U.S. Air Force Weather Operations Update

The U.S. Air Force Director of Weather is responsible for policy, guidance, oversight, and advocacy to ensure operational capability and readiness for Air Force weather operations on behalf of the U.S. Air Force (USAF), the U.S. Space Force, the U.S. Army, and the Intelligence Community. The Air Force Director of Weather and staff serve as the Air Force's primary representative to other governmental and international agencies on all issues regarding military weather, space weather, and climate matters. This presentation highlights some of Air Force Weather's (AFW) ongoing initiatives. In support of the National Defense Strategy, the AFW Weather Enterprise Council continues implementation of the Air Force’s 2019 Weather Operations Vision to advance readiness, performance, and partnering in conjunction with other transformation initiatives. AFW is pursuing digital transformation to modernize key capabilities to ensure resilient environmental information flow and provide the military advantage to accurately predict environmental impacts optimizing mission operations across the spectrum of international engagements ranging from cooperation, to competition, and conflict. In addition to upgrading its supercomputing capabilities in partnership with Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), AFW continues its cloud architecture migration for weather and climate services. AFW encourages inter-service, interagency, and international partnering to meet its objectives through the range of capabilities in support of warfighters, planners, and decisions makers. Across air, land, and space, AFW delivers environmental decision advantage to further the security interests of the USAF, DoD, U.S. government, allies, and partners .