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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>SUBJECT: Release the Space Weather Advisory Group’s report<i> Findings and Recommendations to Successfully Implement PROSWIFT and Transform the National Space Weather Enterprise</i></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>In October 2020, Congress passed the Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act. The Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG) was chartered, pursuant to PROSWIFT, to, among other things, advise SWORM on a variety of space weather issues including the development and implementation of an integrated strategy for space weather (i.e., the National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan).<b> </b>In June 2022, SWAG was tasked to provide input to the SWORM for their update of the National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan. Our report, <i><a href="https://www.weather.gov/media/nws/REPORT-Findings-and-Recommendations-04202023.pdf">Findings and Recommendations to Successfully Implement PROSWIFT and Transform the National Space Weather Enterprise</a>,</i> identifies the urgent need to adequately fund the space weather enterprise to address persisting risk from space weather and better meet the growing and changing needs of stakeholders. To this end, SWAG identified 25 findings with 56 recommendations which, if implemented, will provide the funding, processes, support, and structure to foster transformative change across the national space weather enterprise. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Tammy Dickinson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Space Weather Advisory Group Chair</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>