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Development Efforts

Clarus Transition

MADIS is currently being transitioned from Initial Operating Capability (IOC) to Final Operating Capability (FOC) at the National Weather Service (NWS). At FOC MADIS operational and integration test systems will be hosted at the NWS's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and NOAA’s Web Operations Center (WOC) with archive capabilities provided by the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Clarus is a research and development initiative to demonstrate and evaluate the value of “Anytime, Anywhere Road Weather Information” provided by both public agencies and the private weather enterprise to transportation users and operators. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and NWS agreed that MADIS should become the operational home for Clarus. The objective of the Clarus Transition effort is to incorporate Clarus system functionality into the MADIS system so that Clarus transportation users and operators don't lose the Clarus capabilities they have grown to rely on to help with transportation decision support issues.

To help ensure a smooth transition from Clarus to MADIS, Clarus providers will need to work with the MADIS and Clarus teams on the transition of:

  • Ingest of RWIS data and metadata.
  • Verification of MADIS displays of RWIS data and metadata.
  • Subscription services for data and metadata.
The MADIS team is defined as follows:
  • NWS’ Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services (OCWWS) responsible for MADIS requirements.
  • NWS’ Office of Science and Technology (OST) responsible for MADIS transition to operations.
  • NWS’ NCEP responsible for MADIS operations and operational support.
  • OAR’s GSD responsible for MADIS development, maintenance, transition, and operational support.
  • NESDIS' NCDC responsible for MADIS archive capabilities.
The Clarus team is defined as follows:
  • FHWA, Road Weather Management Team for Clarus requirements.
  • RITA, ITS Joint Program Office for Clarus requirements.
  • Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., under contract to FHWA, for development, maintenance, transition, operations, and operational support.
  • Mixon Hill, Inc., under contract to FHWA, for development, maintenance, transition, operations, and operational support.

The Clarus transition effort will consists of three major enhancements to MADIS:

Enhancements to MADISDelivery Date
June 15, 2013
December 31, 2013
December 31, 2014
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