Some 98% of all Presidentially declared disasters are weather-related, leading to around 500 deaths per year and nearly $15 billion in damage. The StormReady program helps empower America's communities with the communication and safety skills needed to save lives and property--before, during, and after the event. In order to determine how many of our StormReady communities are serving socially vulnerable populations and businesses, we'll use the top quartile for the CDC's Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) of 0.75-1.0 overlaid with how many StormReady communities are located in those areas. The target number in FY22 will serve as our current baseline and any increase in target number in FY23 will directly correlate to our planned increase of 75 StormReady communities.

NTIA will award grant funds for the purposes of broadband planning, deployment, and digital equity (adoption and use) programs to a multitude of entities, including (but not limited to) States/Territories,tribal governments and organizations, minority serving institutions (MSIs), non-profits.

Supporting new research initiatives and the commercialization of research is another category of activity that support economic development. This indicator demonstrate what grantee organizations are doing to support their clients’ research activities either by connecting them to university partners, or by supporting their research as it moves into commercialization and patenting.

Ensuring that data products are released on schedule is essential.

Proposed new indicator for FY 2022. Measure is under development.

The NWS Partnership Strategy aims to improve the overall NWS partnership experience, enhance and develop new ways of leveraging and using partnership capabilities to help realize the NWS vision for a Weather-Ready Nation and understand the landscape of NWS partnerships and develop a clear strategic vision of which key partnerships we are looking to enhance or develop. To that end, the NWS will convene at least 3 national-level stakeholder/partner meetings to help meet the goals of the NWS Partnership strategy.

This KPI looks into the Patents service level on satisfaction from customers seeking assistance as a pro se applicant when filing a patent application. This is in line with OMB A-11 Sec. 280 HISP requirements.