program. The first phase is the migration of the Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) and River Forecast Centers (RFCs) AWIPS capabilities into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The migration is being conducted by Raytheon Technical Services Company (RTS) under the direction of the NWS Office of Science and Technology (OST) and is expected to be complete in 2011 with deployment targeted to begin by the latter part of 2011.

This paper provides a summary of the current activities necessary to support the Operational Test and Evaluation which will be lead by the NWS Office of Operational Systems (OOS) and subsequent deployment of the migrated software.