1. Advances and Issues WIDA 2012 Dr Andreas Goroch LCDR Keith Everett

2. BACIMO March 2013 Las Cruces, NM WIDA 2014 AF

3. Advances What has been accomplished – Transition of illumination segment to SOA – Two experiment started and in final planning stage Porquerolles Is. France SMARTEX Mobile Bay, USCG/NATO Advances in EOSTAR, NEON, and TAWS AREPS re-funded – Improved coupling of numerical weather predictions to operational needs, e.g. AREPS – Boundary layer modeling improvements in stable thermal conditions

4. Workshop Accomplishments Information exchange – DOD Illumination Service is operational and everyone knows it – New city illumination model – Global Hawk “no kidding” users – Predator “no kidding” users

5. Workshop Issues Funding – Navy gone to zero – Air Force going to zero – Only solution is Call on our users (direct military applicability shown to sponsors) Collaborate, Collaborate, COLLABORATE!

6. Other Issues BACIMO Battlefield Atmosphere- Cloud Impact on Military Operations – Rename meeting Sponsorship and scheduling of BACIMO(?) and WIDA – Current plan is alternate years (DoD travel limits) and no formal sponsor

7. And, Finally Great thanks to: – Participants and invitees – Desert Research Institute – LCDR Keith Everett Great preliminary organization Very well run meeting Thank you very much