Wyoming King Air as a National Facility

怀俄明大学（UW）将维护和操作一架空中国王飞机，作为NSF的国家设施。自1987年以来，华盛顿大学一直将国王航空作为国家科学基金会的设施运营。在此合作协议期间，在资金到位之前，华盛顿大学还将运营和维护怀俄明州云雷达（WCR），作为“空中之王”（KA）研究飞机系统的一部分。联合KA/WCR系统将极大地扩展该设施的科学能力。在上一次合作协议的执行期间，KA进行了相当大的升级。这些升级由美国国家科学基金会、美国国家航空航天局和海军研究办公室资助。该设施是最先进的，新的仪器不断被集成到研究平台中。大量即将到来的NSF资助的科学项目将依赖于KA/WCR系统，极大地促进了新科学的发展。由于来自全国各地大学的学生广泛参与，该计划还将产生更广泛的影响。此外，K-12学生已经被介绍到飞机能够进行的研究类型，这一努力将在新的合作协议期间扩大。

The University of Wyoming (UW) will maintain and operate a King Air aircraft as a NSF national facility. UW has operated the King Air as a NSF facility since 1987. During the period of this Cooperative Agreement, pending availability of funds, UW will also operate and maintain the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) as part of the King Air (KA) research aircraft system. The combined KA/WCR system will greatly expand the scientific capability of the facility.The KA has had considerable upgrades made to it during the period of performance of the last Cooperative Agreement. These upgrades have been funded by NSF, NASA and the Office of Naval Research. The facility is state-of-the art, and new instrumentation is continually being integrated into the research platform.A large number of upcoming NSF funded science programs will depend upon the KA/WCR system, greatly enabling new science. The program will also have broader impacts due to the broad participation of students from universities throughout the country. In addition, K-12 students have been introduced to the types of research that the aircraft enables, and this effort will be expanded during the time period of the new Cooperative Agreement.