Space weather products and forecasts in the GOES-R era and beyond must advance to meet increasingly demanding user needs. The history of the development of space weather services has shown a clear path – technologies find vulnerabilities that require better space weather services and the services move forward. A new technology, as was experienced with the growth and implementation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the past 15 years, will also drive the need for improvements. Commercial airline flights over the poles and the desires for faster, better, more easily understandable space weather products and services is a more recent example of a need driving better services. Manned space missions of the future will need better forecasts and specifications of solar radiation storms, the conditions that are of great concern for the health of astronauts.

GOES-R, in combination within various NASA and ESA missions, stands ready to supply the key data that will allow progress to be made. With the new data there is an equally strong need to develop better physical models of the space environment, allowing forecasters to quickly apply the best science to the real-time conditions as they occur. This presentation will give a vision of customer needs in the future, the new and exciting data streams envisioned, and the practicalities of providing real-time products and services to the customers of the future.