Vision:

Reduce societal vulnerabilities to space weather through world-class research and technology development and fostering relationships across all domains encompassing science, operations and users

Objectives:

• Develop efficient algorithms to assess stability and characterize irregularities in the ionosphere
• Integrate algorithms with an operational background model and document forecast skill as a function of model input parameters and their uncertainties
• Demonstrate GNSS user impact products that are timely, quantitative and geographically specific
• Develop a roadmap for future data collection architectures and model improvements specific to scintillation forecasting

Benefits:

• Global scintillation forecasting capabilities for GNSS users prevents unanticipated disruptions to PNT applications
• Supports alerts for civilian and military users of other RF systems, such as SATCOM and HF
• Guide improvements to GNSS technology
• Machine learning methodologies applicable to other domains