Provisions in final bill

• Delineates the responsibilities for space weather-related research, forecasting, preparedness, and response among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Defense, Department of Interior, and the Federal Aviation Administration
• Directs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science and Technology Council to coordinate relevant agency activities
• Requires NOAA to secure reliable backup capabilities for “near real-time coronal mass ejection imagery, solar wind, solar imaging, coronal imagery, and other relevant observations required to provide space weather forecasts”
• Directs NOAA to consider options for building on baseline observation capabilities, including “commercial solutions, prize authority, academic partnerships, microsatellites, ground-based instruments, and opportunities to deploy the instrument or instruments as a secondary payload on an upcoming planned launch”
• Authorizes NOAA to establish a pilot program for purchasing space weather data from commercial entities
• Creates a 15 member space weather advisory group, with membership split evenly between representatives from the academic, commercial, and end-user communities