The International and Interagency Affairs Office works closely with other agencies on the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and its Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR) and Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction (SNDR), and U.S. Group on Earth Observation (USGEO).

One member of the staff supports NESDIS/IA interests on the Data Management Working Group of the SGCR; another member is leading an effort to draft an internationally focused paper: Living with Earth's Extremes: Building Global Coalitions to Reduce Disasters for the SNDR.

NOAA works closely with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support a variety of U.S. Government environmental interests. NOAA and NASA work together to improve knowledge of environmental processes; to improve the observational capabilities of operational and research satellite systems; to improve the acquisition, processing, distribution, and use of environmental data and information; to improve the acquisition, processing, and distribution of search and rescue and environmental data collection systems; and to reduce the cost of new observational satellite systems.

NASA participates together with NOAA and DOD in NPOESS, an integrated environmental satellite approach to meet the future needs of the civilian and military user communities. This joint program operates under the Integrated Program Office at NOAA, and will replace the current Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite missions with the launch of the first NPOESS Satellite scheduled for 2013.

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) is operated by NOAA for DOD to aid the US military in planning operations through strategic and tactical weather prediction. DMSP monitors the meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics environments. DMSP is currently anticipated to remain operational through 2014.

DOD participates together with NOAA and NASA in the National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, an integrated approach to meet the needs of the civilian and military communities. This joint program operates under the Integrated Program Office at NOAA, and will replace the current Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and NOAA polar missions with its first launch in 2013.
This tri-agency program operates under the Integrated Program Office at NOAA. NOAA is also working with the Institute for Defense Analyses and the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics).

NOAA continues to play a key role both nationally and internationally towards the development of comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained Earth observation systems. At the national level, NOAA serves as co-chair on the U.S. Group on Earth Observation (USGEO). The USGEO, a standing subcommittee of the White House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, is composed of 15 federal agencies and three White House offices and is charged with developing a U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System. An important milestone was reached in April 2005 as the USGEO released its Strategic Plan for the US Integrated Earth Observation System. At the international level, NOAA serves as the U.S. co-chair for the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The GEO, which now includes more than 70 countries and the European Commission as members and more than 50 international organizations as participants, is working to develop a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). At the Third Global Earth Observation Summit, held in February 2005 in Brussels the GEOSS 10-Year Implementation plan was adopted. By adopting the plan, GEO member nations have accomplished an important first step towards the development of GEOSS.