Creates a NOAA-led program to improve coastal flooding and storm surge forecasts, models, observations, and community-response tools with partners from the weather industry and academia. The program must set research and technology priorities, test new observations and models, deliver a program plan within 180 days, and link annual budget requests to that plan.

Directs NOAA, the National Weather Service, and FEMA (with industry and academic consultation) to identify and fill observation and information gaps in under-observed or highly vulnerable U.S. regions and territories. Requires pilot projects (including at least one using mesonet data for critical infrastructure decisions), support for testbeds, workforce training, and improved forecast products; no specific funding amounts are provided.