The company develops and sustains DoD tactical decision aids
solutions that successfully and
effectively integrate products
for military and civilian decision
makers. This includes longstanding support to C2 systems,
such as the Global Command and
Control System-Joint, Distributed Common Ground SystemArmy, Joint Surveillance and
Target Attack Radar System and
the Airborne Warning and Control System. Northrop Grumman
is leveraging this expertise to
bring proven SOA and net-centric
solutions to the FAA and NextGen
communities. Northrop Grumman
continues operational and
development support of weather
services for the DoD, and other
agency needs. Northrop
Grumman supports and maintains systems at AFWA’s 14th
Weather Squadron for climatological analysis, modeling and
simulation scenarios critical
to U.S. intelligence community
needs.
actionable information. This
decision support information will
be made available using netcentric services to assist planners and decision makers as they
consider climate adaptation and
mitigation strategies.
Climate Knowledge
Northrop Grumman supports the
FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)
vision with systems engineering
expertise applied to surveillance
radar and wind shear detection,
terminal automation, infrastructure, weather and radar processing, and aviation weather
research. We are transferring our
DoD expertise and experience in
delivering operational weather
systems to partner with the FAA
to solve NextGen challenges.
Northrop Grumman is working to
bridge the communication gap
between climate science, decision makers, and other users.
We provide climate change data,
modeled climate change projections, and impact assessments
with uncertainty quantification
tailored to user needs through a
decision support framework that
transforms petabytes of data
into ‘bite size chunks’ of user
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Visualization and
Geographically Distributed
Collaboration
Northrop Grumman integrates
human factors engineering with
geographic information system
technology to transform data
into visualized information for
situational awareness, allowing
collaboration among decisionmakers, wherever they may be.
This is critical to the successful
management of air traffic, integrated with optimized weather
information, across the entire
National Airspace System (NAS).
Nextgen Weather Program
and Common Support
Services – Weather
(CSS-Wx)
Northrop Grumman’s decades
of operational weather system
experience and multi-disciplinary
approach to integrating weather
systems are especially critical for
successfully integrating optimized weather information into
air traffic management systems
to effectively reduce weather
impacts across the entire NAS.
For more information, please
contact:
Northrop Grumman
Information Systems
Joe Marshall
3200 Samson Way
Bellevue, NE 68123
402-682-5866
Joseph.Marshall@ngc.com
Advanced
Climate,
Meteorological
and Space
Weather
Solutions for
Defense and Civil
Communities
exploitation) to challenging problems. Working in partnership
with our customers, we transform complex ideas into reliable
systems to rapidly provide
actionable information to Warfighters and decision makers.
Northrop Grumman’s
capabilities span all METOC
processes:
• Sensing technology
• Analysis and prediction
• Mission tailoring
• Integration
• Visualization
• Geographically distributed
collaboration
Sensing Technology
A world leader from “beneath
the earth’s surface to the sun”
environmental sensing, Northrop
Grumman has extensive experience in developing, integrating
and sustaining critical defense
and civilian ground- and satellitebased sensors and systems.
These include the Defense
Meteorological Satellite System
and the Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS).
N
orthrop Grumman is the
nation’s leading developer and integrator of
environmental sensing systems.
We are building on decades of
innovation and expertise, to
shape the global environmental
observing systems of the future.
Northrop Grumman applies technologies within the Meteorological and oceanographic (METOC)
community, that sense, collect,
analyze and integrate distributed
environmental data, solving the
toughest environmental challenges for our customers. From
enhancing operational situational
awareness and battle-space predictability, to processing satellite
observations, including erupting
volcanoes and wildfires, Northrop
Grumman solutions protect lives,
resources, and property, while
helping customers gain a
better understanding of the
environment.
Northrop Grumman is a premier
provider of command and control (C2), meteorology, sensor
technologies and platforms, and
decision support tools. Our environmental professionals are experienced in all facets of METOC
and C2 integration processes
and apply expert knowledge of
science, systems, spacecraft,
manned and unmanned aircraft,
sensors, and data (collection,
ingestion, distribution and
Northrop Grumman delivered
the inaugural FMH-1 standard
algorithms for all federal surface weather observations. The
company developed, integrated
and commissioned the Automated Surface Observing System
(ASOS) for the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) and the
National Weather Service (NWS)
and certifies its key automated
weather sensors.
Northrop Grumman understands
user needs and their exacting
demands for improved space,
atmospheric, and oceanic sensing. The company is working to
integrate conventional sources
with future systems to better
manage the data explosion from
the next generation of environmental satellites, such as DoD
Weather and the Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellite R, as well as unmanned
vehicles and future combat
systems. This includes leveraging Global Hawk’s capabilities
to measure atmospheric temperatures, movement, particles,
aerosols and moisture, improving
climate and weather forecasting
for diverse mission needs,
including homeland security.
Analysis and Prediction
Northrop Grumman leads engineering and sustainment services for major technological components of the Air Force Weather
Agency (AFWA). The company
develops and implements space
weather applications for the
Space Weather Analysis and
Forecast System (SWAFS).
Northrop Grumman assists in
creating products that successfully analyze and predict space
weather and its impact on military and aviation operations. As
prime contractor, the company
assisted AFWA in implementing
the real-time global ionospheric
model for the Department of
Defense (DoD) and continues to
update and implement improvements to the model. Additionally,
the company is at the heart of
developing and upgrading satellite data ingest and analysis
capabilities at AFWA, processing meteorological data from
U.S. and international satellites
and making this data available
to government users, worldwide,
for daily operations and mission
support.
We delivered the DoD’s operational Mesoscale Model Version 5 (MM5) implementation
at AFWA, as part of the Global
Theater Weather Analysis and
Prediction System, In support of
terrestrial weather analysis and
prediction, Numerical Weather
Prediction modeling support
has continued with the Weather
Research and Forecast model
upgrade beginning in 2006 and
continues today with the integration of new ensemble forecast
modeling techniques.
Mission Tailoring
Northrop Grumman is a world
leader in translating METOC data
and products for warfighters and
decision makers. The company
assists the Air Force and the
DoD in transforming METOC
data into tactical decision aids.
Partnering with AFWA, Northrop
Grumman transformed the Joint
Air Force and Army Weather
Information Network to the
modern web services based Air
Force Weather Web Services
(AFW-WEBS). Northrop Grumman
Integrated Meteorological System was similarly transitioned
to SOA-based METOC services
supporting the US Army tactical
forces in contingencies around
the globe for many years.
Integration
Northrop Grumman is firmly
committed to fully integrating
weather information into decision cycles, at the appropriate
levels of command, through our
net-centric, services-oriented
architecture (SOA) design.