; and (4) engage with, and leverage the resources of, entities within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in existence as of the date of the enactment of this Act, such as the National Integrated Drought Information System, the Regional Climate Center, and the National Mesonet Program, to improve coordination of water monitoring, forecasting, and management. (d) Consultation In developing and maintaining the National Integrated Flood Information System, the Under Secretary shall consult with relevant Federal, State, local, and Tribal government agencies, research institutions, and the private sector. (e) Cooperation from other Federal agencies Each Federal agency shall cooperate as appropriate with the Under Secretary in carrying out this section. 4. Observations and modeling for total water prediction (a) Partnerships (1) In general The Under Secretary shall establish partnerships with 1 or more institutions of higher education (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 )) to evaluate observations that would improve total water prediction. (2) Priority observations In establishing partnerships under paragraph (1), the Under Secretary shall prioritize partnerships to evaluate observations from unmanned aerial systems. (b) Maintained observations If the Under Secretary determines that incorporating additional observations improves total water prediction, the Under Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, continue incorporating those observations. (c) Modeling Improvements The Under Secretary shall advance geographic coverage, resolution, skill, and efficiency of coastal oceanographic modeling, including efforts that improve the coupling of and interoperability between hydrological models and coastal ocean models. (d) Geospatial data The Under Secretary shall advance the development of models to vertically transform geospatial data into a common system for use as the Federal standard for surveys and mapping. 5. Service coordination hydrologists at River