Meteorological Monitoring System ENSCO, Inc., Springfield Virginia

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Meteorological Monitoring SystemENSCO, Inc.,
Springfield Virginia
Innovation The Meteorological Monitoring System
(MMS) provides real-time acquisition of weather
data and automated detection of hazardous weather
conditions. The system reduces risk by
providing support for any weather sensitive
operation through hazard detection and alerting.

• Accomplishments
• Used for operational support of manned and
  unmanned space launches at the Kennedy Space
  Center and Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida.
• First operational prototype on the Eastern
  Range in January, 1993. Development of
  follow- on system for the Eastern Range began in
  February, 1996. Delivery and testing of system
  completed in June 1997 followed by full
  operational certification in August, 1997.
  Second development follow-on started in
  September, 1997.
• SBIR Phase I completed in 1990. SBIR Phase II
  awarded in June, 1991. Follow-on funding added
  to Phase II contract in June, 1993. NASA SBIR
  Phase III contract awarded in February 1996 for
  upgrade and certification of system under the
  title Meteorological And Range Safety Support
  (MARSS) system. Phase III follow-on funding
  added in September 1997 to provide additional
  functionality including a 3-dimensional mesoscale
  prognostic model, enhanced toxic diffusion
  analysis and additional data sources.
• Cumulative private capital investment by the
  firm to date exceeds 25,000.
• System featured at Power Industry Computer
  Applications (PICA) 97 in Columbus, Ohio.
  Technical paper presented at PowerGen
  International 97 in Dallas, Texas.

MMS Display Screen

• Government/Science Applications
• The system has been marketed as the
  Meteorological And Range Safety Support system.
  Primary market targets include U.S. and foreign
  test ranges. Actual markets for this system and
  it predecessor have been limited to the U.S.
  Eastern and Western ranges.
• The next delivery of this system to NASA and the
  USAF will include enhanced data acquisition,
  mesoscale modeling and hazard prediction.
• Actual uses of this system include range safety
  support and weather forecasting support.
  Potential uses include munitions testing and
  meteorological threat assessment.
• USG interest has included the U.S. Western Range
  and one additional test range.
• NASA SBIR Phase I - 50,000, Phase II, 610,000,
  Phase III initial amount 940,000 and subsequent
  follow on providing an additional 520,000.

• Commercialization
• The system is being marketed under the title
  Meteorological Monitoring System. The current
  primary commercial market target is the power
  industry. ENSCO has had significant interest
  from companies in the power industry and has
  featured this system at industry conferences.
  This development project supports 2-4 full time
  personnel.
• The MMS provides functionality that exceeds other
  comparable products. It supports a wide variety
  of input data and provides capabilities beyond a
  simple display system. The monitoring function
  alerts when user defined criteria have been
  violated by a current weather condition. This
  reduces the risk of damage or injury as a result
  of hazardous weather.

Points of Contact - NASA John Madura,
867-2666 - ENSCO Allan Dianic, 783-9735 x
207 E-mail/website allend_at_fl.ensco.com /
www.ensco.com 1989 SBIR Phase II
NAS10-11795
Kennedy Space Center Date of Update
9-15-98 Success Story 10-006