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At the last six AMS Annual meetings, the NOAA Modeling Forum has been held as a place to socialize (operational) environmental model development and receive community input. In the last few years, this forum has been focusing more and more on the Unified Forecast System (UFS) approach to modeling adopted by NOAA. The UFS seeks to use community modeling as a way to accelerate transition of innovations into the NOAA operational Production Suite of models, while simultaneously enabling research to be done with operational models and applications. The Town Hall this year will focus on general progress made with the UFS both for research and operations. In particular, we expect to focus on a more formalized and streamlined approach to the Innovation/Research to operations, and the Operations to Research/Innovation processes, and to the filling of identified gaps in the UFS, such as unifying work flows, and closing gaps in fully coupled modeling at a wide range of time scales, as well as accelerating the development of the UFS using the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC).Note that this town hall is part of the 2nd Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation