; (B) leverage connections with local emergency management officials for optimally disseminating tsunami warnings and forecasts; and (C) implement mass communication tools in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2017 used by the National Weather Service on such date and newer mass communication technologies as they are developed as a part of the Weather-Ready Nation program of the Administration, or otherwise, for the purpose of timely and effective delivery of tsunami warnings. (5) Uniform operating procedures The Administrator shall— (A) develop uniform operational procedures for the centers supported or maintained under paragraph (1), including the use of software applications, checklists, decision support tools, and tsunami warning products that have been standardized across the program supported under this section; (B) ensure that processes and products of the warning system operated under subsection (c)— (i) reflect industry best practices when practicable; (ii) conform to the maximum extent practicable with internationally recognized standards for information technology; and (iii) conform to the maximum extent practicable with other warning products and practices of the National Weather Service; (C) ensure that future adjustments to operational protocols, processes, and warning products— (i) are made consistently across the warning system operated under subsection (c); and (ii) are applied in a uniform manner across such warning system; (D) establish a systematic method for information technology product development to improve long-term technology planning efforts