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The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) has announced a change in the scheduled roll-out of the next generation of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) software package. Operational testing of the AWIPS II package is now planned to extend from January through summer of 2011, and deployment of AWIPS II to the National Weather Service's National Centers is now planned for the fourth quarter of 2011. NCEP expects to make AWIPS II available to the Unidata community during Winter of 2011/2012.

The change in schedule will allow Raytheon Technical Services (the contractor migrating the core AWIPS functionality to the AWIPS II architecture) to address any outstanding issues. The change also gives the AWIPS II development team at NCEP the opportunity to ensure that all existing National Centers AWIPS (NAWIPS) functionality including NMAP2, NWX, NTRANS and NSHARP is included in the AWIPS II application before the initial deployment.