The 2023 Space Weather Enterprise Forum: Harnessing Partnerships to Meet the Challenges of Extreme Space Weather

After a two year hiatus, the annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum (SWEF) reconvened on June 22, 2023. The forum offers a unique opportunity to bring together space weather stakeholders, policymakers, senior government leaders, researchers, service provider agencies, private-sector service providers, space weather information users, and legislators and staff from Capitol Hill to address the state of Nation’s space weather monitoring and prediction capabilities and discuss priorities for the years ahead. This year, the Office of Space Weather Observations, formerly the Office of Projects, Partnerships, and Analysis (OPPA), in NOAA/NESDIS organized SWEF on behalf of Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services (ICAMS) with support of SWEF’s cross‐sector organizing committee. The theme of the 2023 SWEF was “Harnessing Partnerships to Meet the Challenges of Extreme Space Weather.” Key takeaways are presented from the range of topics covered during SWEF 2023 including progress by the space weather community in response to the Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act, recommendations of the Space Weather Advisory Group, and government and industry efforts to prepare the Nation for the upcoming solar maximum phase of Solar Cycle 25.