NOAA Corps Officers -
I hope your November is off to a great start. There is no shortage of activity at the Commissioned Personnel Center and here (and below) are just a few of the highlights:
Change of Command of MOC-Atlantic
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Change of Command of MOC-Pacific
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Change of Director of the Uncrewed Operations Center
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This Saturday we will be having the first Dining Out in the NCR in over three years. Many thanks for the officers that have been working hard to plan the event. Traditional events like these are part of our rich history. I also want to encourage officers to lower their stress on uniform details. As always it is important to fully commit to our uniform protocols, however, the supply chain has not made this easy. Do your best, but the important thing is that we congregate, swap stories, celebrate our Service, and break bread together. If you can’t make it to this Saturday’s event, I look forward to seeing you at a future event.
Warm Regards,
RDML Chad Cary, NOAA
Deputy Director for OMAO Operations
Deputy Director for the NOAA Corps
Acting Director, Commissioned Personnel Center
| Dec 5 - Dec 9 2022 | AOC Safety Conference |
| Dec 5 - Dec 9 2022 | Marine Operations Leadership Summit |
| 7 Dec 2022 | Officer Assignment Board |
| Dec 2022 | Aviation Advisory Board |
| Jan 2023 | OPS Working Group |
| LT Jeffrey Douglas | 13 Nov 2022 |
| CAPT Douglas MacIntyre | 01 Dec 2022 |
| LT Lydia Ames | 30 Dec 2022 |
| CAPT Michael Hopkins | 01 Jan 2023 |
| CDR Lindsay Kurelja | 01 Jan 2023 |
| LT Sean Digre | 01 Jan 2023 |
| LTJG Andie Cuiffo | 01 Jan 2023 |
| ENS Ian Searles | 20 Jan 2023 |
| CAPT Philip Hall | 01 Feb 2023 |
| CAPT Jeffrey Taylor | 01 Feb 2023 |
| CDR Olivia Hauser | 01 Feb 2023 |
BOTC 140 underway on the Coast Guard T/V Respect and NOAA FRBs. Photo Credit: LTJG Lesser |
BOTC 140 is reaching the end of their time at the Coast Guard Academy. At this point in the program their training becomes a lot more hands-on, and the students spend a lot of time on different underway platforms and training in simulators at USMRC in Middletown, RI. BOTC 140 recently spent a week in RI for RADAR class and got to meet the REFTRA class training at the same time. The students got to hear from experienced Corps Officers and make important professional connections. Last week BOTC began training on the Fast Rescue Boats and Coast Guard T-boats. In the coming weeks they will continue to focus on shiphandling, in the classroom, in simulators and underway. BOTC 140 will graduate from BOTC on November 18th, spend 5 days underway on the Pisces Nov 29-Dec 4th, and finish their training with a week of Bridge Resouerce management ending December 9th.
Students practice coming alongside the T/V with the FRBs. Photo Credit: LTJG Lesser |
OC Owen brings the FRB alongside under the guidance of instructor Rick Cuomo. Photo Credit: LTJG Lesser |
OC Doran and instructor John Kim. Photo Credit: LTJG Lesser |
CPC and the Strategic Management Division have made significant behind-the-scenes progress on updating NOAA Corps Directives. Revisions to Chapter 1 are in the final stages of review with the Department of Commerce Office of General Counsel before approval and publication. These revisions are largely clerical in nature and will not affect most officers' day-to-day lives. They focus on updating references to revised statutes, revisions for better organization and readability, and updates to reflect the current state of personnel and medical records management, These changes will also summarize the new officer candidate appointment process as authorized by the NOAA Corps Amendments Act of 2020, as prescribed in our new regulations at 15 C.F.R. Part 998, Subpart B.
A new NOAA Corps Directive chapter describing physical fitness and body composition requirements is also in the final legal review process. To review a summary of the forthcoming policy, please see SMD's August's NOAA Corps Amendments Act Newsletter on the OMAO Intranet.
CPC's payroll experts are working closely with the USCG payroll office to implement a system upgrade that will allow officers to receive the monetary portion of the NOAA Administrator's Award. Until this system upgrade is implemented, we are unable to process and pay out the monetary portion of NOAA Administrator Awards. We are actively managing this and once Direct Access is equipped to correctly process and pay the Administrator Awards, it will be announced. Please direct any questions or concerns to Katherine Raymond at katherine.raymond@noaa.gov.
CPC is pleased to announce new updates for OPF Online are coming soon, please look out for the Director's message with more information.
CPC recently relocated to the NOAA SSMC 3 building. The new location mailing address is
The addresses in NOAA Corps directives and other instructions will be updated in the near future.
As a reminder, Wednesday, November 9th marks 21 days before the end of the annual reporting period for O3s and O4s (November 30th). Rated Officers please work with Supervisors to document significant accomplishments and the administrative data required for Section 1 and page 5 of NF 56-6A.
Looking ahead, before the weekend of December 10th, Supervisors should forward their comments to Reporting Officers with the aim to have OERs sent to Reviewers by Friday, December 30th. Before January 14, 2023, Reviewers should then send the completed OER to oer.cpc@noaa.gov for validation and entry into OPFs.
If sending from a noaa.gov email account to oer.cpc@noaa.gov, Reviewers do not need to use Kiteworks encryption to send OERs.
Any questions about how to plan your OERs please reach out to oer.cpc@noaa.gov. The dates above were derived from the OER timeline instructions on page 5 of NF 56-6A.