Definition
Restructuring the National Weather Service’s budget, organization, and governance to improve service delivery and achieve the strategic outcome of Building a Weather-Ready Nation.
Introduction: Current Mission and the Need for Change
The National Weather Service (NWS) is a federal government agency with the mission to provide real-time observations, forecasts, and warnings of weather, water, and short-term climate events to save lives, protect property, and enhance the Nation’s economy. The NWS accomplishes its mission through a real-time, end-to-end forecast process, described in Fig. 1.
End-to-end forecast process and value chain at the National Weather Service
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Blank R (2012) Letter written November 21, 2012 to The Honorable Gene L. Dodaro Retrieved 21 Nov 2012, from http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/661921.PDF
Bridgespan Group (2009) Designing an effective organization structure [PowerPoint Slides]
Brook DA (2012) Budgeting for national security: a whole of government perspective. J Public Budgeting Account Financ Manag 24(1):32–57
Cels S, De Jong J, Nauta F (2012) Agents of change. Brookings Institution Press, Harrisonburg
Christensen CM (2000) The Innovator’s dilemma. Harper Business, New York
Grant Thornton (2013) Final report for the financial analysis of the national weather service, Order Number: EA-1330-12-NC-1264
Goodsell CT (2011) Mission mystique: belief systems in public agencies. CQ Press, Washington, DC, 273 pp
Gore A (1993) From red tape to results: creating a government that works better and costs less (rep.). Office of the Vice President, Washington, DC
Government Accountability Office (2012) Streamlining government: questions to consider when evaluating proposals to consolidate physical infrastructure and management functions, Rep. No. GAO-12-542. U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC, pp 1–55
Kotter JP (1996) Leading change. Harvard Business School Press, Boston
National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) (2013) Forecast for the future assuring the capacity of the National Weather Service (Rep. No. 2174). National Academies, Washington, DC
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2011) NOAA’s National Weather Service Strategic Plan. National Weather Service, Washington, DC
National Research Council (NRC) (2012) Weather Services for the Nation: becoming second to none. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.17226/13429
Posner BG, Rothstein LR (1994) Reinventing the business of government: an interview with change catalyst David Osborne. Harvard Business Review, Boston
Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act, H.R. 353, 115th Congress (2017)
Xue Y, Guo Y (2013) Corporate governance effects of strategy-making process. Manag Des Eng 12:1838–5745
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
About this entry
Cite this entry
Uccellini, L.W., Ten Hoeve, J.E., Lenihan, S., Bleistein, A.J., Draggon, C., Lovern, M.A. (2018). Restructuring the National Weather Service to Build a Weather-Ready Nation. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3634-1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3634-1
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-31816-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-31816-5
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Economics and FinanceReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences