Coordination of U.S. Arctic Research

Authors: Hinzman, Larry Office of Science and Technology Policy

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The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) brings together leaders from 18 agencies, departments, and offices across the U.S. Federal government to enhance research in the Arctic. IARPC creates and implements the five-year U.S. Arctic Research Plan, which identifies ways in which Federal agencies can better work together to conduct and fund research in the Arctic. The plan is developed in consultation with the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, the state of Alaska, residents of the Arctic, the private sector, and public interest groups. IARPC was created in 1984 under the Arctic Research and Policy Act (ARPA). The act called for a comprehensive national policy focused on research needs and objectives in the Arctic. IARPC, along with the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, was created to implement the act. IARPC seeks to facilitate and encourage collaboration in Arctic research, both among Federal agencies and offices, and among the broader Arctic community. We are now soliciting input as we update the Implementation Plan for the Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026. Federal agencies and the IARPC Collaborations community are successfully meeting many of the deliverables of the Arctic Research Plan's first implementation plan, and are now beginning to craft the next two-year plan (2025-2026) which will be released in November 2024. This implementation plan will be an update of the first one, rather than a completely new plan. IARPC is asking the Arctic research community to help celebrate the successes and accomplishments, highlight where organizers need to shift their attention, and suggest where new research deliverables may be needed.

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