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)

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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

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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