NOS Strategic Plan 2024-2028: Now Live!

Announcing the NOS Strategic Plan: 2024 - 2028!

Hello All,

I am excited to share with you the release of the new National Ocean Service (NOS) Strategic Plan. This plan charts a future course as NOS continues to play a critical role in filling important needs for our national and coastal communities, including the climate crisis, declining ecosystems, and the ever-expanding need for authoritative environmental information. 

We developed our plan by utilizing an all-hands-on-deck approach through engagement with our workforce, partners, stakeholders, and the public and aligning with the Department of Commerce and NOAA strategic plans.

Within this plan, we have laid out our strategies, objectives, and outcomes within four priority areas: 

 

• Increase Coastal Resilience in the U.S. NOS will improve our ability to meet our mission across timescales, enhance predictive capabilities, and focus on place-based partnerships and the unique needs of individual communities by expanding the use of NOAA’s Service Delivery Framework.

• Make Equity Central to Our Mission. NOS will amplify our external-facing efforts to equitably develop and provide our data, products, and services and will look internally to build and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization accessible to all.

• Accelerate Growth of the Ocean Enterprise and the Blue Economy. NOS will enable businesses, governments, academia, and other organizations to use the vast collection of available ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes data and information to deliver innovative, value-added products and services to support the Blue Economy.

• Conserve, Restore, and Connect Healthy Coastal and Marine Ecosystems. NOS will apply our scientific understanding, resource management, and foundational observations to mitigate stressors, enhance degraded ecosystems, restore ecosystems and the benefits they provide, increase accessibility to historically underserved communities, and provide products and services that facilitate sustainable and equitable use.

 

Implementation of our strategic plan will allow our work to have a greater impact in response to our nation’s growing need for ocean and coastal products and services and leverage and connect the broad expertise across our program offices.

Thank you for your continued support. 

View the full plan here. 

Sincerely, 

Nicole