[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 33 (Friday, February 18, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 8346]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3139]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Office of Ocean.US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) 
Industry Day

AGENCY: National Ocean Service, NOAA, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to attend.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Ocean.US announces the opportunity to attend a 
briefing for interested organizations concerning plans to design, 
develop, fabricate, install and operate the Integrated Ocean Observing 
System (IOOS). The IOOS is in the exploratory planning phase and all 
interested parties are invited to provide input, ideas, concepts and 
suggestions toward ensuring its effective development.

DATES: March 18, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Hall of Flags, at the US Chamber of Commerce Bldg. located 
near the White House at 1615 H Street NW., Washington, DC 20062-2000. 
Admission is controlled and the material to be presented will be 
unclassified.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information regarding this 
Industry Day, contact Andy Clark at [email protected] or (703) 588-0846. 
To attend this event, phone or fax requests for registration material 
to: Mr. Gil Donohue, PH: (703) 442-7727; FX: (703) 442-8199. Include 
names of all attendees (3 maximum). Attendance is limited to three per 
company/organization. Suggested attendees: Senior Technologist, 
Business Development, Government Relations. Upon receipt of the 
completed IOOS Registration Package, potential attendees will receive a 
confirmation notice and other relevant information. Interested parties 
are reminded that no one will be admitted to the industry brief without 
this confirmation. Requests to attend this briefing must be received no 
later than 1600 EDT Friday 11 March 2005. Only individuals who have 
submitted their registration and clearance information by 1600 EDT on 
11 March 2005 and have received approval will be allowed to attend the 
IOOS Industry Day on 18 March 2005.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The IOOS is intended to be a ``user-driven'' 
integrated network that includes ocean observatories, data telemetry, 
data management and communications, systems and data analysis and 
modeling tools that reliably and continuously provide the data and 
information that is required to achieve the seven IOOS societal goals:
    (1) Improve predictions of climate change and weather and their 
effects on coastal communities and the nation;
    (2) Improve the safety and efficiency of marine operations;
    (3) More effectively mitigate the effects of natural hazard;
    (4) Improve national and homeland security;
    (5) Reduce public health risks;
    (6) More effectively protect and restore healthy coastal marine 
ecosystems; and
    (7) Enable the sustained use of marine resources.
    The IOOS is intended to become a national asset. IOOS may be 
characterized as a ``network centric, system-of-systems''. This large 
scale network will incorporate oceanographic, meteorological and 
atmospheric sensors offshore and onshore, sub sea and at sea surface, 
the equipment and telemetry methods to transmit this data first to 
information system (IS) that includes the hardware, software, 
middleware and storage capacity to collect, analyze, archive, 
distribute and disseminate the IOOS data. It is intended that portals 
will be developed to allow contributors around the nation to input 
their data and that the data will be made available through graphical 
user interfaces (GUIs) in order that users in the private sector, 
academia and the government may access it. It is the goal of Ocean.US 
to completely characterize all components required to address these 
goals and solicit from industry input and best commercial practices 
that will help to achieve them.

    Dated: February 14, 2005.
Mitchell Luxenberg,
Acting Associate Assistant Administrator for Management, Ocean Services 
and Coastal Zone Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-3139 Filed 2-17-05; 8:45 am]
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