At the last few AMS Annual meetings, the NOAA Modeling Forum has been held as a place to socialize (operational) model development and receive community input. This year's forum will focus on progress being made with developing a Unified Forecast System (UFS) for community model development, general research and NOAA's operational production suite. Whereas the actual format and speakers will be determined closer to the Annual Meeting dates, we expect to cover * Progress toward a UFS made this year. * The formal NCAR-NWS-OAR partnership on developing the infrastructure for the UFS * The Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) and its relation to the UFS