Weather Service
Abstract
This budget activity funds operational development necessary to acquire, sustain, and enhance segments of the Air Force Weather Weapon System (AFWWS). Activities also include studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution and future program planning. Program Management Administration costs include Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and Advisory and Assistance Service. AFWWS provides timely, accurate, consistent and relevant space and atmospheric (a.k.a. terrestrial) weather information for global battlespace situational awareness. AFWWS supports worldwide operations of Air Force and Army warfighters, Special Operation Forces, and other government agencies with weather observing and forecasting capabilities at in-garrison, and deployed locations as well as centralized, reach-back capabilities. AFWWS activities align under four capability areas: Weather Data Collection, Weather Data Analysis and Dissemination, Weather Forecasting, and Product Tailoring/Warfighter Applications. This alignment ensures an integrated and systems-oriented approach to program management decisions. Weather Data Collection provides automated atmospheric and space environmental sensing capabilities at fixed and deployed locations worldwide. Projects include Next Generation Radar (WSR-88D) and Upper Air Observing Follow-On. FY16 funding will enhance system technical performance based upon state-of-the-art signal processor technology for enhanced discrimination of precipitation types, severe weather detection, and rainfall amount estimations and will continue operationalizing new upper air sounding capability that uses laser technology. Weather Data Analysis and Dissemination provides a net-centric infrastructure that assimilates worldwide sources of atmospheric and space weather data and produces decision-quality information for warfighters. Improved analysis of real-time weather information supports DoD's Warfighting and Enterprise Information Environment Mission Areas as well as DoD's role in transformation of the National Airspace System through the Next Generation Air Transportation System and enhances Air Force energy security plans. In FY16 Air Force Weather-Web Services (AFW-WEBS) moved into this capability area from Weather Forecasting to better align its function of integration of net-centric capabilities. FY16 funding will continue development of incremental software enhancements and integration of (1) improved analysis capabilities, including processing of data from new environmental sensing satellite sources and (2) Open Geospatial Consortium services, comprised of Web Map Services (WMS), Web Coverage Services (WCS), and Web Feature Services (WFS); which provide more impact-based information and are tailored towards specific missions/use cases. Weather Forecasting provides advanced scientific numerical weather prediction capabilities for automated, high resolution forecast products for mission execution, rehearsal, and planning. Weather Forecasting includes projects for Numerical Weather Modeling; Weather Services - Live, Virtual, Constructive (WS-LVC, formerly Environmental Data Cube System Support), and the Space Weather Analysis and Forecast System. FY16 funding will continue development of software to integrate advanced atmospheric and space weather forecast capabilities to improve models for warfighter operations. Additionally, Weather Forecasting capabilities will be expanded to both integrate and exploit data from new environmental sensing satellite sources and expanded weather products/services for Live, Virtual, and Constructive events for DoD Modeling and Simulation (M&S) users within Data Center 14866. Product Tailoring/Warfighter Applications provide timely, local, and regional target-scale weather information to operational commanders for a given Area of Responsibility and at tactical levels they provide front-line weather information to warfighters, including weather forces, conducting combat operations. This supports the 'train as you fight' concept by assuring fixed and deployable systems have an equivalent operator look and feel. No FY16 funding is requested. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development, because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 672738_0305111F_7_3600_PB_2016
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