unclassified - Air Force Financial Management & Comptroller

BUDGET ITEM JUSTIFICATION (EXHIBIT P-40)
UNCLASSIFIED
DATE:
FEBRUARY 2002
APPROP CODE/BA:
OPAF/ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
P-1 NOMENCLATURE:
WEATHER OBSERVATION/FORECAST
Description (continued):
2. WEATHER FORECASTING: Provides strategic, operational, and tactical level weather forecasting models and the computational
capability needed to support worldwide military operations of the Air Force, Army, Special Operations Forces, and other government agencies.
Hardware upgrades and replacements provide streamlined computer and communications architectures at forecast centers, ensuring weather
system interoperability with Department of Defense (DoD) standard communications and command, control, communications, computers and
intelligence (C4I) systems. Components include:
a. GLOBAL THEATER WEATHER ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION SYSTEM (GTWAPS): No FY03 funding is requested.
b. SPACE WEATHER ANALYSIS AND FORECAST SYSTEM (SWAFS): No FY03 funding is requested.
3. PRODUCT TAILORING/WARFIGHTER APPLICATIONS: Provides operational weather support to warfighters at the theater and tactical
levels. At the theater level, Operational Weather Squadrons (OWSs) provide timely, focused, fine-scale weather products and services to
support operational commanders within a given Area of Responsibility. At the tactical level, Combat Weather Teams (CWTs) [formerly named
Weather Flight/Detachments (WF/Dets)] provide front-line weather information to AF and Army warfighters in direct support of combat
operations. CWTs operate at both in-garrison and deployed locations. FY01-03 funding procures integrated computer hardware and software
suites and associated communications interfaces for operational weather support at fixed and deployed AF and Army locations in the
Continental United States and overseas.
4. WEATHER DATA ANALYSIS: Implements AFW Reengineering at the strategic level. AFW Strategic Centers provide global-scale
atmospheric data and forecast and analysis products required by regional OWSs and CWTs for AF and Army customers worldwide. Other
customers for global products include DoD and Department of Commerce agencies and national programs. FY01 funding purchased
engineering management services to produce systems specification technical documentation. This documentation is necessary to support
development of the Technical Requirements Document and the Request for Proposal. FY02 funding procures computer hardware for
unclassified and classified environments, enterprise database and data management software, and upgrades to the internal communications
network to support modernization of the AFWA strategic center communications and data infrastructure. FY03 funding will procure computer
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