The Electronic System Center’s Weather Systems Division has awarded a $9 million contract modification to Raytheon to implement Phase II of the Joint Environment Toolkit—a single, next-generation weather system that will integrate and possibly replace multiple Air Force weather weapon system components. The current systems that are slated to be integrated or replaced by JET include the Operational Weather Squadron Production System Phase II, the New-Tactical Forecast System, the Army Integrated Meteorological System weather toolkit, and the Joint Weather Impacts System.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
