Feature Highlights

Rapidly deployable sensor suites with stand-alone capability: Surface Sensors, Upper Air System, Meteorological Satellites, & Doppler RADAR

Production: Mesoscale NOWCAST Model, Forecaster’s Tool Kit, & Tactical Decision Aids

FORCEnet compliant or capable

Up-armored for Force Protection

Ruggedized for Survivability

 

Smiths Detection is a recognized leader in the design, development, manufacture, and field support of integrated meteorological systems for military applications. The Meteorological Mobile Facility (Revised) Next Generation (METMF(R) NEXGEN) offers the U.S. Marine Corps an expeditionary, operationally relevant, affordable system.

The METMF(R) NEXGEN provides tactical meteorological support to the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) with continuous meteorological observations, satellite imagery, and forecasts.

Concept
The METMF(R) NEXGEN is a mobile system that will provide tactical meteorological support to the Marine Air Ground Task Force. This system will replace the legacy METMF(R) with current and emerging state-of-the-art technologies offering a smaller overall size and increased mobility. These advancements will significantly enhance the meteorological capabilities of the Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces.

“Smiths Detection has four decades of experience providing state of the art meteorological equipment for the military both in the US and overseas,” said Stephen Phipson, Group Managing Director of Smiths Detection “Our experience of integrating systems and working with associated technologies will enable us to provide the Marines with a considerably improved, technically advanced system”

The METMF(R) NEXGEN uses a mesoscale meteorological model to assimilate data from a variety of sources to provide the best meteorological data to the user (via a forecaster tool kit) in a timely fashion. The system ingests meteorological data from both ground-based sensors and satellites

Contract
The initial award from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command is for the design, development and delivery of a prototype system, with an option for a second system.

Related Products
In addition to METMF(R) NEXGEN, Smiths Detection is currently supplying the U.S. Army with a next-generation upper atmospheric measuring system, the Meteorological Measuring Set-Profiler, which is used to increase the accuracy of field artillery. Smiths Detection has provided more than 100 earlier-generation artillery meteorological systems to the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. National Guard.