WMES is used to carry out the Corps' water management mission, which assures project safety and carries out the regulation of congressionally authorized purposes as outlined in legislation referenced in project documents (see the Reference Section for links to ER 1110-2-240 and ER 1110-2-249).
WMES is a system that is designed with enterprise standards and whose base infrastructure is built and managed by the enterprise to perform the USACE water management mission. WMES supports:
Enterprise/National Water Management assets located at the USACE processing centers, such as:
Public and internal water management data dissemination
Enterprise/national data exchange services that ingest data from satellite feeds as well as data from other federal agencies (e.g., NOAA, USGS), and state and local water agencies and stakeholders
A "Network-Only WM System" that allows an office to perform their water management data processing and forecasting over the WAN on processing center systems
An enterprise/national Continuity of Operations (COOP) for each water management office
District/Division "Full-Service Water Management Systems"
Those offices with a full-service system are supported on enterprise standard hardware known as the "Water Management Stack" that is managed by the enterprise IT service provider. The Water Management Stack assures these systems are COOPed to processing centers. The design of the WM Stack and the purchase of servers (T7's) were accomplished with AIS funds. Other parts of the WM Stack were, in general, purchased with district funds.
The computing platform for the CWMS AIS
The figure below shows the WMES system boundary. Highlighted in yellow under "Core WMES" is where the CWMS software resides.
