The U.S. Air Force awarded Utah-based Haight Bey & Associates a $35.8 million contract for AN/TMQ automated tactical weather stations.
This contract announcement confirms that the U.S. military will extend the use of the AN/TMQ-53 Tactical Meteorological Observing System (TMOS) until at least 2027.
The TMQ-53 is a vital instrument used ion the weather data collection process. It is a portable, automated weather station that can take collect weather data including wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, cloud height, precipitation and lightning.  |
| Troops prepare a weather data-collection instrument in the field (Photo Courtesy Senior Airman Justyn Freeman). |
The data it produces can be used by weather observers in the field or by the Air Force Weather community using satellite communications.
It can make observations in intervals up to one minute, enabling safer and more efficient military flight operations around the world.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements, the U.S. Aerospace Management Systems Division in Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts awarded Haight Bey the firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to refurbish the TMOS.
The contract provides parts, spares, repairs, obsolescence management, engineering change proposals and special projects in support of the TMQ-53 system.
Work on the logistics support contract Haight Bey won will be conducted in West Haven, Utah, and is expected to be complete in July 2027.
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