October 2011 Status Update: NAWIPS Migration to AWIPS II

According to Scott Jacobs, acting chief of the NCEP Systems Integration Branch, NCEP Central Operations (NCO) continued its work on the National Centers Perspective (NCP) client software in September in preparation for forecaster testing, currently scheduled for November. "The development of the required functionality is coming together and we will be conducting full system tests in October to suss out any final issues or bugs that would affect the user experience during their testing," said Jacobs.

Near the end of September, Raytheon and the NWS Office of Science and Technology (OST) delivered a 64-bit version of the client to the NCEP sites. Previous versions had run only in 32-bit mode. "This version is for the users to test AWIPS I functionality," said Jacobs. "The testing has just begun, and a few configuration issues have been reported and fixed." Full stress testing of the 64-bit version is under way and the results will be reported to OST and Raytheon.