diff --git a/configs/common/packages.yaml b/configs/common/packages.yaml
index 990e53482..eea4c9969 100644
--- a/configs/common/packages.yaml
+++ b/configs/common/packages.yaml
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@
       version: [1.8.0]
     qt:
       version: [5.15.3]
+    scotch:
+      version: [7.0.3]
     sfcio:
       version: [1.4.1]
     shumlib:
diff --git a/configs/templates/ufs-weather-model-static/spack.yaml b/configs/templates/ufs-weather-model-static/spack.yaml
index 8343fa3f5..60d60995f 100644
--- a/configs/templates/ufs-weather-model-static/spack.yaml
+++ b/configs/templates/ufs-weather-model-static/spack.yaml
@@ -36,3 +36,4 @@ spack:
   - parallelio@2.5.9+fortran~pnetcdf~shared
   - sp@2.3.3
   - w3emc@2.9.2
+  - scotch@7.0.3
diff --git a/spack b/spack
index f5a6f1dfe..c94d313cb 160000
--- a/spack
+++ b/spack
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit f5a6f1dfe2a220d66339dbb8af50685f3a8a03ae
+Subproject commit c94d313cb206c1a518b57e1e60037143a8fbba40