1. 14 January 2008CISM Presentation1 SWPC Safeguarding Our Advanced Technologies  Leveraging Research  Transition-to-Operations  Modern Forecast Environment  Reaching New Customers  Better Delivery of Services  Partnering With the Private Sector  Increasing Public Awareness Thomas J. Bogdan

2. 14 January 2008CISM Presentation2 Leveraging Research  Our current annual investment in space weather related R&D is approximately: (a) $1M (b) $10M (c) $100M (d) $1G  NASA, DoD, NSF, DoE, DoI, …  CISM, CCMC, GSFC, NCAR, AFRL, NRL, CSPAR, CSEM, MSFC, NSO, JHU/APL, SAO, IfA, NJIT, PPPL, JPL, UNH, BU, SSL, LASP, SwRI, NWRA, UCLA, UDel, UMD, Dartmouth, UCR, UCSD, UMontana, LMSL, Cornell, UMinn, UArizona, USU, UTDallas, Rice, GeoMason, UIllinois, UIowa, CIRES, UAF, LANL, FSI, MIT, UAH, ULowell, SRI, Penn State, UWashington, Duke, Aerospace Corp, UTAustin, MSFC, BC, …

3. 14 January 2008CISM Presentation3 Transition-to- Operations  Developmental Test-Bed Center  Rapid Prototyping Capability  Customer Feedback on Prototypes  Product Synthesis  Product Validation & Verification

4. 14 January 2008CISM Presentation4 Modern Forecast Environment  Forecasters vs. Operations Specialists  Automated Alerts, Watches and Warnings  Integrated Guidance from Numerical Space Weather Prediction Models  Ensemble and Probabilistic Forecasts

5. 14 January 2008CISM Presentation5 Reaching New Customers  Global Navigation Satellite Systems  Commercial Space Transportation  Commercial Satellite Services  Next Generation Air Transportation System  Emergency Management Personnel  Space-Based Defense and National Security  Power Grid Operations

6. 14 January 2008CISM Presentation6 Better Delivery of Services  Dedicated Push-Pull Data Delivery  Graphical User Interfaces  Streaming Space Weather Forecasts  Web-Based Dissemination

7. 14 January 2008CISM Presentation7 Partnering With the Private Sector  Real-Time Data Access  Products and Services for Decision-Makers  Specialized Decision-Support Tools  Sensors on Commercial Satellites/Aircraft  Radio Occultation Data Providers  Creating Markets

8. 14 January 2008CISM Presentation8 Increasing Public Awareness  Space Weather Enterprise Forum  Space Weather Week  In-Flight Infomercials  Space Weather Advisories on TV/Radio  Spare-Time University