SF Weather Services Research
Abstract
This budget activity funds the operational development necessary to acquire, sustain, and modernize SF Weather Services Research capabilities in support of the 2022 National Defense Strategy's (NDS) three lines of effort: build a more lethal force, strengthen alliances and attract new partners, and change the way we do business. To improve readiness for a more lethal force, SF Weather Services Research provides timely, accurate, resilient, and relevant environmental information to enable global battlespace situational awareness for Air Force (AF), Army, Special Operations Forces (SOF), Space Force (USSF), combatant commands, the Intelligence Community (IC), and other government agencies. SF Weather Services Research provides climate impacts and assessments, as well as space and terrestrial weather sensing, forecasting, and weather analytic capabilities, at home station and deployed, in order to deliver critical environmental intelligence in support of warfighters to gain the asymmetric advantage during the full spectrum of air and space combat operations. SF Weather Services Research decreases the risk to mission and risk to force by increasing the lethality, effectiveness, and survivability of Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems. To strengthen alliances and partnerships, SF Weather Services Research development efforts integrate DoD, government agency, commercial, and international partner environmental data with AFWS information system equipment for processing, storing, exploiting, and disseminating multi-domain weather information for analysis, forecasting, mission integration, and greater interoperability. To ensure greater performance and affordability for the Department of the AF, SF Weather Services Research sensors and information systems are being modernized through improvements to architecture and system efficiency, cybersecurity, joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) and sensing grid integration, migration to cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) initiatives, and expanding agile software development, delivery, and integration practices. The AF Weather Enterprise digital transformation and cloud migration effort modernizes key capabilities providing the military advantage to accurately predict environmental impacts optimizing mission planning, targeting, weaponeering, mission execution, battle damage assessment, and space systems operations. Space acquisition must respond with speed and agility to emerging adversary threats. Space Systems Center (SSC) has transformed the organization and implementation of space acquisition to an enterprise approach, to increase innovation and resiliency, leveraging international, commercial, and mission partnerships, and managing program/project priorities according to an integrated unclassified/classified enterprise space architecture. Expanding the appropriate acquisition authorities and contract mechanisms to deliver capability sooner, SSC will strategically execute experimentation, prototyping, risk reduction, and other efforts to develop new or repurpose existing capabilities. Activities include research and analysis to support current program planning. Management Service costs include Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) and Advisory and Assistance Service (A&AS).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 67A018_1203940SF_7_3620F_PB_2024
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