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DoD Plans New Programs Of Record To Help Fill Weather Observing Gaps

Pat Host

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016

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DoD Plans New Programs Of Record To Help Fill Weather Observing Gaps

The Defense Department may start as many as five new programs of record to address five space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM), or weather observing, gaps, the Air Force said Tuesday in a report to Congress.DoD has determined three of the gaps--ocean surface vector winds (OSVW), tropical cyclone intensity (TCI) and energetic charged particles (ECP)--require programs of record, also known as materiel solutions. The Air Force will use the Weather Satellite Follow-On (WSF) program of record to address these three gaps. The…

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