end of July but there are a lot of roadblock in getting the restoration done. Commercial
Power is out in the area and could take as long as a year to be restored, the generator is
currently running to keep the electronics of the radar powered.
The road leading to the site has been partially washed away and they will need to bring
in heavy equipment to replace the radar. The tower and the radar have to be replaced
and the nearest staging area is an hour and a half away. So, the July date is very
optimistic.
Using the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar as an interim fix. The Radar Operations
Center in Norman, Okla., identified a scan pattern from the TDWR that can be
processed through the Weather and Radar Processor at ZSU and then displayed on
Micro E-ARTS. The plan is to run tests at Harris and then if the system passes the team
will deploy and do suitability tests at ZSU in early March.
NEXTGEN Weather Processor (NWP) and Common Support Services-WX (CSS-WX)
Both programs have had some technical issues and have pushed some of the products
and development out in the design plan. CSS-WX has started to enter testing at Harris.
Factory Acceptance Testing is scheduled for early March with a partial release of the
software with a follow-on patch planned for testing prior to deploying to the key sites this
summer at ZTL, ZLC, and ZOA. The system will only feed model data to air traffic
system until NWP deploys a year later as NWP will process the radar mosaics for ERAM,
Micro-EARTS, and ATOP.
Raytheon is in the middle of developing the Aviation Weather Display (AWD) and a
contract mode was finally signed to allow them to go back and redesign some of the
display that the user group asked to be changed and once that work is done another full
user team meeting will be held. The program is looking at ways to allow the team more
access to the system by using the test system at the Technical Center. The plan is to
have the test system on the most current release as Raytheon continues to build the
