Integrating Tactical Weather Sensors with Mobile Devices and the AF Weather Enterprise

ABSTRACT: Distributed Communication Systems (DCS) proposes to design and develop a solution for integrating tactical weather sensors with mobile devices for dissemination of the sensor data back to the Air Force Weather enterprise. DCS will evaluate communications methods which include military and commercial satellite communications. Wherever possible, DCS"s solution will leverage existing commercial off the shelf technologies to provide a low-cost, low-risk solution. As part of the evaluation of technologies for this solution, DCS will evaluate the use of Iridium Communications Short Burst Data (SBD) service as a communication method and technology developed for the DeLorme inReach. SBD based devices are lightweight, low-power, and have a robust communication link. DCS will also design and develop a mobile application which complies with the relevant DISA Security Requirement Guides for mobile devices. The mobile application will also make use of supplemental encryption where appropriate to ensure information security. BENEFIT: The technology developed during the proposed Phase I effort has applications to state-of-the-art for low cost supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for remote areas outside of the range of traditional communication paths.