{"id":13192,"date":"2022-06-14T18:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2022\/06\/14\/air-force-using-ai-to-improve-weather-models-for-military-planning\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:56:29","slug":"air-force-using-ai-to-improve-weather-models-for-military-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/artificial-intelligence\/2022\/06\/14\/air-force-using-ai-to-improve-weather-models-for-military-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force using AI to improve weather models for military planning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Department of the Air Force is using artificial intelligence to augment weather predictions and better understand environmental conditions in places where the U.S. military may be headed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Biographies\/Display\/Article\/613280\/winston-a-beauchamp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deputy Chief Information Officer<\/a> Winston Beauchamp told the UiPath TOGETHER Public Sector conference on June 14 that the technology is improving forecasting abilities and providing valuable insights for planning and operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUsing AI, we\u2019ve been able to enhance our weather models to take data that we don\u2019t have ground-based sensors to collect, and extrapolate and interpolate between those data points to come up with weather predictions over parts of the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While poor weather predictions in civilian life can translate to soaked shirts or sunburns, lackluster or dated models for the military can prove far more disastrous. Weather has profound effects across domains, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctrine.af.mil\/Portals\/61\/documents\/AFDP_3-59\/3-59-AFDP-WEATHER-OPS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force documents<\/a>, and influences how, when and where actions are taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change \u2014<b> <\/b>a national security imperative, according to President Joe Biden \u2014 is a further complicating factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t always remember that weather is a really important thing in military operations, and it doesn\u2019t always use the same data that our civilian weather forecasters use,\u201d Beauchamp said. \u201cWhen planning military operations, the weather can be a huge determiner of success or failure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force in 2021 awarded Boston-based <a href=\"http:\/\/tomorrow.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tomorrow.io<\/a> a $19.3 million contract to support deployment of radar-equipped weather satellites and so-called weather intelligence. That same year, the service and Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a supercomputer forecasting system to support work done by Air Force Weather. The Department of Energy lab billed it as a platform \u201cfor some of the most advanced weather modeling in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force and Space Force are, according to Beauchamp, using AI to accelerate decision making and to better inform the decisions being made. 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