field, oversees the development of career field training plans and computer-based tutorials on new equipment, is constructing the first formal AFWWS Technical Training Program, and coordinates standardisation and evaluation visits of wing units. The Communications Directorate (A6) provides overall direction for the development of doctrine, policies and procedures, as well as professional, technical, and managerial expertise, for communication and information systems, information assurance, and information management for wing. They also provide communication and information policy, guidance, management, operations, software development, and maintenance of communications and computer systems and services to satisfy the centralised weather support requirements of the DoD and other government agencies. Directs the planning, programming, budgeting, acquisition, and life cycle management for all standard weather systems and computer processing equipment. The Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programs Directorate (A5/A8) directs the planning, programming, budgeting, acquisition, and life cycle management for all standard weather systems and computer processing equipment. Equipping the weather force is mainly a function of the A8 directorate. They coordinate capabilities development conducted by three separate production centers and integrate them into a single Air Force Weather Weapon System. The Lt. Gen. Thomas Samuel Moorman Building, valued at US$26.7 million, is the headquarters for the 557th Wing, with . The three-story building, designed to support 1,100 people, and was scheduled to become fully operational by 2011 as the staff moved in increments. Component units Unless otherwise indicated, units are based at Offut AFB, Nebraska, and subordinate units are at the same location as their commanding group. 1st Weather Group 15th Operational Weather Squadron (Scott Air Force Base, Illinois) 17th Operational Weather Squadron (Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii) 21st Operational Weather Squadron (Sembach Kaserne, Germany) 25th Operational Weather Squadron (Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona) 26th Operational Weather Squadron (Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana) 28th Operational Weather Squadron (Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina) Operating Location K (Radar Operations Center, Norman, Oklahoma) 2nd Weather Group 2nd Combat Weather Systems Squadron (Hurlburt Field, Florida) 2nd Systems Operations Squadron 2nd Weather Squadron Detachment 1 (RAAF Base Learmonth, Australia) Detachment 2 (Sagamore Hill Solar Observatory, Massachusetts) Detachment 3 (San Vito dei Normanni Air Station, Italy) Detachment 4 (Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico) Detachment 5 (Kaena Point Space Force Station, Hawaii) Operating Location A (Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado) Operating Location B (Joint Base Langley–Eustis, Virginia) Operating Location D (Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi) Operating Location P (Boulder, Colorado) 2nd Weather Support