2020-2026
Research Vision and Plans
The NOAA Science Council is the corporate body responsible for developing and maintaining NOAA’s R&D strategic planning documents. Links to current and past planning documents and related material are available below.
Research Plans
The NOAA Research and Development Vision Areas: 2020-2026 is available in a downloadable PDF. The Vision characterizes the priorities and guidance for NOAA’s R&D activities for the next seven years. The Vision provides a common understanding among NOAA’s leadership, its workforce, its partners, constituents, and Congress on the value of NOAA’s R&D activities.
NOAA 20-Year Research Vision
NOAA developed its 20-Year Research Vision in 2005 following on a review and recommendations from our Science Advisory Board. The document describes the vision of NOAA at the forefront of informing decision-makers and is available for download in a PDF format.
Questions
Please contact the Science Council Executive Secretariat at oar.rc.execsec@noaa.gov with any questions regarding the NOAA R&D strategic plans or 20-Year Vision.
Related Links
Strategic Research Guidance Memorandum
As a science-based agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) depends on a robust research and development (R&D) enterprise. NOAA’s R&D is responsive to a wide range of mission drivers creating a need for clear portfolio logic to optimize and defend the Agency’s R&D investment.
NOAA’s R&D is responsive to a wide range of mission drivers creating a need for clear portfolio logic to optimize and defend the Agency’s R&D investment. The Strategic Research Guidance Memorandum provides, for the first time, the portfolio logic by which NOAA’s R&D enterprise can be continually reviewed, evaluated and rebalanced in light of the Agency’s evolving mission needs.
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