Description:

Research continues to steadily increase within the Weather Enterprise, including within Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology. With much of this research focused directly on operational needs, the challenges of managing research and transitioning the results to operations remains a considerable endeavor in cost and other resources. Especially in this dawning era of “big data” and disruptive new technologies (e.g., UAS). One of the grand challenges for these enterprises is to find which meaningful research results are transition-able, and determine the ways and means to transition research results to operations and applications [R2O] using efficient and cost-effective techniques and technologies. Additionally, gathering feedback from operational aviation, range, and aerospace users and decision makers to drive additional research (O2R) is often done poorly or overlooked completely.

This session will build on previous ARAM sessions on R2O by seeking papers describing recent advances in research, technology and applications that supports the needs of operators and decision makers for the effective and efficient transition of research into sustained operations, in addition to a strong emphasis on the feedback and input framework of O2R.