This report records the results of the investigators' review of weather support management within the U. S. Army, both recently and briefly over the past 50 years. In its essence, the report, abbreviated at the Army's request, describes a long-term absence of a positive weather culture that has engendered a failure to use weather data and forecasts as helpful information, a force multiplier, a weapon. while STC investigators identified pockets ...
This report documents STC's efforts to investigate, confirm, and validate Critical Weather Values and their impact rules resident in Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid (IWEDA) software in development by the U. S. Army. STC reviewed 493 rules provided by the Army Research Laboratory at White Sands Missile Range from a previous STC report. Using current Army publications and Subject Matter Experts, the STC team was able to validate, adjust, or ...
This report reflects the transition of research and development efforts from the former Battlefield Environmental Effects Modules (BEEM) software to Environmental Decision Support Methodologies (EDSM) and Climate Environment Modules (CLEM), as well as work efforts conducted toward the completion of a number of civil works projects whose implemented concepts have current and future applicability in military environment and terrain applications. It is highly recommended that the reader be familiar with ...