A winter storm warning provides NOAA customers and partners advanced notice of a hazardous winter weather event that endangers life or property, or provides an impediment to commerce. Winter storm warnings are issued for winter weather phenomena like blizzards, ice storms, heavy sleet, and heavy snow. This performance indicator measures the advance warning lead time in hours of winter storm events. Improving the accuracy and advance warnings of winter storms enables the public to take the necessary steps to prepare for disruptive winter weather conditions.

Pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum, NTIA will modernize the current spectrum access ecosystem by: 1) Documenting current spectrum use and future requirements 2) Establishing the data and tools needed to automate spectrum management functions and securely make them as transparent and predictable as practicable 3) Updating spectrum access policies to provide greater flexibility and incentivize efficiency 4) Enhancing spectrum enforcement mechanisms 5) Pursuing workforce development initiatives that are critical to long-term success.

This performance indicator measures the dollar amount of EDA grants made to communities and regions to help build community and regional capacity for entrepreneurship and innovation.

Ensure that releases of updated software functionality, onboarding additional customer groups, and other expansions of system capabilities for these critical programs are delivered on time and on-budget.

The indicator measures the extent to which OIG prioritizes its audit resources to address the most serious management and performance challenges facing the Department. It is computed by dividing the number of audits and evaluations initiated during the fiscal year that address the issues published each October in OIG's Top Management Challenges report by the total number initiated.

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

This measure highlights change in jobs that communities or businesses generate or save due to Sea Grant assistance (i.e., providing information to help communities, industries or businesses expand, make better decisions or avoid mistakes). Sea Grant provides the information and training that informs business decisions, and in some cases firms create or sustain jobs as a result. A job created is a new position created and filled as a result of Sea Grant activities. An existing position that is filled with a Sea Grant-trained applicant should not be reported in this measure. A job sustained is an existing, filled position that is sustained as a direct result of Sea Grant activities. A job cannot be reported as both created and sustained in the same year.

NOAA and NMFS support research to advance commercial-scale marine aquaculture production. This is done through commercial scale demonstration facilities in collaboration with—and co-funded by— industry and coastal seafood communities to facilitate the commercial viability of marine aquaculture production. Additionally, NOAA will use aquaculture research to remove production bottlenecks for shellfish and finfish related to siting, disease, genetics and genomics, hatchery seed stock, and feed availability. Performance is measured by calculating the number of either unique or completed stages in ongoing projects which directly advance marine aquaculture production.