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Session Leads: Brian Thomas, Arnaud Masson, Rebecca Ringuette The Decadal Session was a purposefully interactive session, involving the use of Miro boards and small and large group discussions. The three concepts that rose to the top were: A new longer-term funding structure designed to enhance collaboration, reuse, and maintenance of software; The purposeful development of interoperable mission tools through cross-institutional development; and Increased collaboration with efforts in other sciences through involvement in their conferences covering standards and archiving efforts. The first topic is one that has been highly prioritized by the software community in recent years (e.g., Ringuette et al. 2024). However, the topic was skipped due to the U.S. government shutdown and the resulting funders not in attendance. Topic 2 drew the most discussion. There was general agreement that a slightly higher level of funding will be needed due to challenges of collaborating across institutions and the extra work to increase reusability of mission software. However, there was also palpable optimism that this slight increase of funding would more than pay off once a few foundational softwares were created from currently existing options. Then, the community could shift to contributing to existing tools to increase applicability to new missions or provide high quality justifications why a new tool would be needed. Topic 3 can be succinctly summarized by a paraphrase of a participant’s comment, ‘Look at what others are doing!’ There was strong interest to collaborate with related fields such as Earth Science, Astrophysics, and Planetary Science to develop and shift standards in Heliophysics to take advantage of where standards in other fields have demonstrated benefit (e.g., by attending the ESIP workshop). Similar collaboration was also desired across data repositories, both internationally in Heliophysics and in related sciences, to accelerate progress in resolving shared problems. This could be through a yearly workshop focused on data repositories and services where the international Heliophysics data archiving community shares their challenges and recently solved problems. However, a wider cross-science connection on those same problems was also desired, potentially through an existing or future relevant group in the Research Data Alliance (e.g., the Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Data Community of Practice) and participation in the related workshops. This summary includes more details of those conversations, including screenshots of the Miro board used to generate group discussion.