SWORM White House Subcommittee Activities and Achievements

In 2014, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy chartered the White House Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) Subcommittee, currently composed of members from over 30 Federal departments and agencies. With the passage of the 2020 Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act, the SWORM is now mandated by law to continue its executive branch actions to improve the understanding and prediction of and preparation for space weather phenomena. SWORM developed a National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan (NSW-SAP), which was released in October 2015 and updated in 2019. In December 2023, SWORM released the Implementation Plan of the National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan, which updated and added to the interagency actions from the 2019 Plan. This talk will highlight the SWORM’s continued work on the Implementation Plan actions, its response to the recently released SWAG User Need Survey and other activities aimed at improving the resilience and response of the government to space weather.