The NOAA National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration is acquiring UAS or Unmanned Aerials Systems to monitor the weather to bring better data and collect information about our atmosphere, environment and storms. Why is NOAA using UAS to monitor the weather? Because they can use this to better alert and protect the American People from severe storms and bring better data to understand climate issues.

There is a new team at NOAA, which is a group of cutting edge practitioners in all the sub-sectors of unmanned aerial vehicles and is closely working with NASA to bring us the ultimate information. This will indeed protect the American People with better storm tracking data to alert those in harms way.

These new systems will have 1800 mile range, 30 hours of flight time and be rugged enough to survive extreme or hostile airflows. They will be equipped with state-of-the-art electronics and weather survelliance technologies and be able to run autonomously, tele-robotically and GPS guided. They will also maintain LSO Satellite links and UHF communications to the ground.

These systems will be able to communicate with satellites, mobile ground units, base stations and other robotic aerial systems and feed constant information. This information will in turn be fed to other agencies and super computers for storm tracking, forecasting and rapid response teams in case of crisis. This is only one of the things that the NOAA is doing today to protect and secure the American People. Consider all this in 2006.