Office of Program Planning and Integration

Regional Team Forum Reports

• NOAA Regional Team - Central
  • Attachment to Central Region Report
• NOAA Regional Team - Great Lakes
• NOAA Regional Team - Western

Current Planning Documents

• The U.S. Department of Commerce Strategic Plan
• The NOAA Strategic Plan: 2009-2014
• The NOAA Annual Guidance Memorandum
• NOAA and our Nation (the NOAA 4-pager)
• NOAA's Enduring Functions: A Primer on the NOAA Functional Model

Strategy Papers for Corporate Priorities

• Climate [2-pager]
• Strategic Plan for a National Climate Service
• Coasts [2-pager] [20-pager]
• High-Impact Weather, Water [2-pager] [20-pager]
• Oceans and Marine Life [2-pager]
  [20-pager]
• Transportation [2-pager] [20-pager]
• Infrastructure [2-pager] [20-pager]
• Arctic [2-pager] [20-pager]

Derivative Strategic Plans

• NESDIS [FY 2003 - 2008]
• NMFS [FY 2003 - 2008]
• NOS [FY 2003 - 2008]
• NWS [FY 2003 - 2008]
• OAR [FY 2003 - 2008]

Strategic Plans from other agencies

• DoE
• EPA
• NASA
• USGS

Prior NOAA Strategic Plans

• FY 2006 - 2011
• FY 2005 - 2010
• FY 2003 - 2008
• FY 1998 - 2005

Prior NOAA Annual Guidance Memoranda

• FY 2011 - 2015
• FY 2010 - 2014
• FY 2009 - 2013
• FY 2008 - 2012
• FY 2007 - 2011

Development of the Next Generation Strategic Plan

• NOAA's Next Generation Strategic Plan (an introductory presentation)
• Scenarios for 2035: Long Term Trends, Challenges and Uncertainties Facing NOAA

Key External Reference Documents:

Ocean and Coastal:

• Ocean Commission Report
• Pew Oceans Commission Report
• Joint Ocean Commission Initiative

Climate:

• United States Global Change Research Program
• Synthesis and Assessment Products
• Unified Synthesis Product - Global Climate Change in the United States
• IPCC Reports

Broad-Based Ecosystem Issues:

• Transition to Green
• MAFAC Vision 2020

Risk Assessments:

• World Economic Forum: Global Risks 2009

Scenario Planning Methods:

• Lindgren, Mats and Hans Bandhold. 2003. Scenario Planning: The Link Between Future and Strategy. ISBN: 0-333-99317-9.
• Ralston, Bill and Ian Wilson. 2006. The Scenario-Planning Handbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Developing and Using Strategies to Direct Strategy in Today's Uncertain Times. ISBN: 0-324-31285-7.
• Schwartz, Peter. 1996.The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. ISBN: 0-385-26732-0.