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Friends & Partners of Aviation Weather. AF Weather. DoD participating in NextGen AF designated Lead Service in Dec 07 Standing up a Joint Program Office Signed the JPDO MOU in May – last signatory DoD net-centric ops well ahead of other agencies Not planning to create new NextGen programs
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AF Weather • DoD participating in NextGen • AF designated Lead Service in Dec 07 • Standing up a Joint Program Office • Signed the JPDO MOU in May – last signatory • DoD net-centric ops well ahead of other agencies • Not planning to create new NextGen programs • Will leverage DoD technology and experience for NextGen • Lead Service Office All Hands meeting on 7 July • Working DoD coordination on NextGen
METOC AFWTarget Net-Centric Architecture Other Community of Interest (COI) Enterprise Services DoD Enterprise Services Command/Control Systems Machine to Machine Web Services (JMBL) GIG DoD Access Points Global Information Grid (GIG) Core Enterprise Services (CES) DoD Wx Data & Knowledge Integrated Into Warfighter Decisions & Applications Virtual DoD Data Base: Comprised of Strategic, Force, & Unit Level METOC DBs Located at Worldwide DoD Nodes DoD Warfighter Weather Support Architecture … leverage for NextGen
AF Weather • DoD moving toward net-centric ops for several years now • Focus on providing accurate, reliable, mission-tailored weather for decision-makers to bombs on target • DoD weather NextGen participation ahead of other offices • While DoD weather is not identifying NextGen programs, we are providing sweat equity with key people involved in the JPDO Weather Working Group • Sharing our Joint METOC Brokering Language (JMBL) - working with NWS to make it an effective standard • Will share our integration experiences and lessons learned • Will share any pertinent R&D from military labs and hope to leverage NextGen R&D efforts to benefit DoD ops