Update from the Space Weather Advisory Group

The Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act, Public Law 116-181, directed the Administrator of NOAA and the National Science and Technology Council’s Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) Subcommittee to establish the Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG). SWAG was appointed by SWORM on April 21, 2021. It consists of 15 members with 5 members each representing non-government end users, the commercial sector, and the academic community.

SWAG is to receive advice from the academic community, the commercial space weather sector, and nongovernmental space weather end users to carry out the responsibilities of SWAG set forth in the PROSWIFT Act.

The PROSWIFT Act outlined a variety of duties for SWAG including, facilitating the advances in the space weather enterprise, improving the ability of the US to prepare for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from space weather phenomena, enabling the coordination and facilitation of R2O2R, and developing and implementing the integrated strategy for coordinated observation. The PROSWIFT Act also directed SWAG to conduct a 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. In September 2024, SWAG released its second report - Results of the First National Survey of User Needs for Space Weather.

This session will be a panel discussion to provide an overview of SWAG, introduce new members, and discuss SWAG activities, including the recently released report.