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was spent in the business management and senior management of the Mission
to Planet Earth and the Earth Science Program Office. I served as the

Program Business Manager in the Earth Science Program Office and was
responsible for the business and programmatic development and launch of
many Earth Science satellites from the late 90s through 2015, which included
the Landsat satellites. The yearly budget for these missions, from pre-

development through the operations of the spacecraft, was in the hundreds of
millions of dollars. My involvement included providing business
management advice to the senior-level management teams in the Earth

Science arena. These satellites provide our Nation with information on a daily
basis used in monitoring changes in the Earth’s environment as well as
forecasting the weather.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

I am James Campbell and I was a meteorologist for the National Weather
Service for 32 years. During my career I held a variety of positions, including
forecaster, lead forecaster, Warnings Preparedness Meteorologist, Emergency
Warnings Meteorologist at Weather Service Headquarters in Silver Spring,

Maryland, Meteorologist in Charge of the Minneapolis Forecast Office, and
Deputy Regional Director of the NWS’s Western Region.

The NWS has a very important public mission to provide forecasts and
warnings for the protection of life and property. In addition, forecasts and
other information are used to assist in making economic decisions. I spent

much of my career developing and carrying out programs that helped save
lives.

Some of my highlights included issuing tornado warnings, severe
thunderstorm warnings and flash flood warnings, which prompted our citizens
to take lifesaving protective actions. I trained spotters from all walks of life to
recognize severe weather and report the information to NWS offices. I worked

with local media and occasionally national media to teach about the dangers of
severe weather and how to protect yourself. I developed coordinated policies
for hurricane and local storms programs. I served on a team that developed

hurricane probabilities for use by local managers and industries to help them
make decisions on whether to evacuate coastal areas as a hurricane approached

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