GSD OB8 Requirements

Task OB8.1
DCS
OB8.2
DCS
OB8.3
DCS
D2D tasks
Warning By Polygon 3406 3431  
HazCollect to call NWRWAVES vice CAFE 3407    
Improve WarnGen performance   3432  
Stack tracing   TBD  
Estimated Actual Velocity   3420  
Super-res 88D base products   3421  
MSAS RPU   3438  
LAPS/MSAS integration (code to baseline)     deferred
Integrated radar/environmental sampling     3451
WSR-88D dual polarization     3450
FX-Net maintenance     deferred
GFE tasks
GFE for RFCs   3422 no DCS
GFE Service Backup     3452
WaveWatch III - GFE     3473
DHM for GFE at RFCs     deferred
Integration Handoff Checklists
  3406 OB8.2 OB8.3
OB8.3.1 DRs
OB8.3.2 DRs

The only remaining HPs are ds1/ds2, which are being phased out at WFOs in OB8(.2) and ls1, which is targeted for replacement before OB8.2. The hardware architecture changes part of this work are described in a June 2004 NGIT presentation (with Raytheon 7/07 architecture diagram updates).

OB8/OB9 draft Schedule as of 22 Jan 07; OB8.2 dates updated 9 Apr; OB8.2/OB8.3 dates updated 3, 30 May; OB8.1 deployment date and some OB8.2 dates updated 5 Jul. OB8.2/OB8.3 dates adjusted 10 Aug based on OB8 schedule v14d. OB8.2 SIT dates adjusted 4 Sep. OB8.3 PIT check-in changed 25 Oct. OB8.3 Beta, SyAT, SVR updated 18 Apr. Latest OB8 schedule (PDF), Jun 08.

OB8 Key Schedule Dates:

Milestone OB8.1 Date OB8.2 Date OB8.3 Date
finalize COTS/freeware list 1 Aug 06 15 Jan 07 15 Jun 23 May 16 Jul 07
Technical, Design, Interface reviews 1 Sep - 1 Dec 15 Jan -14 Jun 1 Sep 06 - 19 Oct 07
Test plan reviews 1 Sep 06 - 12 Jan 07 16 Apr - 15 Jun 1 Oct - 3 Dec
Build test environment 3 - 24 Nov 3 - 11 May 2 - 9 Nov
Code check-in for PIT 24 Nov 16 23 May 14 13 Nov
Final fixes for PIT 6 Dec N/A N/A
PIT - using nhda 11 - 15 Dec 12 - 15 Jun 11 - 14 Dec
Integration hand-off 3 - 12 Jan 07 31 May - 15 - 29 Jun 26 Nov - 7 Dec
Code check-in for SwIT 11 Jan 3 Jul 14 Dec 2 Jan 08
SwIT 15 Jan - 16 Mar 25 5 Jul - 17 Aug 7 Jan - 8 Feb
Check-in for β critical DRs 11 Apr 12 Sep 13 Feb
SIT 19 Mar - 20 Apr 2027 Aug - 2128 Sep 11 Feb - 14 Mar
Alpha Test 28 Feb 3 - 19 Apr 19 Mar - 13 Apr 27 22 Aug - 21 Sep 18 Feb - 14 Mar
Beta Test 24 Apr - 29 Jun 24 Sep - 2 Nov 14 Dec 1724 Mar - 18 Apr 30 May 6 Jun
UM, Release Notes 16 Apr (β), 29 Jun 1 Oct, 14 Dec 3 Mar, 30 May
SMM 23 Apr, 29 Jun 8 Oct, 14 Dec 10 Mar, 30 May
Last post-Beta checkin 8 Jun 14 Nov 23 Apr
SyAT 12 - 13 Jun 26 Nov - 7 Dec 1219 - 23 May
SVR 28 Jun 07 14 Dec 07 30 May 6 Jun
Field deployment 16 30 Jul - 1 Oct 07 2 3 Jan - 2 Apr 08 6 Jun - 5 Sep 08
OB8.x.1 deployment 24 Sep - 9 Nov 8 Oct - 23 Nov 4 Mar - 7 Apr 25 Aug - 30 Sep29 Sep - 3 Nov

last update 14 Nov 08