US Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) have introduced the TAME Extreme Weather and Wildfires Act, bipartisan legislation which would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to take several actions to support the use of AI forecasting and weather models, including: developing a dataset to train AI forecasting models, supporting the deployment of AI weather models into forecasts, and partnering with private sector and academia on AI weather and wildfire forecasting. The bill (S. 1378; H.R. 2770) was initially introduced in the House and Senate last Congress but did not advance out of either chamber. The legislation did, however, advance out of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee in July 2024 as an amendment to the Fire Ready Nation Act. The new legislation remains largely unchanged but adds a focus on wildfires.
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