Sec. 2. Advanced manufacturing technology consortia
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Section 33 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act ( 15 U.S.C. 278r ) is amended to read as follows: The Director shall carry out a program to facilitate the development of and provide support to industry-led consortia that will identify, prioritize, and address long-term, precompetitive industrial research needs in the area of advanced manufacturing. The objectives of the program established under this section include the following: To promote collective public-private efforts to develop key technology platforms and infrastructure for advanced manufacturing.
To enable the prioritization of public research portfolios to be more responsive to the long-term technology development needs of industry. To leverage Federal investment in advanced manufacturing with shared investment by the private sector. To increase industrial research and development investment in precompetitive technology platforms and infrastructure. To accelerate technological innovation in advanced manufacturing. To foster broad participation by industry, the Federal Government, institutions of higher education, and State, local, and tribal governments in advanced manufacturing research and development.
As part of the program established under this section, the Director shall— support the formation of industry-led consortia composed of representatives from industry (including small and medium-sized manufacturers), institutions of higher education, the Federal Government, State, local, and tribal governments, and other entities, as appropriate; collaborate with consortia participants in the development of technology roadmaps that identify research needs in the area of advanced manufacturing; support precompetitive research directed at meeting the research needs identified in the roadmaps developed under paragraph (2); promote the transfer of precompetitive technology platforms and infrastructure resulting from consortia research to the private sector and facilitate open access to the intellectual property underpinning those platforms and technology; and facilitate the development of new technologies into commercial products.
In selecting applications for awards under this section, the Director shall consider, at a minimum— the degree to which the activities proposed under the consortia will broadly impact manufacturing and increase the productivity and economic competitiveness of the United States; the level of technical risk to be addressed by the consortia; the potential to produce fundamental new knowledge; and the likelihood that the consortia will become self sustaining, if appropriate. There are authorized to be appropriated for carrying out this section $120,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018. .
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