Vice Chief Tells Air Force Staff to 'Fix the Weather'

摘要

Although the Air Force has some of the most sophisticated precision-guided weaponry ever made, it has yet to solve a key piece of the high-tech warfare puzzle: the weather forecast. Current weather data-processing systems employed in air operations centers are antiquated and, most regrettably, are not interoperable with the rest of the Air Force war planning tools, said Brig. Gen. Thomas Stickford, director of weather programs.