Post on 01-Apr-2015
Gary DaytonProject Manager
Office of Science and TechnologyNational Weather Service
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NOAA Weather RadioBroadcast Message Handler
Project
Objectives
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• Replace legacy Console Replacement System (CRS)• 15 years old (far beyond end of life)• Hardware and software support difficult
• Leverage AWIPS II• Hardware Baseline• Software baseline• O&M• Tech refresh
• WFO Forecasters• Minimal• Same user interface and functionality as CRS
• Public• None• Same weather products
Impacts
CRS Hardware (Legacy)
3
AWIPS
DX1 & DX2
Gigabit Switch
ACP/Voice Processor
FEPS 4BKUPAWIPS LAN Bridge
Master MP
VIP
Shadow MPASA
CRS
AWIPS II/BMH Hardware
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AWIPS
PX1 & PX2
Gigabit Switch
LX1...LXn
DX1 & DX2 ….
DAC 1
DAC 2
DAC n
BMH High Level Data Flow
5
AWIPS II
DXs
NWRWaves
TX. 1
TX. 2
TX. N
AWIPS II PostgresDatabase
TextProductText
ProductTextProduct
LXs
BMH ForegroundProcesses
VoIP PacketsVoIP Packets
VoIP PacketsVoIP Packets
VoIP PacketsDACs
PXs
BMH BackgroundProcesses
AWIPS II
PostgressDatabase
TextProduct
NWRWaves
TextProduct
CRS
TextProduct
TextProductText
ProductFEPs
MPs
VIP
TX. 1
TX. 2
TX. N
Legacy CRS AWIPS II BMH
BMH Architecture
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BMH Progress
• Completed Functional Requirements Document• Completed Preliminary Design Review• Completed Critical Design Review• AWIPS II Software Development Initiated• Digital Analog Converters Tested and Approved for Production
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BMH Schedule
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Task Start Finish
Functional Requirements Document 09/12/13 11/25/13High level Design Document 12/17/13 04/09/14Software Design Document 01/17/13 05/20/14Preliminary Design Review 03/27/14 03/27/14Critical Design Review 05/21/14 05/21/14Software Development 05/05/14 12/19/14Initial Software Demonstration 08/27/14 08/27/14DAC Delivery 11/01/14 12/31/14Final Software Demonstration 12/17/14 12/17/14Software Integration Testing (SWIT) 12/22/14 02/19/15Software Acceptance Testing (SAT) 03/10/15 03/15/15Alpha Testing 03/16/15 04/28/15Operational Test and Evaluation 04/20/15 07/24/15Deployment Readiness Review 07/27/15 07/28/15Deployment 08/05/15 09/16/15