The mission of the 557th Weather Wing is to provide a decisive warfighting edge by generating unique environmental insights that expose adversary vulnerabilities and create opportunities for the joint force.

We deliver this critical advantage to Air Force and Army warfighters, combatant commands, and national leadership. Our team provides tailored environmental intelligence and operational support around the clock, ensuring joint force commanders can anticipate and exploit battlefield conditions.

The foundation of this capability is our comprehensive environmental data enterprise. Our dedicated Airmen integrate vast amounts of global data to produce actionable intelligence, giving warfighters a complete picture of the operational environment.

To maintain this decisive edge, the wing is focused on rapid innovation. We aggressively pursue, test, and integrate next-generation technologies, ensuring our warfighters are always equipped with the most advanced environmental intelligence capabilities available.

1st Weather Group

The 1st Weather Group, comprised of six operational weather squadrons, provides timely, accurate, relevant, and actionable information advantage through environmental data in support of joint warfighters worldwide. Operational Weather Squadrons employ traditional and non-traditional means to provide information and services that maximize integration of environmental impacts into planning and execution cycles for geographic and functional combatant commands.

The professional meteorologists and weather technicians of 1 WXG continuously monitor terrestrial and space weather activity. They are responsible for producing and disseminating mission planning and execution weather analyses, forecasts, and briefings for Air Force, Space Force, Army, Guard, and Reserve forces operating around the world. Their work provides installation commanders advanced warning of severe weather to protect personnel, weapon systems, and infrastructure.

Operational Weather Squadrons are assigned a combination of areas of geographic responsibility as well as specific areas of expertise to address concerns with respect to the National Defense Strategy. Interconnectivity within the OWS network allows distribution operations across the enterprise, enhancing the Group’s survivability and lethality. Individuals within Operational Weather Squadrons are routinely requested and assigned to in-place forces to provide characterizations, threat assessments or other functions in support of directed energy weapons, hypersonic vehicles, joint integrated fires, and other emerging DoW capabilities.

Squadrons of 1st Weather Group:

2d Weather Group

The 2nd Weather Group is the Air Force's authoritative source of environmental data and information, delivering non-kinetic capabilities that provide decision advantage and create dilemmas for our adversaries across all domains—air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace.

As the Air Force's 24/7 strategic weather production capability, the group transforms raw environmental data into actionable, object-based intelligence. This information is integrated at machine speed into warfighting systems, enabling commanders to leverage the environment and win across the spectrum of conflict.

Through its five unique squadrons, the 2nd Weather Group accomplishes its primary missions:

• Data Management: Executing the Air Force's core data management mission for the weather enterprise. We make environmental data Visible, Accessible, Understandable, Linked, Trustworthy, Interoperable, and Secure (VAULTIS), enabling its conversion into integrated, object-based intelligence for automated, machine-to-machine analysis.

• Enterprise Operations: Operating and defending the Air Force’s strategic data processing enterprise, ensuring a resilient and secure data pipeline.

• Predictive Analysis: Delivering authoritative analyses and forecasts of the terrestrial, space, and climate environments to exploit opportunities, mitigate risk, and inform the joint force.

• Capability Development: Developing and fielding cutting-edge software and forecast models that deliver mission-focused intelligence at the speed of relevance.

• Operational Test: Providing operational testing for the Air Force Weather Weapon System to ensure delivery of the most capable systems to the warfighter.

Squadrons of 2d Weather Group: