This bill directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop standards and guidelines that help federal agencies prepare their publicly available government data for use by artificial intelligence systems. The standards will cover data quality, documentation, metadata, how to handle intellectual property concerns, and ways to make datasets downloadable, machine-readable, accurate, and secure. All federal agencies must adopt these standards once they are finalized, though agencies can adapt them to fit their specific missions as long as the data remains compatible across government systems. The Director of NIST must publish the standards within one year of the bill's enactment and review them at least every two years afterward, with public comment periods of at least 60 days. Additionally, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration must specifically ensure its weather forecasting data meets these standards to support artificial intelligence and machine learning in operational forecasting, and report annually to Congress on its progress for five years.
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