The open-source push is all about cutting development time and costs for the agency. "If we use open source, we can come up with some new, neat applications and reduce our development costs," Chambers says.
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Weather Service finds proof is in the concept
The Advanced Communications Network Model simulation tool wasn't the National Weather Service's first attempt at modeling its network. The federal agency had tried it before, but the modeling techniques and tools it had tested were too new at the time, so the initiatives failed. "There was also a shortage of in-house expertise then," says Randy Chambers, operational manager of the NWS' Network Control Facility, or NCF.
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