Abstract

Weather Effects Situational Awareness Support for Command and Control
Track: Defense and Intelligence
Author(s): Robert Farrell, Jeremy Loomis

Weather significantly impacts a variety of Air Force operations such as dynamic strike, intelligence collection, sensor performance, and UAV missions. Converting forecasted 'data' like winds, rain, and clouds into 'information' like munitions lock-on range, fuel consumption, and sensor cloud-free line of sight is not trivial. For situational awareness displays to incorporate these impacts, Command, Control, and Intelligence (C2I) developers require toolkit functionality that can incorporate weather analysis and help with operational risk management. The Air Force Research Laboratory is developing a scalable, component-based, integration-ready, service-oriented, and government-owned solution that can be transitioned into C2I programs having weather advice incorporation requirements. CJMTK will be used to support the visualization, analysis, and spatial data management functions. This presentation will provide an overview of weather and its impacts to military operations, followed by a review of the toolkit that is being developed and how it will provide an easy-to-incorporate solution for C2I developers.

Robert Farrell
Air Force Research Laboratory
525 Brooks Road
AFRL/RISA
Rome , New York 13441
United States
Phone: 315-330-3050
E-mail: Robert.Farrell@rl.af.mil

Jeremy Loomis
ProLogic, Inc.
1000 Green River Drive
Suite 201
Fairmont , West Virginia 26554
United States
Phone: 304-333-2680
E-mail: jloomis@prologic-inc.com