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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 3084 (Reported in Senate) — To invest in innovation through research and development, and to improve the competitiveness of the United States. · Sec. 110

Sec. 110. NSF mid-scale project investments

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Congress makes the following findings: The Foundation funds major research facilities, infrastructure, and instrumentation that provide unique capabilities at the frontiers of science and engineering. Modern and effective research infrastructure is critical to maintaining United States leadership in science and engineering. Many proposed instruments, equipment, or upgrades to major research facilities fall between programs currently funded by the Foundation, creating a gap between Major Research Instrumentation and Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction, including projects that have been identified as cost-effective additions of high priority to the advancement of scientific understanding.
The 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey recommended a vigorous mid-scale innovations program. It is the sense of Congress that the addition of a competitive mid-scale funding opportunity that includes both research, instrument, and infrastructure is essential to the portfolio of the Foundation and advancing scientific understanding. The Foundation shall evaluate the existing and future needs, across all disciplines supported by the Foundation, for mid-scale projects.
The Director of the Foundation shall develop a strategy to meet the needs identified in paragraph (1). Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Foundation shall provide a briefing to the appropriate committees of Congress on the evaluation under paragraph
(1)and the strategy under paragraph (2). In this subsection, the term mid-scale projects means research, instrumentation, and infrastructure investments that fall between the instrumentation funded by the major research instrumentation program and the very large projects funded by the major research equipment and facilities construction program as described in section 507 of the AMERICA Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–358 ; 124 Stat. 4008).
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NSF mid-scale project investments
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