Transforming Under Fire

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Transforming Under Fire
Col Mike Condray Commander
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Air Force Weather Agency

• Mission
• Products and Services
• Training and Equipping
• AFWA Structure
• A Look to the Future

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Our MissionA Global Team for the Global Fight
Arming our Nations forces with essential air and
space environmental intelligence, training, and
technical services to ensure battlespace
awareness and decision superiority - Anytime,
Anywhere.
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Our Supported Warriors
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Our Products and Services Terrestrial Weather
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Our Products and ServicesSpace Weather
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Our Products and Services Climatology
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Our Comm Dependency
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Our Products and ServicesGlobal Access for a
Global Team
Global Access for a Global Team
800,000 Products daily

13 Million Hits and 450 GB downloaded monthly

https//weather.afwa.af.mil
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The AFWA Structure Big Picture
FOA Commander Offutt AFB, Neb.
1388 Personnel A-Staff 286 1 WXG 617
2 WXG 455 AFCWC 30
17 GSUs AFCCC AFCWC 4 OWS 5 Solar Dets 1 Det
AFRL 5 OLs
AF Combat Weather Center Hurlburt Field, Fla.
1st Weather Gp Offutt AFB
A Staff Offutt AFB

• 2nd Weather Gp
• Offutt AFB
• (Activation
• Summer 2007)

15th OWS Scott AFB, Ill.
9th OWS Shaw AFB, S.C.
2nd WS Offutt AFB
2nd SOS Offutt AFB
25th OWS D-M AFB, Ariz.
26th OWS Barksdale AFB, La.
14th Weather Squadron Asheville,
N.C. (Redesignation Summer 2007)
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AFWAs Worldwide Team
HQ AFWA (260)
HQ 1WXG (4)
2 WXG (5) 2WS (130) 2SOS (170)
OL-K, Norman (15)
Det 3, WP (10)
OL-P, Boulder (2)
Det 2, Sag Hill (10)
San Vito (7, contract)
OL-A, Ft Meade (1)
Det 4, Holloman (6)
OL-B, Camp Springs (1)
25 OWS, D-M (159)
AFCCC (14th WS), Asheville (105)
Det 5, Palehua (10)
9 OWS, Shaw (108) OL-E (13)
15 OWS, Scott (176)
AFCWC, Hurlburt (30)
26 OWS, Barksdale (170)
Det 1, Learmonth (9)
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AFWA Structure A-Staff

• Lead Command for Air Force Weather Weapon System
• Plan, Program, and Field standard weather systems
• Lead AFW training program
• Oversee and assist MAJCOMs with AFW Stan/Eval
  program
• Manage AFW requirements process
• Manage AFW communications and info programs
• Provide manpower, organization personnel
  support
• AF Combat Weather Center (AFCWC)
• System TTP SMEs ID, test evaluate solutions
  to CWF issues

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AFWA Structure 1 WXG - Regional Reachback Ops

• Operational Weather Squadrons (OWS)
• Regional areas of responsibilities
• Eight OWSs across the AF, four assigned to 1 WXG
  (CONUS AOR)
• Ops mission and training mission
• Ops Mission provide 24/7 wx support to AF,
  Army, Guard, and Reserve forces, and Combatant
  Command forces operating at 347 installations in
  CONUS
• Training Mission provide initial and up-grade
  training for all wx career field accessions
  (enlisted and officer)

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AFWA Structure 2 WXG - Global Reachback Ops

• Production Center Collection, Analysis,
  Forecasting, Distribution
• 2nd Weather Squadron
• AFWs only real-time 24/7 SCI capability for
  NRO, NGA, NSA, DIA
• Direct, mission-tailored support to special ops
  all branches
• DoD's only real-time 24/7 space environment
  analysis/forecast capability for NORAD, Space
  Operators, HF, and GPS users
• 2nd Systems Operations Squadron
• Collect/process/disseminate meteorological and
  space weather info
• Critical node for AF Wx Reachback support to
  warfighters worldwide
• AF Combat Climatology Center (AFCCC)soon to be
  14 Weather Squadron
• DoD lead agency for applied climatology and
  weather MS

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AF Weather Enterprise 2015 OV-1Full Spectrum
Environmental Battlespace Awareness
V3.0
Hi-Res Models,Space WX, Climatology
AFWA
NIC
GIG
AFCCC
WFHQ
OWS
WX
PBA
Flight Hazards
WX
WX
JFSOCC
Decision Makers
Optical Turbulence
PBA
WX
JFC
WOC/EOC
JFLCC
JFACC
WX
WX
Planning /Execution Impacts
Surveillance /BDA Impacts
WX
Maritime Impacts
JFMCC
Airfield Impacts
BCT
WX
Corps/Div
Supported by teams of local weather personnel,
the warfighter is provided a single, accurate,
timely, relevant, actionable METOC answer from
the Virtual Joint METOC Data Base (VJMDB). The
warfighter will be able to access the portion of
the VJMDB required for any particular mission or
operation using standard, machine-to-machine web
services.
BCT
WX
WX
GroundManeuverTrafficability
TargetAcquisition Impacts
SOF
WX
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AFWA Way Ahead Transforming AF Weather
Operations

• Shifting balance from Characterizing to
  Exploiting Weather
• Leverage others to assist Characterizing the
  Environment
• Use partners (NWS, Navy, Coalition) to help
  collect data/run models
• Focus AF resources on OCONUS areas of
  responsibility, data processing, etc
• Develop/refine tactics, techniques, procedures to
  free up manpower
• Focus attention where atmospheric uncertainty is
  greatest
• Keep forecaster overwatch over data cube for
  quality assurance
• Use automated means (unaugmented sensors, new
  polar orbiting satellites, etc) to expand
  available dataincluding previously data denied
  areas
• Increase wx Integration Exploitationat
  warfighters shoulder
• OSS Weather Flight integrationfrom the base wx
  station to Sq ops
• Army supportgetting wx Battlefield Airmen at the
  Bde Cbt Tm level
• Army both expanding and transforming
• Also part of BA training pipelineadds shoot,
  move, communicate skills
• M2M integrationfocusing attention on specific
  missions/wx impacts

Entire Vision Depends on Robust
Communications/Computer Capability!
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AFWAs New Building

• 30M funded in FY06
• 188,000 square feet

• Flexible design accommodates transformational
  changes
• NOAAs Operational Computer Center System
• Ground broken on 24 March 2006
• Expected completion in October 2007
• Transition planning well underwayphased to
  minimize impact

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