{"id":1280,"date":"2011-08-03T17:37:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2011-08-03T17:37:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:37:59","slug":"nsslcimms-phased-array-radar-team-awarded-doc-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2011\/08\/nsslcimms-phased-array-radar-team-awarded-doc-gold-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"NSSL\/CIMMS phased array radar team awarded DOC Gold Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1282\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2011\/08\/nsslcimms-phased-array-radar-team-awarded-doc-gold-medal\/doc-gold\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1282\" title=\"doc-gold\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2011\/08\/doc-gold.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a>The Secretary of Commerce has awarded a Gold Medal to the NSSL\/CIMMS Radar Research and Development Division for \u201cscientific and engineering excellence in adapting military phased array radar technology to improve U.S. weather radar capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NSSL has led the unique federal, private, state and academic partnership to develop and evaluate phased array radar technology since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Phased array radar has strong potential to provide revolutionary improvements in NOAA National Weather Service tornado, severe storm and flash flood warning lead times and accuracy, reducing false alarms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Gold Medal Award from DOC signifies a huge accomplishment for the NSSL\/CIMMS RRDD group led by Doug Forsyth.\u00a0 They are very worthy of this high level of recognition of their accomplishments,\u201d said NSSL Director Steve Koch.<\/p>\n<p>This is NSSL\u2019s fourth Gold Medal Award and is the highest honorary award granted by the Secretary of Commerce.\u00a0 A Gold Medal is defined as distinguished performance characterized by extraordinary, notable, or prestigious contributions that impact the mission of the Department and\/or one or more operating units, which reflects favorably on the Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of Commerce has awarded a Gold Medal to the NSSL\/CIMMS Radar Research and Development Division for \u201cscientific and engineering excellence in adapting military phased array radar technology to improve U.S. weather radar capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[63,101,182,226,305,336,370,418],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-cimms","tag-doc-gold-medal","tag-hot-items","tag-issue-julyaugust-2011","tag-mpar","tag-nssl","tag-par","tag-rrdd"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}