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2 National Priorities and the Development of a National Strategy for Space Weather
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... , "National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan" 1 Links to the presentations can be found at https://www.nationalacademies.org/spacewx-phaseI-presentations.
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... The FERC order required owners and operators of the bulk-power system to develop and implement operational procedures to mitigate the effects of geomagnetic storms. Then, in 2014, in response to growing concerns over the range of potential space weather impacts, OSTP established the SWORM task force, bringing together over 30 departments and agencies to develop a National Space Weather Strategy (NSWS)
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... 7 The 2015 National Space Weather Strategy and the 2015 National Space Weather Action Plan also called for the Department of Commerce to support research into the social and economic impacts of space-weather effects. This led to the Abt Associates September 2017 report, Social and Economic Impacts of Space Weather in the United States, https://www.weather.gov/media/news/SpaceWeatherEconomicImpactsReportOct-2017.pdf.
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... The United States must not only be an integral part of the global effort to prepare for space-weather impacts, but must also help mobilize broad, global support for this effort by using existing agreements and building international support and policies. 1 National Science and Technology Council, 2015, National Space Weather Action Plan, Washington, DC, October, https://www.hsdl.org/?
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... Space Policy Directive-1, "Reinvigorating America's Human Space Exploration Program,"8 issued on December 11, 2017, called for the NASA administrator to "lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities." NASA's response -- the Artemis program to return to the Moon and prepare for a human mission to Mars -- and its connections to space weather are discussed later in this proceedings. On March 26, 2019, during a meeting of the National Space Council meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, the White House released an update to the 2015 strategy and action plans.
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... 12 National Science and Technology Council, 2020, Research and Development Needs for Improving Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses: A Report by the Electromagnetic Pulse Research and Development Assessment Interagency Working Group Subcommittee on Resilience, Science and Technology Committee on Homeland and National Security, June, https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Research-DevelopmentNeeds-For-Improving-Resilience-to-Electromagnetic-Pulses-June-2020.pdf. 13 Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2019, 2019 National Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA)
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... Nonetheless, the decadal survey committee concluded that additional approaches18 were needed to develop improve space weather forecasts and predictions including: sustaining and enhancing critical observations, identifying research needs and promoting opportunities for research-to-operations and operations-to-research collaborations both within and outside of the Federal Government, advancing space weather models, engaging with all sectors of the space weather community, including academia, the commercial sector, and international partners, and understanding the needs of space weather end users." 16 "The Act, however, does not address the resilience of national security assets or critical infrastructure to the effects of space weather. Without ensuring the resilience of these assets, the United States will remain vulnerable to the effects of space weather, regardless of how accurate forecasting becomes.
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... These include a number of explicit references to the various roles for NASA, NOAA, and NSF; they also describe new developments where cooperative programs have arisen to address elements of the NSW-SAP. An overall message conveyed in the midterm report is that NOAA, as a primary conduit for space weather information, has been building fruitful partnerships with NASA and NSF that have the potential to transform space environment services through cooperative developments in observing and research-based modeling.


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