Where is the UFS in 2025?

At the last seven 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 innovations in the NOAA operational Production Suite of models, while simultaneously enabling research to be done with operational models and applications. With the increasing maturity of the UFS, it was decided to discontinue this town hall series, and instead provide a UFS update as a regular paper at AMS in the Community Modeling and Innovation conference (4CMI). The paper will provide an general progress update of the UFS both from a technical and a governance perspective.