Owing to its wide sky coverage and broad energy range, the Fermi
Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an excellent observer of the transient hard
X-ray sky. GBM detects about 240 triggered Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) per year, including
over 30 which also trigger the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). The
number of GRBs seen in common with Swift is smaller than expected from
the overlap in sky coverage because GBM is not as sensitive as the BAT and the GBM GRB
population is thus skewed to the brighter, closer bursts. This population includes about
45 short GRBs per year, giving GBM an excellent opportunity to observe the electromagnetic
counterpart to any gravitational wave candidate resulting from the merger of compact
binary members. The same characteristics make GBM an ideal partner for neutrino searches
from nearby GRBs, and for the elusive Very-High Energy (VHE) counterparts to GRBs. With
the deployment of the next-generation gravitational-wave detectors (Advanced LIGO/VIRGO)
and VHE experiments (CTA and HAWC) potentially within the lifetime of the Fermi
Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the prospects for breakthrough observations are
good.