In the fall of 2020, Congress unanimously passed, both in the House and the Senate, the Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act, signed into Public Law: 116-181 in October 2020.

In accordance with section 60601 of the PROSWIFT Act, NOAA established the first ever Federal Advisory Group to advise the Office of Science and Technology Policy Space Weather Operations Research and Mitigation (SWORM) Subcommittee.

The PROSWIFT Act directs SWAG members to receive advice from the academic community, the commercial space weather sector, and space weather end users that will inform the interests and work of the SWORM.

The PROSWIFT Act states the first order of business for the SWAG is to conduct the mandated comprehensive survey of the needs of users of space weather products to identify the space weather research, observations, forecasting, prediction, and modeling advances required to improve space weather products. The survey shall:

1. Assess the adequacy of Federal Government goals for lead time, accuracy, coverage, timeliness, data rate, and data quality for space weather observations and forecasting;
2. Identify options and methods, in consultation with the academic and commercial space weather sectors, to advance the above goals;
3. Identify opportunities for collection of data to address needs of space weather users;
4. Identify methods to increase coordination of space weather R2O2R;
5. Identify opportunities for new technologies, research, and instrumentation to aid in understanding, monitoring, modeling, prediction, and warning of space weather; and
6. Identify methods and technologies to improve preparedness for space weather.

In this session, an overview of the SWAG and preliminary results of the user survey conducted throughout 2023 will be given by the SWAG chair and appropriate SWAG sector leads. A discussion will follow, and the community will have the opportunity to provide input.