Themed Joint Panel Discussion 1 Panel Session on improving the research to operations transition process

Monday, 7 January 2013: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Ballroom A (Austin Convention Center)
Focus of Session: This Session will be an invited panel of experts addressing the question, “How can we improve the research-to-operations transition process?” The panel members will give their perspective on transitioning successful research to successful operational use and they will discuss the central role R2O plays in addressing this year’s annual theme. Panel members will be prepared to discuss the challenges to R2O, and the potential means to overcome them, including the following topics: • Science mission requirements versus operational user needs; • Adequate and timely funding for research that is targeted to meet operational needs, the transition, and operational sustainment; • The lag between deploying research and full user exploitation; • Challenges in communicating the benefits of new capabilities to user communities, including the public, government policy makers, commercial industry, and the military. The high economic and social value of our ability to observe and accurately predict atmospheric and ocean conditions requires strong relationships between the academic, Government, and industrial communities to effectively and efficiently transfer research results to the operational environment. Partnerships and collaboration will result in clear articulation of operational needs, and joint efforts to secure research funding and procurement of necessary operational systems. Researcher accessibility and insight into the operations environment and data for development, test, and evaluation, coupled with an operational workforce that embraces and pursues research opportunities, will facilitate collaboration between the two communities. Such a partnership will accelerate transitions of research to operations, while simultaneously ensuring the transfer of operations knowledge back to research (O2R). This R2O – O2R relationship will improve the balance between operational needs, research initiatives, and transfer of results into systems, technology, methods, processes, and procedures that enhance our ability to serve the public.
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the First Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise )
Panelists:
Thomas J. Bogdan, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Laura Furgione, NWS, Deputy Director for National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD; Sandy MacDonald, SPIRE, Boulder, CO; Robert S. Marshall, Earth Networks, President & CEO, Germantown, MD and David W. Titley, Penn State University, University Park, PA
Cochairs:
Timothy J. Hall, The Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD and Suzanne Hilding, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

Focus of Session: This Session will be an invited panel of experts addressing the question, “How can we improve the research-to-operations transition process?” The panel members will give their perspective on transitioning successful research to successful operational use and they will discuss the central role R2O plays in addressing this year’s annual theme. Panel members will be prepared to discuss the challenges to R2O, and the potential means to overcome them, including the following topics: • Science mission requirements versus operational user needs; • Adequate and timely funding for research that is targeted to meet operational needs, the transition, and operational sustainment; • The lag between deploying research and full user exploitation; • Challenges in communicating the benefits of new capabilities to user communities, including the public, government policy makers, commercial industry, and the military. The high economic and social value of our ability to observe and accurately predict atmospheric and ocean conditions requires strong relationships between the academic, Government, and industrial communities to effectively and efficiently transfer research results to the operational environment. Partnerships and collaboration will result in clear articulation of operational needs, and joint efforts to secure research funding and procurement of necessary operational systems. Researcher accessibility and insight into the operations environment and data for development, test, and evaluation, coupled with an operational workforce that embraces and pursues research opportunities, will facilitate collaboration between the two communities. Such a partnership will accelerate transitions of research to operations, while simultaneously ensuring the transfer of operations knowledge back to research (O2R). This R2O – O2R relationship will improve the balance between operational needs, research initiatives, and transfer of results into systems, technology, methods, processes, and procedures that enhance our ability to serve the public.

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