30 June 2026 | ZEROGeoengineering.com | The following Department of Transportation (DOT) / Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Budget Submission for FY2027 provides appropriations requests for FAA activities including the Aviation Weather Research Program (AWRP) and other programs that involve the collection of biometric data. Weather research is enabled by an overarching global system of observation (aka, surveillance) comprised of satellites, telecommunications, NEXRAD, interoperable wireless instruments, and devices).

DOT and FAA collaborate with the unelected United Nations (UN) World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN-affiliated International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) that set global aviation standards. Additionally, DOT and FAA are partners in the Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services (ICAMS)–federal weather research enterprise agencies. ICAMS is authorized by the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 (Public Law No. 115-25, Title IV, sec. 402, 15 U.S.C. § 8542). 

NOTE: Research activities that involve releasing polluting emissions into the commons or collecting personal data, lack informed public consent and raise serious ethical, legal, and environmental questions.

Research, Engineering, & Development

Aviation Weather Research Program (AWRP) 

                                                                        weather mitigation techniques

maximize the impact of federally funded R&D by accelerating the transfer of innovative technologies to the commercial marketplace

aviation-related research

capitalize on new advances in biometric data collection (i.e., smart watches and eye tracking)

Link To FAA FY 2027 Budget Estimates

Contrails Research Roadmap — FAA, NASA, NOAA

Link To Contrails Research Roadmap

Related

FAA & EPA’s Collaboration with the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

“Aviation Induced Cloudiness”

This Is Not Just Research

THE U.S. WEATHER AND CLIMATE ENTERPRISE

The Federal Weather Enterprise Fiscal Year 2019 Budget and Coordination Report – Agency Funding

‘‘Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026’’

NOAA Budget Estimates FY 2027

Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Review of NOAA’s FY2027 Budget

White House FY 2027 Budget Funding and Defunding

M-25-34 NSTM-2 Memo Outlines FY2027 Federal R&D Budget Priorities