In 2016, NOAA had 11,100 nonseasonal, full-time, permanent employees. NOAA proposed a fiscal 2017 budget of $5.85 billion.4
• Oversees the National Ocean Service, which delivers science-based tools and services to understand, make predictions about and protect America’s coasts, Great Lakes and ocean waters, and to sustain healthy and resilient economies, communities and ecosystems
• Oversees the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, which manages, operates and maintains the nation’s largest civil fleet of research and survey ships, and aircraft, as well as the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, the seventh uniformed service of the United States
• Oversees the National Marine Fisheries Service, to protect and preserve the United States’ living marine resources and habitats in the world’s largest exclusive economic zone, through scientific research, fisheries management, law enforcement and habitat conservation
• Oversees the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, which observes the Earth, sun, oceans and atmosphere with the geostationary operational environmental satellites for short-range warning and forecasting and polar-orbiting operational environmental satellites for longer-term forecasting
• Oversees the National Weather Service, which provides weather, water and climate forecasts, and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas
• Oversees the Office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research, which strengthens the science that is the foundation of all NOAA products and services, and hosts a network of research laboratories, grant programs and cooperative institutes with academia
• Works closely with the Council on Environmental Quality, the Coast Guard, the Navy, the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of the Interior, the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Science and Technology5