Fly – Fight – Win

Headquarters U.S. Air Force

Friends & Partners of Aviation Weather

Fly - Fight - Win

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

Fly - Fight - Win

Global Information Grid (GIG) Core Enterprise Services (CES)

Other Community of Interest (COI)

Enterprise Services

Command/ControlSystems

Virtual DoD Data Base: Comprised of Strategic,

Force, & Unit Level METOC DBs Located at Worldwide

DoD Nodes

DoD Wx Data & Knowledge

Integrated Into WarfighterDecisions & Applications

DoDEnterprise Services

Machine to Machine

WebServices(JMBL)

DoDAccess Points

METOCMETOC

GIG

AFW Target Net-Centric Architecture

DoD Warfighter Weather Support Architecture …

leverage for NextGen

Fly - Fight - Win

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