Space Weather Proving Grounds is an umbrella term describing the activities undertaken by the various focal organizations in NOAA, NASA, DAF, NSF, and other entities that specialize in different domains of space weather and/or various aspects of the transition to operations and applied and use-inspired research. Encouraging engagement from multiple entities has the benefit of adding diversity to the transition process. The R2O2R Framework Document provides guiding principles for the Proving Grounds such that their objectives and goals are highly aligned, even if the entities themselves are not closely coupled administratively.
Current Proving Grounds:
- Architecture for Collaborative Evaluation (ACE) - shared CCMC and SWPC computing environment
- Space Weather Prediction Testbed (SWPT) - Testbeds also serve as Proving Grounds
- NOAA Testbeds and Proving Grounds