Personnel and Resources
AFWA manning consists of more than 1,400 active-duty, reserve, civilian and contract personnel and is headquartered on Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. AFWA executes a $175 million annual budget. Weather forecasts are produced using numerical weather prediction software such as the WRF model and the Unified Model, operating on supercomputers.
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