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NOAA Transition: Councils

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NOAA’s Councils and Boards provide leadership and coordination across the agency for high interest/high visibility functional and strategic areas. The councils serve as a forum for developing policy and procedures, reviewing internal and external policy and technical/scientific issues, guiding Goal Team and program resources, and condensing complex issues into understandable terms and recommendations for the NEC and/or NEP. Terms of Reference and contacts for all NOAA Councils are available on the DCO website at http://www.dco.noaa.gov.

NOAA’s Boards serve to review and approve capital investment proposals as part of the budget formulation and major project review process.

NOAA Councils are the entry point for the Executive Decision Process.

Strategic Councils provide analysis and recommendations related to the NOAA functions that require multi-LO strategic leadership and guidance related to NOAA’s strategic role and policy position in areas that are underspecified, changing rapidly, or under question by external stakeholders. These councils are not decision-making bodies – they are advisory - and convene to serve the strategic decision making needs of NOAA.

Corporate Acquisition Management Councils provide NOAA-wide acquisition management oversight. These councils track NOAA’s major acquisitions to ensure that projects are executing properly in terms of technical, budget and schedule performance.

Operational Councils coordinate and manage staff or other corporate office operations that extend across Line Offices. They operate under the authority of a corporate office director (accountability resides at the corporate office level), are standing coordination bodies and do not require NOAA leadership approval to execute primary responsibilities and decisions. The oversight role entails arbitrating stalemates on council decisions, tasking councils to support specific decisional needs, and reviewing and approving council actions that have significant financial or operational implications for NOAA as a whole.