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Appendix A: Performance and Resource Tables

 

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3.2

Enhance the conservation and management of coastal and marine resources to meet America’s economic, social, and environmental needs

OBJECTIVE 3.2 RESOURCES
(Dollars in Millions)
  FY 1999
Actual		 FY 2000
Actual		 FY 2001
Actual		 FY 2002
Actual		 FY 2003
Actual		 FY 2004
Actual		 FY 2005
Actual		 FY 2006
Actual
Total Funding $842.2 $978.1 $1,640 $1,584.1 $1,576.5 $1,461.3 $1,554.5 $1,758.0
FTE – Full-Time Equivalent 4,673 4,040 4,783 3,984 4,365 4,327 4,228 4,444

PERFORMANCE GOAL: Protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management (NOAA)

PERFORMANCE GOAL RESOURCES
(Dollars in Millions)
  FY 1999
Actual		 FY 2000
Actual		 FY 2001
Actual		 FY 2002
Actual		 FY 2003
Actual		 FY 2004
Actual		 FY 2005
Actual		 FY 2006
Actual
Total Funding $744.7 $873.6 $1,504 $1,334.2 $1,314.9 $1,268.5 $1,379.5 $1,559.3
FTE – Full-Time Equivalent 3,795 3,233 3,913 3,042 3,361 3,611 3,479 3,670

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Number of overfished major stocks of fish
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 411 42
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Red (Did not meet target) 42
FY 2004 Green (Met target) 422
FY 2003 Green (Met target) 423
FY 2002 Red (Did not meet target) 45
FY 2001   New—no target to measure against
1 Estimate. Final actual will be available by December 31, 2006. (back)
2 Actual revised from 43 to 42 due to restatement of FY 2003 actual. (back)
3 The baseline was reduced from 46 stocks to 44 due to one stock having mistakenly been listed as overfished in 2000 and two other stocks being merged into one. This reduction is in addition to the previous reduction caused by 10 pacific salmon stocks being listed as endangered and therefore removed from the fishery management regime. This number had been reported erroneously as 43 in the FY 2004 PAR and 44 in the FY 2006 APP. The procedures that led to these errors have been overhauled. (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Number of major stocks with an “unknown” stock status
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 711 712
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Green (Met target) 743
FY 2004 Green (Met target) 774
FY 2003 Green (Met target) 94
FY 2002 Green (Met target) 88
FY 2001   New—no target to measure against
1 This is the 3rd quarter number as of June 30, 2006. The final actual as of September 30, 2006 will be available by December 31, 2006. (back)
2 This is an update of the FY 2005 target of 70 that appeared in the FY 2007 APP as a result of the revision of the FY 2005 actual from 73 to 74. It represents the same 3 stock reduction in the number of stocks of unknown status. (back)
3 This is an update of the estimate for FY 2005 of 73 that appeared in the FY 2005 PAR. The increase was due to unanticipated reversions of stocks from known to unknown status. (back)
4 The FY 2004 actual reflects technical changes in the way stocks are reported that reduced the baseline by 10 stocks. (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Number of protected species designated as threatened, endangered, or depleted with stable or increasing population levels
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 24 24
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005   New—no target to measure against

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Number of stocks of protected species with adequate population assessments
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 601 59
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005   New—no target to measure against
1 Estimate. Final actual will be available by December 31, 2006. (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Number of habitat acres restored (annual/cumulative)1
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Blue (Exceeded target) 7,598 / 32,514 4,500 / 29,416
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Blue (Exceeded target) 8,333 / 24,916
FY 2004 Blue (Exceeded target) 5,563 / 16,583
FY 2003 Blue (Exceeded target) 5,200 / 11,020
FY 2002   New—no target to measure against
1 Determination of whether target was met or exceeded is based on annual amount since that is what was done in that year (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Cumulative number of coastal, marine, and Great Lakes issue-based forecasting capabilities developed and used for management
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 31 31
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005   New—no target to measure against

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Annual number of coastal, marine, and Great Lakes ecological characterizations that meet management needs
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 62 53
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005   New—no target to measure against

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Annual number of coastal, marine, and Great Lakes habitat acres acquired or designated for long-term protection
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Blue (Exceeded target) >86M1 200,137
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005   New—no target to measure against
1 The large FY 2006 actual reflects the new Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument. (back)

 

PERFORMANCE GOAL: Support the nation’s commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation (NOAA)

PERFORMANCE GOAL RESOURCES
(Dollars in Millions)
  FY 1999
Actual		 FY 2000
Actual		 FY 2001
Actual		 FY 2002
Actual1 		FY 2003
Actual1 		FY 2004
Actual1 		FY 2005
Actual		 FY 2006
Actual
Total Funding $97.5 $104.5 $136 $249.9 $261.6 $192.8 $175 $198.7
FTE – Full-Time Equivalent 878 807 870 942 1,004 716 749 774
1 In the FY 2004 PAR, the 2002-2004 amounts for the mission support goal were distributed among the four goals. In this PAR, the 2002-2004 mission support levels were separated out resulting in lower 2002-2004 levels than as reported in the FY 2004 PAR for the other four goals. (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Reduce the hydrographic survey backlog within navigationally significant areas (square nautical miles surveyed per year)1
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 2,851 2,500
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Green (Met target) 3,079
FY 2004 Red (Did not meet target) 2,070
FY 2003 Red (Did not meet target) 1,762
FY 2002   1,514
FY 2001   2,963
FY 2000   1,557
1 Prior to FY 2003, NOAA’s targets were in the form of percent reduction, not miles. NOAA changed this methodology in FY 2003, but had actual data (shown here) back to FY 2000. (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Percentage of U.S. counties rated as fully enabled or substantially enabled with accurate positioning capacity
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 43.25 39
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Green (Met target) 32.2
FY 2004   New—no target to measure against

