User Needs Survey by the Space Weather Advisory Group
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is extending an existing information collection (OMB Control Number 0648-0814) to conduct a comprehensive user needs survey on space weather products. The survey is required by 51 U.S. Code § 60601(d)(3) and will be administered by the Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG). It targets seven specific sectors: Aviation, Emergency Management, Global Navigation Satellite System, Human Space Flight, Power Grid, Research, and Space Situational Awareness/Space Traffic Management. The data will assess current federal goals for lead time, accuracy, coverage, timeliness, data rate, and data quality, and identify improvements in research, observations, forecasting, prediction, modeling, new technologies, and preparedness for space weather events.
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Key Changes
- Extension of OMB Control Number 0648-0814 for user needs survey
- Survey targets 491 respondents across 7 sectors
- Average burden hours vary by sector: 15 minutes to 8 hours per response
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Obligations
What this law requires
NOAA/SWAG must conduct a comprehensive survey of space weather product users to identify research, observations, forecasting, prediction, and modeling advances required to improve space weather products, as required by 51 U.S. Code § 60601(d)(3)
SWAG must assess the adequacy of current Federal Government goals for lead time, accuracy, coverage, timeliness, data rate, and data quality for space weather observations and forecasting
SWAG must identify options and methods to improve Federal Government goals for space weather observations and forecasting in consultation with the academic community and commercial space weather sector
SWAG must identify opportunities for collection of new data to address the needs of the space weather user community
SWAG must identify methods to increase coordination of space weather research to operations and operations to research