The mission of NWS weather and seasonal prediction models is to provide the best possible numerical guidance to customers, where forecasts must be available reliably and on time. To address growing service demands and improve the accuracy of forecasts, NWS also needs to remain at the cutting-edge of research and continuously transition science advances from the research community into operations. This town hall meeting is for NWS to communicate with its partners and stakeholders on NWS model development and transition processes at the NCEP Environmental Modeling Center with the goal of fostering more effective research-to-operations transition to improve NWS models. For additional information, please contact Michael Ek michael.ek@noaa.gov or Hendrik Tolman hendrik.tolman@noaa.gov.