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The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) is a collaborative effort between multiple organizations to provide information and models relating to
space weather
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research. The partnership includes resources from
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeedi ...
, the
Air Force Materiel Command
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,
Air Force Research Laboratory
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(AFRL),
Air Force Weather Agency
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(AFWA),
NOAA
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, NSF, and ONR. Quoted from the site's main page, the CCMC is "a multi-agency partnership to enable, support and perform the research and development for next generation
space science
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and space weather models." The CCMC is based at the NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
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in
Greenbelt, Maryland
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