Staff from National Science Foundation’s Biology Directorate and the Divisions of Biological Infrastructure and Environmental Biology will provide updates about the NEON facility. With the completion of construction and the transition of the Observatory into full operations, the planned 30-year period of operations has started. NSF staff will address the Agency’s plans for oversight of the network to ensure delivery of quality data to the research community and the plans for building the NEON user community and optimizing the Observatory throughout its lifetime. After a short presentation a panel of NSF staff will be available to address questions about NEON, its science goals, management and operations, and user engagement.