National Landslide Preparedness Act Reauthorization Act of 2025

Key Points

• The bill authorizes hundreds of millions of dollars through 2030 for NOAA weather research, including about $163-170 million per year for weather laboratories, research programs, tornado and severe storm research, and technology transfer initiatives.
• New programs target specific deadly weather types, including atmospheric rivers, coastal flooding, storm surge, heat health emergencies, and harmful algal blooms. A National Integrated Heat Health Information System is created to reduce heat-related illness and death.
• NOAA is directed to use artificial intelligence and machine learning for weather forecasting, including developing AI weather models, curating training datasets, and making AI models available to the public.
• A $100 million per year Commercial Data Program lets NOAA buy weather data from private companies, expanding partnerships beyond government-owned satellites and sensors to fill observation gaps.
• The nation's aging NEXRAD radar network will be replaced through a new Radar Next Program, with a full implementation deadline of September 30, 2040, and the bill also modernizes NOAA Weather Radio to expand coverage to rural and underserved communities.
• The bill strengthens tornado and hurricane forecasting with a goal of transitioning from warn-on-detection to warn-on-forecast, extending accurate warnings beyond one hour in advance to give communities more time to prepare.