Department of Commerce (DOC)

Within DOC, NOAA has the mission of describing and predicting Earth's environment. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center hosts an operational forecast center and research activities. The forecast center, operated jointly with the US Air Force, provides space weather forecasts and warnings to users in government and industry and to the general public.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

NASA will continue its traditional role of space exploration and study of the solar-terrestrial system. NASA's missions in space physics, current and planned, are designed to fulfill important complementary requirements: to answer specific scientific questions; to improve and advance our empirical understanding of events and conditions in space; and to develop and use new technology.

Department of Defense (DOD)

The Air Force and the Navy conduct research and development to minimize adverse space weather impacts on operational readiness and to minimize the resources needed to restore these capabilities. DOD develops operational models of the solar-terrestrial system and develops and flight-tests new sensors.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF is responsible for maintaining the health of basic research in all areas of the atmospheric sciences. The foundation supports theoretical, observational, and numerical modeling research with the goals of increasing fundamental understanding of space environment processes and improving space weather predictive capabilities.

Department of the Interior (DOI)

The Department of the Interior’s US Geological Survey’s Geomagnetism Program provides high-quality, ground-based magnetometer data continuously from 14 observatories distributed across the United States and its territories. The Program collects, transports, and can disseminate these data in near-real time, and it also has significant data-processing and data-management capacities. Working through the Intermagnet organization, and with other national geomagnetism programs, the USGS Geomagnetism Program also assists in the coordinated, global-scale monitoring of the Earth’s magnetic field. Additional information can be found at: http://geomag.usgs.gov & http://www.intermagnet.org

Department of Energy (DOE)

Within DOE, Defense Programs supports research concerned with space weather in the context of its missions regarding nuclear event detection by satellite surveillance. Programs in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy are concerned with space weather issues regarding possible impacts on electrical energy transmission. Research programs in the Office of Basic Energy Sciences are concerned with fundamental aspects of solar- terrestrial interactions.

Department of Transportation (DOT)

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the responsibility to provide national and international leadership in the optimization of aviation weather systems and services. Space Weather is a concern to FAA in several areas of operations and regulations. These include the WAAS and LAAS programs for improving the precision of GPS navigation and projects to determine and monitor radiation exposure for high altitude and high latitude flights. In addition, FAA planners for commercial space operations are working on the weather requirements to set criteria for space launch activities.