TRW wins $119 million USAF weather systems contract.TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TRW) has been awarded a systems engineering, management and sustainment services contract, potentially worth $119 million, from the Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt Air Force Base Offutt Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 1,907 acres (772 hectares), E Neb., S of Omaha; est. 1896 as Fort Crook, an army base. Converted to an airbase in the early 1900s and renamed in 1924, it is the headquarters of the Strategic Command, the successor to , Neb. The new contract will help the agency provide a more complete weather picture--from earth to space. AFWA AFWA Air Force Weather Agency AFWA Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (Washington, DC) AFWA Asthma Foundation of Western Australia AFWA Australian Federation for the Welfare of Animals supplies weather services and products worldwide. For the next five years, TRW will serve as prime contractor providing systems engineering, management and sustainment (SEMS SEMS Standardized Emergency Management System SEMS Screw and Washer Assemblies SEMS Student Emergency Medical Services (various universities) SEMS Support Enforcement Management System ) services to consolidate Air Force Weather system contracts to reduce the costs of maintaining individual weather systems. The contract also calls for TRW to modernize and enhance existing systems to enable AFWA to improve mission support. "On today's modern battlefield, information dominance provides our nation's forces the winning edge. Continuous, complete, current and secure weather information is a critical component of the information needed by the warfighter to ensure victory," said Dr. Donald C. Winter, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TRW Systems, the Reston-based TRW business serving as prime contractor. Work on the program is expected to begin in September in Omaha, Neb. The modernization effort also benefits DoD civilians A Federal civilian employee of the Department of Defense directly hired and paid from appropriated or nonappropriated funds, under permanent or temporary appointment. Specifically excluded are contractors and foreign host nationals as well as third country civilians. and National Intelligence Community civilian agencies, by providing improved tropical cyclone tropical cyclone Severe atmospheric disturbance in tropical oceans. Tropical cyclones have very low atmospheric pressures in the calm, clear centre (the eye) of a circular structure of rain, cloud, and very high winds. direction and intensity tracking, analyses of high-level winds, and severe storm aircraft alerts. "TRW will help the Air Force Weather Agency maintain its role as the operator's top choice for aerospace weather information," said Al Ronn, TRW's AFWA SEMS program manager in Omaha, Neb. "TRW has helped build and integrate vital weather systems used today. Our familiarity with these systems combined with our prime integration experience will provide the Air Force the knowledge and technology needed to `anticipate and exploit the weather for battle.'" Under related contracts in its growing weather business, TRW integrates high-resolution weather analyses, forecast models, and space weather applications into AFWA production systems and deploys regional weather forecast systems for worldwide support to battlefield theaters. With headquarters in Omaha, Neb., AFWA runs the strategic center for weather for the Air Force and supplies all weather-related information to the Air Force, Army and many civilian agencies. AFWA derives information from satellites and other sources and analyzes it to provide predictions used by DoD, government agencies, and military units in the field. |
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