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The Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) will be used to assimilate NASA and other Earth Science data to produce analyses and forecasts that will have significant value to Air Quality (AQ) decision-makers by providing information on the impact of international aerosol particles on U.S. AQ. Presently, no quantitative daily forecasts or retrospective analyses of international plumes are available regularly to the AQ community as input to the decision-making processes associated with the Regional Haze Rule (RHR), Exceptional Event (EE) Rule, and daily forecasting. NAAPS is the only global operational aerosol forecast model with data assimilation and is the most effective way to present and distribute, MODIS, Deep Blue, AERONET, and CALIPSO data. NAAPS provides a bridge between NASA and other R&D investments and thereby meets the information needs of air quality organizations. The NAAPS analyses will be provided to the AQ community via the Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS) and the Federated Data System (DataFed). These are established and accepted Decision Support Systems (DSS) that currently serve data to a wide range of AQ users, including those involved with the RHR the Exceptional Event flagging. The proposed approach is practical in that it ties together three existing systems to serve the NAAPS data with relatively little additional investment in hardware, software, maintenance and training. This proposal leverages heavily on NASA's, EPA's and DoD's prior and future commitments to continued and improved spaceborne and surface observations and modeling. The proposed work contributes to the 'Air Quality Trend Analysis and Forecasting' application area by facilitating the application of NASA Earth Science satellite products and models to air quality management and policy issues, particularly issues associated with the implementation of air quality standards, policy, and regulation. The proposed work supports the three topics of Air Quality Forecasting, Compliance, and Planning.