NOAA Value Model Support to NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture (NSOSA)

The NOAA mission value model (NOAA Observing System Integrated Analysis, NOSIA) is a very large portfolio analysis model, which includes nearly 1200 NOAA products and services and  several hundred observing programs important for meeting NOAA's missions.  NOSIA is designed to assess the impact of these observing programs to a mission area by adding or removing individual or collections of observing systems (such as ships or satellites) from NOAA's extensive portfolio.

This talk will describe a new approach NOAA is taking to assess the impact or Measure of Effectiveness (MoE) of various proposed future constellations of satellites (architectures) in NOSIA for the 2030 timeframe.  This approach, in support of the NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture (NSOSA) project within NESDIS, first maps proposed satellite architecture capabilities to observation user requirements to obtain Measures of Performance (MoP) demanded by NOAA's products and services. It then links these MoP's into NOSIA's highly interdependent product network to obtain product-level MoE's. These product-level MoE's then continue to transmit observing system benefits upward through NOAA's business model, ultimately producing MoE's at the Mission Services level of the model, which reflect NOAA's objectives articulated in the NOAA Next Generation Strategic Plan.

This approach has been developed to demonstrate the benefit of Mission Value Modeling to preference-order Satellite Architecture investments from among multiple new technologies or space-based observing mission options.