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55th Wing Public Affairs
109 Washington Square, Suite 221
Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. 68113
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Com'l: (402) 294-3663
DSN: 271-3663
E-mail: 557WW.PA.PublicAffairs@us.af.mil

2nd Weather Group

The 2nd Weather Group delivers timely, relevant and specialized terrestrial, space and climatological environmental intelligence to joint forces, defense agencies, DoD decision-maker, and allied and coalition partners worldwide for planning and execution of missions across the range of military operations. The group operates, sustains, maintains and monitors the wing’s $303M strategic high-performance computing complex, production network and applications and provides DoD’s only space weather operations center, climate monitoring and prediction capability and environmental data for live, virtual and Constructive modeling and simulation. The 2nd WXG exploits leading edge weather forecasting models and provides fielded weather systems experts for operational testing, deployment training and deployed maintenance on tactical weather systems.  The 2nd WXG comprise six primary subordinate units:  2nd Systems Operations Squadron, 2nd Weather Squadron, 16th Weather Squadron and Detachment 1, 2nd WXG are located at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.  The 2nd Combat Weather Systems Squadron is located at Hurlburt Field, Florida and the 14th Weather Squadron in Asheville, North Carolina. In addition, there are four solar observatories that fall under 2nd WXG at Learmonth, Australia; Sagamore Hill, Massachusetts; Holloman AFB, New Mexico and Kaena Point, Hawaii.

2nd Weather Squadron

The 2nd Weather Squadron continuously supports Joint warfighters and Department of Defense decision-makers, including the intelligence community and space operators with accurate, relevant, timely and specialized global terrestrial and space observations, analyses, forecasts and alerts.

2nd WS, AFN Weather Center
2nd WS, Radio Solar Telescope Network
2nd WS, Solar Observing Optical Network
2nd WS, Space Weather Flight
2nd WS, Weather Intelligence Flight

2d Systems Operations Squadron

The 2d Systems Operations Squadron delivers reliable and timely global environmental intelligence products and services for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests through the 24 x 7 operation, sustainment and maintenance of Air Force Weather's strategic center computer complex, production network, and applications.

2d Combat Weather Systems Squadron

The 2d Combat Weather Systems Squadron maintains nine different Air Force specialties working in unison to provide deployed weather equipment maintenance in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Horn of Africa, Just-In-Time-Training for deployers and test & evaluation support for new Air Force weather systems.

14th Weather Squadron

The 14th Weather Squadron collects, protects, and exploits authoritative climate data to optimize military and intelligence operations and planning in order to maximize the combat effectiveness of Department of Defense personnel and weapons systems.

16th Weather Squadron

The 16th Weather Squadron is the center of excellence for development, implementation, and visualization of terrestrial, atmospheric and space weather models, displaying observational and model data, and identifying environmental impacts on future weapons systems.