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In this Act: (1) Administration The term Administration means the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2) Administrator The term Administrator means the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (3) Advanced computing techniques The term advanced computing techniques includes the hardware, software, and computational methods necessary to develop and deploy advanced weather models, such as artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, cloud computing, numerical methods, machine learning, data assimilation, large scale data analytics, predictive analysis techniques, and quantum computing. (4) Advanced weather model The term advanced weather model means a model or suite of models used for the prediction of physical, biological, or chemical Earth system processes spanning weather, seasonal to subseasonal, or climate time scales. (5) Appropriate committees of Congress The term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and (B) the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives. (6) Department The term Department means the Department of Energy. (7) Institution of higher education The term institution of higher education has the meaning given that term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). (8) National Laboratory The term National Laboratory has the meaning given that term in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15801). (9) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy.