Air Force eyes modeling software to understand how wind farms create radar dead spots

摘要

Peterson afb, Colo-U.S. Air Force re-searchers are asking a Pennsylvania computer simulation company to design modeling software to help radar systems designers compensate for the dead spots that renewable energy wind farms cause in military air-defense radar, commercial air traffic control radar, and weather radar. Officials of the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., have announced their intention to award a sole-source contract to Analytical Graphics Inc.