The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a new major facility supported by the National Science Foundation designed to provide data and information to scientists, educators, decision makers and the general public on how land use, climate change and invasive species affect biodiversity, disease ecology, and ecosystem processes. NEON is a continental scale system that will collect consistent, calibrated data from 60 sites in the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico over 30 years. NEON will produce basic calibrated data and synthetic products. This information, the NEON data products, will be freely and openly available to scientists, educators, students, decision makers, and the public. The NEON infrastructure is a means to enable transformational science and to promote broad ecological literacy. In response to the needs of science and society, NEON will provide information to enable analysis and forecasting in the areas of bioclimate, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, ecohydrology, infectious disease, and land use and land cover. This proposed organized poster session brings together contributions that describe how NEON will collect, process, and deliver data in support of ecological analysis and forecasting by the scientific community. Contributions include descriptions of the NEON sub-subsystem designs, results of prototype efforts that inform the NEON design, analyses of the NEON network design, and early approaches to using NEON type data to solve problems in continental scale ecology.