1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Aviation Weather Improvement Act . 2. Aviation weather and data innovation (a) Program The Director of the National Weather Service shall maintain an airborne observation program (in this section referred to as the program ) for the acquisition of atmospheric sensor data and the deployment, in partnership with the weather enterprise, of critical atmospheric sensors. (b) Activities The program shall include activities that carry out the following: (1) Procurement of weather data available from commercial aircraft, as determined by the Director of the National Weather Service. (2) Acquisition of additional vertical profile observations that provide spatial and temporal density, as determined by the Director. (3) Analysis of procured data when incorporated into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s unified forecast system in order to provide improved forecast information for aircraft. (c) Budget The Director of the National Weather Service shall, not less frequently than annually, submit to Congress a proposed budget corresponding with the activities described in subsection (b), including an analysis of such activities that can be complemented by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aircraft. (d) Authorization of appropriations From amounts made available to Operations, Research, and Facilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there is authorized to be appropriated up to $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028 to carry out this section. (e) Definition In this section, the term weather enterprise has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 ( 15 U.S.C. 8501 ). 3. Aviation weather and turbulence forecasting coordination (a) In general The Director of the National Weather Service shall include turbulence events or phenomena, icing conditions, or other phenomena in the forecasting capabilities of the National Weather Service’s Aviation Weather