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Introduced April 9, 2025 by Brian Emanuel Schatz · Last progress April 9, 2025
The bill funds NOAA AI R&D and provides public datasets and standards to improve forecasts and warnings—boosting jobs and operational reliability—while increasing federal spending and giving NOAA discretion to withhold or limit access to some models/data for security, IP, or partnership reasons.
Scientists, forecasters, and emergency managers receive free, public AI-ready training datasets and prototype models that enable development of improved forecasting tools and decision support.
Communities — especially rural and urban areas — are likely to get timelier, more accurate warnings for weather, water, wildfire, and space weather hazards due to improved AI models and quantified uncertainty.
Federal investment ($130M) accelerates NOAA R&D, creates technical jobs, and helps NOAA recruit and retain expert personnel.
Taxpayers fund $130M in appropriations to support NOAA AI activities, increasing federal spending.
NOAA may withhold models or data for national security or intellectual property reasons and issue classified reporting on foreign risks, which could limit public access, third‑party verification, and overall transparency.
Partnerships and shared-IP/co-investment arrangements with private and international entities could impose commercial restrictions on reuse of some outputs, limiting open science and third‑party development.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs NOAA's Under Secretary for Weather and Atmospheric Research to develop, curate, and share large, public-facing training datasets and AI-based weather, water, wildfire, and space-weather models while continuing support for traditional observations and numerical modeling. The bill authorizes federal funding to create assessment frameworks, technical assistance, partnership arrangements (including public-private and international co-investment and shared IP), staff recruitment, and recurring reporting to Congress, and it includes a classified and unclassified risk report about foreign access to U.S. weather data.