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  • Improved weather technology on the way to warfighters

    The Electronic Systems Center's Aerospace Management Systems Division Weather Systems Branch here is working to provide Air Force decision makers improved weather sensing and viewing capabilities. Officials within the branch are working to bring the portable Doppler radar system developed by

  • Weather techs train to support contingency operations

    Once a quarter, weather technicians with the 39th Operations Squadron here can be found training with a piece of equipment that can help save lives, prevent disastrous mishaps and some say even predict the future. This piece of equipment is called a Tactical Meteorological Observing System. The TMOS

  • Winds of change, 26th OWS upgrades

    If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change. To keep up with this demand, the 26th Operational Weather Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base has several upgrade plans in the works.The first project is the Joint Environment Toolkit, a system the Air Force Weather Agency uses to

  • Special ops weathermen enabling forces in Afghanistan

    "We're being engaged by effective small-arms and RPG fire," yelled a Special Forces team leader in his radio back to the operations center."Requesting close air support at this time," he continued.But the dark sky above, laced with the promise of an impending storm, hooded the hostile territory and

  • New contract to help improve weather forecasting

    The 651st Electronic Systems Squadron here recently awarded a contract that will change how weather information is provided to combat forces.The $21 million award to the Raytheon Company for the Joint Environmental Toolkit Increment 2 Re-vector responds to an Air Force charge to change the way

  • Two AFWA individuals honored as Air Force award winners

    To say that the Air Force communications and information, or C&I, career field is vast would be an understatement. To be more specific, C&I is comprised of more than 14 career fields and includes more than 47,600 individuals stationed at installations around the globe.So when the career field's 2009

  • JET has landed at the 412th OSS weather flight

    This month, the Joint Environmental Toolkit was approved for use here at the base weather station and its personnel have been training on the new system in anticipation of it going fully operational this summer. JET provides the weather flight with a single, fully integrated system of weather

  • OWS Airmen get taste of combat environment

    Airmen from the 15th Operational Weather Squadron here practiced their operational and combat skills April 12-18 at Scott's exercise grounds during Tempest Warrior, their semiannual field training exercise.The exercise was comprised of two, three-day rotations, with about 60 trainees and 12 trainers

  • Weather agency under new leadership

    The men and women of the Air Force Weather Agency are under new leadership following a change of command here April 20.Col. Robert L. Russell, Jr., assumed command from Col. John D. Murphy during a ceremony outside the Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman building, AFWA's headquarters."Thank you very much for

  • Air Force weather personnel keep Army flying

    "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get," is a quote attributed to Mark Twain. Task Force 38, the United States Forces - Iraq's combat aviation brigade, received its weather predictions from four Airmen in the unit's staff weather office during the unit's deployment in support of