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Accuracy (%) of forecasts of ceiling and visibility (aviation forecasts)1
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Red (Did not meet target) 43%2 47%
Performance was not met, because:
Past experience has shown NOAA’s ceiling and visibility percentage tends to be negatively impacted when instrument flight rules (IFR) occurrences average less than 200,000 hours a year. The baseline began in 2002, since that time FYs 2002-2004 and FY 2006 have all suffered less than normal IFR occurrences, with normal about 200,000 hours. Decreases as little as seven to 15 percent from the 200,000 average, have all contributed to lower percentage scores. NOAA also knows that its forecasts are heavily linked to guidance. For example, over the past three years NOAA has maintained about a 35 percent improvement over model output statistics (MOS) guidance. This year guidance accuracy was down about seven percent from last year, equating to about a .02-.03 downward direction for NOAA’s percentage.
Strategies for Improvement:
The following projects are aimed at enhancing forecast performance all year:
OCWWS and the aviation focal points have increased emphasis on individual verification statistics through Stats-on-Demand. This is leading to increased enrollment in the program as forecasters begin to track their individual verification numbers, and work with the local focal points to assess the information.
OCWWS will continue working with the Regional Aviation Meteorologists (RAMs) to encourage offices to actively improve their local programs and forward their ideas to the regions, which in turn helps the RAMs assess their region’s performance.
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Green (Met target) 46%
FY 2004 Yellow (Slightly below target) 45%
FY 2003 Green (Met target) 48%
FY 2002 Red (Did not meet target) 13%
FY 2001 Red (Did not meet target) 18%
FY 2000 Red (Did not meet target) 15%
FY 1999   New—no target to measure against
1 From FY 1999 - FY 2002, a different method was used to calculate accuracy and FAR—targets were significantly lower than current method. (back)
2 Projected. Actuals through August 2006. (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: False alarm rate (FAR) (%) of ceiling and visibility (aviation forecasts)1
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 64%2 65%
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Green (Met target) 63%
FY 2004 Green (Met target) 65%
FY 2003 Green (Met target) 64%
FY 2002 Green (Met target) 58%
FY 2001 Green (Met target) 51%
FY 2000 Red (Did not meet target) 53%
FY 1999   New—no target to measure
1 From FY 1999 - FY 2002, a different method was used to calculate accuracy and FAR—targets were significantly lower than current method. (back)
2 Projected. Actuals through August 2006. (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Marine wind speed accuracy (%)1
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Red (Did not meet target) 55%2 58%
Performance was not met, because:
Marine wind speed forecast scores naturally vary (accuracy +/- four percent per year) due to fluctuations in the number of extreme events measured over NWS marine areas per year. The higher the number of extreme events, the greater opportunity a forecaster has to increase forecast performance/accuracy. Conversely a high number of extreme events also increases the risk a forecaster has to decrease forecast performance/accuracy.

Strategies for Improvement:

  1. Marine Models: Expand use of local mesoscale models such as Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model and local versions of WRF to all marine WFOs.
  2. Marine Observations:
    1. Targeted marine observations, expansion of NWLON, PORTS, and NDBC observations that fill in significant data gaps.
    2. Display of high resolution satellite derived wind vectors.
  3. AWIPS: Enhance System on AWIPS for Forecasting and Evaluation of Seas and Lakes (SAFESEAS) to provide a prediction capability tool for marine forecasters.
  4. Marine Weather Training: Continue development of a series of wind and wave modules.
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Green (Met target) 57%
FY 2004 Green (Met target) 57%
FY 2003 Green (Met target) 57%
FY 2002 Green (Met target) 53%
FY 2001 Yellow (Slightly below target) 52%
FY 2000 Green (Met target) 51%
FY 1999   New—no target to measure
1 From FY 1999 - FY 2002, this was combined with Marine Wave Height accuracy. (back)
2 Projected. Actuals through August 2006. (back)

NOAA PERFORMANCE MEASURE
MEASURE: Marine wave height accuracy (%)1
Year Status Actual Target
FY 2006 Green (Met target) 70%2 68%
Year Status Historical Results
FY 2005 Green (Met target) 67%
FY 2004 Red (Did not meet target) 67%
FY 2003 Green (Met target) 71%
FY 2002   New—no target to measure
1 From FY 1999 - FY 2002, this was combined with “Marine wind speed accuracy.“ (back)
2 Projected. Actuals through August 2006. (back)

 

MISSION SUPPORT GOAL: Provide critical support for NOAA’s mission (NOAA)1

PERFORMANCE GOAL RESOURCES
(Dollars in Millions)
  FY 1999
Actual		 FY 2000
Actual		 FY 2001
Actual		 FY 2002
Actual		 FY 2003
Actual		 FY 2004
Actual		 FY 2005
Actual		 FY 2006
Actual
Total Funding       $313.5 $250.5 $1,217.6 $1,354.5 $1,584.0
FTE – Full-Time Equivalent       1,716 1,996 2,178 2,437 2,880

 

1 There are no GPRA measures for the Mission Suppot goal since the activities of this goal support the outcomes of the four other NOAA goals. (back)
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