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From the energetic induced particle degradation of spacecraft microelectronics to the scintillation of trans-ionospheric communication links, the impacts of space weather have become increasingly recognized within the civilian and military space, communications, navigation, and power distribution communities. Several government agencies in the United States have been working together under the auspices of the National Space Weather Program (NSWP) to guide research and development in order to meet the space weather requirements of today’s space-dependant society. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has long been developing technologies to specify, forecast, and mitigate the hazards of the space environment with specific emphasis on the impacts to military systems. We present an overview of military space weather needs in the context of the National Security Space Architects Space Weather Architecture and the NSWP. The AFRL research program is then described and several recent accomplishments discussed.
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Ginet, G.P. (2001). Space Weather: An Air Force Research Laboratory Perspective. In: Daglis, I.A. (eds) Space Storms and Space Weather Hazards. NATO Science Series, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0983-6_18
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