NOAA FY16 Accomplishments and FY17 Initiatives

UNOLS Annual Meeting 11/30/16

CDR Colin Little, NOAA Marine Advisor to the Deputy Director for Operations, Office of Marine and Aviation

Operations

o  NOAA – UNOLS Partnership o  NOAA FY16 Ship Fleet Activities o  NOAA FY17 Fleet Allocation Plan o  NOAA funded days on UNOLS vessels o  What lies ahead

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Agenda

NOAA – UNOLS Partnership o  Renewal of ship time Inter-Agency Agreement

o  RVOC and RVTEC Meetings o  Schedule optimization between UNOLS operators and NOAA PI’s

o  UNOLS ships utilizing NOAA piers

o  Access to NOAA scheduling system

FY 2016 Field Season

NOAA Fleet Highlights FY16 o  Second year of CAPSTONE (Campaign to Address Pacific

monument Science, Technology, and Ocean Needs) o  Rotational crew model initiatives minimize lost DAS from staffing o  Fleet wide mandatory compliance for Ship Automated Maintenance

Management System (SAMMS) o  Sexual Harassment/Assault Prevention Initiatives o  Successful autonomous vehicle deployments o  Development of NOAA Fleet Plan

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83.4%85.1%

Fleet Safety Summary – FY16 o  Approximately30%ofreportableincidentsacrossOMAOwere

causedbyimproperfocusofa;en<onand/orcomplacency.o  Over40%ofNOAAtotalreportableincidentsoccurredonshipsand

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NOAA Fleet Challenges FY16 o  Growth of shipyard periods

o  Unscheduled repairs impact schedule projects

PresBud Fleet Allocation Plan FY17 o  3096 Days at Sea/3549 Operating Days scheduled

o  Ronald H. Brown – GO-SHIP P18 Repeat Hydrography, TAO Array maintenance, Gulf of Mexico Ocean Acidification

o  Okeanos Explorer – Continuation of CAPSTONE

NOAA Funded Projects

R/VF.G.WaltonSmithR/VHughR.Sharp

R/VSallyRide R/VRogerRevelle

R/VEndeavor

What Lies Ahead o  Ronald H. Brown – Probable Indian Ocean projects in FY18 including

GO-SHIP I7N line (last surveyed in 1995)

o  Continued expansion of staffing initiatives

o  Fleet recapitalization

Questions? o  CDR Colin Little, NOAA

o Colin.Little@noaa.gov o  301-713-7661