Sec. 2. Aviation weather and data innovation
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The Director of the National Weather Service shall maintain an aircraft-based observation program (in this section referred to as the program ) to partner with the weather industry for the deployment on aircraft of critical atmospheric sensors. The program shall include activities that carry out the following: Procurement of weather data from commercial aircraft, including Mode S data, water vapor data, or data from Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay or Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting systems.
Acquisition of additional vertical profile observations that provide the spatial and temporal density required for numerical weather prediction systems. The Director of the National Weather Service shall, not less frequently than annually, submit to Congress a proposed budget corresponding with the activities described in subsection (b). There is authorized to appropriated to the Operations, Research, and Facilities account of the National Weather Service up to $10,000,000 for each fiscal years 2024 through 2028 to carry out this section.
In this section, the term weather industry has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 ( 15 U.S.C. 8501 ).
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