in place to support data access and archive for long term research and operations among multiple partners. (c) Activities In carrying out the program under subsection (a), the Under Secretary shall support research-to-operations work, including relating to the following: (1) Implementing key strategies and following priorities and objectives outlined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Precipitation Prediction Grand Challenge Strategy . (2) Improving the physical science, operational modeling and tools, and technology related to better forecasting precipitation extremes across timescales. (3) Improving the social, behavioral, risk, communications, and economic sciences related to vulnerabilities, risk communication, and delivery of information critical for reducing the loss of life or property related to extreme precipitation. (4) Conducting the research necessary to develop and deploy probabilistic weather forecast guidance technology relating to precipitation extremes in operational practice. (5) Enhancing the operational capacity of the National Weather Service to deliver decision support for increasing precipitation extremes. (6) Expanding computational resources to improve precipitation modeling. (d) Annual budget The Under Secretary shall, not less frequently than annually, submit to Congress a proposed budget corresponding with carrying out this section. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 is amended by striking the item relating to section 603 and inserting the following new items: Sec. 603. Precipitation forecast improvement program. Sec. 604. Definitions. .