The Problem This Solution Solves
The Department of Defense (DoD) sought commercial data solutions for global weather sensing via ground, air, and space-based platforms to improve global environmental situational awareness and analysis, improve performance of global and regional weather physics-based models, and improve performance of global machine learning-based models. The commercial data was utilized in weather forecasting and impact applications, to include climate assessment. Priority was with commercial solutions that provide data from outside the Continental United States.
The Solution
NextGen Federal Systems, Inc provided a solution called MEDIA which would curate commercial data and instantiate into Air Force Weather Machine Learning Platform (WxMLP) for data analytics Machine Learning training. This prototype was a Machine Learning-based forecast product engine for turbulence, icing, contrail formation, and cloud detection instantiated into the Air Force Weather Machine Learning Platform.