NMAO Fleet and Charter Forms

Aircraft, Ship and Charter Forms

The purpose of the aircraft and ship time request forms is to provide OMAO and the NOAA Fleet Council with the information necessary to schedule the projects the ships and aircraft will support, and which aircraft or ship would best meet the requirements of a specific project.

The NOAA Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) process begins building platform requirements for the planning year three years in advance of the execution year. Formal platform requests should be submitted to the Program Managers prior to the Program Baseline Assessment process each April on the appropriate form (list follows below) with copies submitted to Line Office Fleet Working Group Representatives. Once the requester completes the form and submits it to the Program, the Program Managers validate and prioritize the requirements from an overall NOAA Strategic Plan and Program Outcome perspective. The Program Managers then provide an overview of requests to the Goal Teams for prioritization within the Mission Goal. As additional information becomes available, or as conditions warrant, an updated form specifying the change shall be submitted to keep the Fleet Services Sub Goal Lead, OMAO and the Fleet Council advised of all pertinent facts.

When all Goal Teams have completed a validation and prioritization process, Goal Team Leads will work with the Fleet Council to prioritize platform requirements between Goals for Programming. At the conclusion of the Program Baseline Assessment process in June, platform requirements have been captured and copies of the individual platform request forms are provided to the Fleet Services Sub Goal Lead and OMAO for reference and allocation planning. Current platform requirements, requirements gaps determined from the Goal Team prioritization process, and alternatives to meet the gaps are then presented in the Fleet Services Program Baseline Assessment in July. At the completion of the Programming year, Fleet Working Group meetings, convened by OMAO, with representatives from all line offices (NOS, OAR, NMFS, NWS & NESDIS) are held to develop draft allocation plans using the prioritized platform requirements provided in the Planning phase for the Planning Year.

Any questions regarding this procedure can be addressed to the Chief, Program Services and Outsourcing Division at (301)713-1045.

Individual project elements ("piggybacks") may be requested on the forms or requested on a previously planned and approved cruise or aircraft schedule. Those projects requiring vessel time should be coordinated through the Chief Scientist of the cruise(s) involved and be fully described in the Project Instructions. Projects requiring flight time should be coordinated through the Principal Investigator and Aircraft Operations Center.

All the forms are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and can be filled in on line and then printed, but they cannot be saved and submitted electronically without the full version of Adobe Acrobat.

If you do not have Acrobat Reader, please go to Adobe's web site to download Acrobat Reader.

PLATFORM

Aircraft Time Requests: NOAA Form 56-48
Instructions for NOAA Form 56-48

Charter Aircraft Report: (Commercial Aviation Services Report): NOAA Form 56-56

Ship Time Requests: NOAA Form 77-65 (instructions begin on page 3)

Charter Vessel Clearance and Report:

Monthy Ship and Aircraft Charter Report (this is an Excel file, you need to save the file to your computer to work on it) These are to be filled out and e-mailed on or near the third day of the following month to CharterReport.OMAO@noaa.gov by anyone in NOAA chartering a ship or aircraft.

Flow diagram of aircraft support request process:

A publication of Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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