Synthetic Weather Environment Injection

OUSD (R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Advanced Computing and Software OBJECTIVE: Tailored synthetic weather is required for the purposes of DoD exercises, training, and simulation. As examples, weapon systems Program Offices require synthetic weather to support Digital Engineering to help obtain required performance in the natural operations environment. Also, most live, virtual, and/or constructive military training and exercises require tailored synthetic weather to provide forces and systems the opportunity consider the impacts of the environment in planning and executing mission. Weapon system flight and mission planning systems also have needs for synthetic weather injects. Current AF Weather systems cannot produce or process this synthetic weather. DESCRIPTION: Tailored synthetic weather is required for the purposes of DoD exercises, training, and simulation. As examples, weapon systems Program Offices require synthetic weather to support Digital Engineering to help obtain required performance in the natural operations environment. Also, most live, virtual, and/or constructive military training and exercises require tailored synthetic weather to provide forces and systems the opportunity consider the impacts of the environment in planning and executing mission. Weapon system flight and mission planning systems also have needs for synthetic weather injects. Current AF Weather systems cannot produce or process this synthetic weather. PHASE I: Develop a conceptual design for a tool that can generate synthetic weather data and propose means to inject synthetic weather. Identify DoD applications that could utilize synthetic weather to support training, exercises, and/or simulations. Deliverables include a report or presentation demonstrating the conceptual design and a path forward for Phase II. PHASE II: Develop and demonstrate a proof-of-concept Synthetic Data Generation & Injection prototype system based on the preliminary design from Phase I. PHASE III DUAL USE APPLICATIONS: Demonstrate the prototype system delivering synthetic weather data to a set if customers utilizing simulations and virtual exercises. Upon successfully supporting external customers, lay out plan to operationalize the prototype. REFERENCES: 1. AIR FORCE AGENCY FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION (AFAMS): https://www.afams.af.mil/; 2. AF Weather Web Services: https://weather.af.mil/ KEYWORDS: synthetic weather; Modeling; Simulation; M&S; Live; Virtual; Constructive; LVC; Digital engineering; environment; exercises; training; numerical; prediction; forecast; data; generation