---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 60606"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "60606"
heading: "Space weather knowledge transfer and information exchange"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/60606"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Earth Observations"
  - "Chapter 606 — Space Weather"
---

# §60606. Space weather knowledge transfer and information exchange


Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the PROSWIFT Act, the [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1), in collaboration with the [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) of the National Aeronautics and Space [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1) and the Director of the National Science Foundation, shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to establish a Space Weather Government-Academic-Commercial Roundtable to facilitate communication and knowledge transfer among Government participants in the space weather interagency working group established under [section 60601(c)](/usc/51/60601.md?p=c), the academic community, and the commercial space weather sector to—

- (1) facilitate advances in space weather prediction and forecasting;
- (2) increase coordination of space weather research to operations and operations to research; and
- (3) improve preparedness for potential space weather phenomena.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–181, § 2(b), Oct. 21, 2020, 134 Stat. 891.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of enactment of the PROSWIFT Act, referred to in text, is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 116–181, which was approved Oct. 21, 2020.