We are at the intersection of the previous satellite program, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, which operated from 1994 to 2010.
It's been fabulous support from this committee for JPSS, and we are extremely pleased at the conference report.
Thank you. Can I just make one point?
I’ve been a long supporter of the Integrated Ocean Observing System, introducing authorizing legislation in each of the last four Congresses...
I appreciate that.
Thank you. Just a follow-up on that question.
Thank you. Ms. Glackin, I wish you well. On your three decades of service to this country, thank you.
I wanted to ask you, Dr. Neilley, so it's not our imagination that we're experiencing extreme weather events?
What should be the underlying assumption for the budget, then?
Just to clarify the issue of the short-term and the long-term data gap, does it depend... on the question of funding only?
There was a strong partnership between NOAA and the Coast Guard during the Deep Water Horizon oil spill.