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Building an Informed and Resilient Society – the Decade Ahead

PROGRAM:

Forum Agenda

The National Space Weather Program (NSWP) Council is organizing the next Space Weather Enterprise Forum scheduled for June 8 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Our theme this year is, “Building an Informed and Resilient Society – the Decade Ahead.” 

The NSWP Council is part of the U.S. Federal meteorological coordinating infrastructure under the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM). The Council brings together the Federal agencies involved in providing space weather products and services, space weather research, users of space weather information, and other offices that set policy or funding for the space weather enterprise. The purpose is to facilitate coordination, collaboration, and leveraging of activities, results, and capabilities across the Federal agencies.

As we approach the next peak of solar activity expected in 2013, our nation faces multiplying uncertainties from increasing reliance on space weather-affected technologies for communication, navigation, security, and other activities, many of which underpin our national infrastructure and economy. We also face increased exposure to space weather-driven human health risk as trans-polar flights and space activities, including space tourism, increase.

Over the years, the annual Space Weather Enterprise Forums have gathered a wide range of stakeholders including providers, users, and researchers from government, academia, and the private sector as well as legislators and staff from Capitol Hill to raise awareness and share information on space weather. This year, we will continue this outreach but will sharpen the focus on critical infrastructure protection, with the necessary underpinnings of research, improved products and services, and applications to serve a broad and growing user community.

We will again follow a panel session format, including brief presentations by the expert panelists followed by ample time for lively exchange across a diverse group of attendees.


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