Weather Information Distribution Services (WIDS) Branch
The Weather Information Distribution Services branch is responsible for managing and overseeing the development and implementation of select National Weather Service products and services ensuring the efficient delivery of the National Weather Service’s weather, water, and climate data and information. The Branch is responsible for integrating and planning of new dissemination requirements-driven technologies for performance enhancement and cost-effectiveness. The Branch coordinates and prioritize IT application requirements, obtains feedback and conducts analyses with federal, state and local agencies, internal NWS regional centers and field offices and external partners. The Branch establishes standards allowing for consistent dissemination formats and protocols across NOAA data and products and creates policy governing web and geographic information system services, participates in WMO activities, coordinates with other NWS portfolios if there are policy changes needed to address or if the work cross-cuts across Program, Project, and Activities. The Branch provides communities, businesses, and governments weather information by methods that are most needed.
