This THM is to introduce the AMS audience the need for, and activities associated with, the Radar Next Program.  The NWS is seeking to understand the holistic, diverse set of radar user needs.  We wish to speak to the user community of our desire to work with them to understand current unmet user needs and what the community will need in the 2035-2060 timeframe.  Radar Next is being designed for more agility to adapt to changing needs, adopting a mix of observations, and supporting new business models that, collectively, will result in improvements to NOAA’s forecast capabilities while providing improved system resiliency and robustness.  The Program will manage the development and deployment of the next generation of weather radar platforms.  This critical Program balances the urgency of filling existing or future performance gaps with the need to establish an improved, efficient NWS weather radar data collection capability.