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John L. "Jack" Hayes is the NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and National Weather Service Director. In this role, he is responsible for the day-to-day civilian weather operations of 122 local Weather Forecast Offices, 13 River Forecast Centers, 9 National Centers for Environmental Prediction, and 21 Aviation Weather Service Units in the United States, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam.
The National Weather Service (NWS) provides daily weather forecasts and warnings to the American media, emergency managers, fire land managers, commercial weather partners, and the general public for weather and natural hazards such as hurricanes, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, flash floods, winter storms, extreme fire weather conditions, tsunamis, and solar flares.
Dr. Hayes rejoined the National Weather Service after serving as the director of the World Weather Watch Department at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations located in Geneva, Switzerland. In that position, he was responsible for the global observing, global telecommunications, and global data processing and forecasting systems that provide the foundation for operational weather forecasting and warning services for 188 WMO member countries worldwide. During this period, he led the development of the WMO Strategic Plan which was approved by WMO's 15th Congress in May 2007.
Before joining the WMO, he served in several senior executive positions at NOAA. As the deputy assistant administrator for NOAA Research, he was responsible for the management of research programs. As Deputy Assistant Administrator of the National Ocean Service (NOS), he was the chief operating officer dealing with a multitude of ocean and coastal challenges, including NOS's response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster in August 2005. As Director of Office of Science and Technology for the NWS, he was responsible for the infusion of new science and technology essential to weather service operations; he was recognized as one of the Federal Government's Top 100 IT Executives for his leadership of programs to improve information processing and dissemination supporting NWS's weather forecast and warning mission.
Dr. Hayes was also an executive in the private sector and the military. He was general manager of the $500 million Automated Weather Interactive Processing System program at Litton-PRC from 1998 through 2000. AWIPS is the interactive computer system utilized by all weather service forecasters. From 1970 through 1998, he held a variety of meteorological positions with the United States Air Force, beginning as a weather forecast officer in 1970 and culminating his career as Commander of the Air Force Weather Agency and Air Force Global Weather Center.
He received both his Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in meteorology from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He is a Fellow in the American Meteorological Society.
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