AF WEATHER REENGINEERING
OPTIMIZE WARFIGHTER SUPPORT
REGIONAL WEATHER SQUADRONS (OWS) FORECAST FOR ALL AOs
ELIMINATE REDUNDANT TASKS
LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY
- OWS PUSH DATABASES AND PRODUCTS
- DEPLOYED WEATHER TEAMS (CWTs) PULL VIA NIPRNET/SIPRNET
FREE CWT TO FOCUS ON CUSTOMER
Notes:
“The OWS will use strategic level and indigenous products and data bases and apply principles of meteorology over their Area of Responsibility (AOR) to produce fine-scale, highly accurate weather forecast products, digital data fields, and services to satisfy the requirements of the customers operating within the OWS's geographical AOR.” (SOURCE: AFW CONOPS, section 2.2)
“WF/Dets will evaluate and apply OWS forecasts to specific missions, weapons systems, strategies, tactics, and applications, deploy with operators/warfighters, and provide direct, tailored customer support.”
“They will be the weather liaison between their customer and the forecasting resources developed by production centers. WF/Dets will be tactical mission/operations specialists, experts in the art of applying weather to the customer's mission.”
(SOURCE: AFW CONOPS, section 2.4)
NOTE: There are not enough CWTs to directly support every battlefield customer. The IMETS system and Army ABCS technology makes up the difference in the reengineering CONOPS.