Geoffrey D Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Christina Cohen, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Dale E Gary, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, David Jackson, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Pete Riley, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, Susan Skone, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and The Next Steps Space Weather Benchmarks Committee