Sec. 202. Advanced innovation and commercialization program
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The Secretary, in collaboration with the National Laboratories, other Federal agencies, and private sector and university partners as the Secretary determines necessary, shall establish a program, to be known as the Advanced Innovation and Commercialization Program , to carry out research, development, and demonstration of technology that meets the targets established for those technologies identified in section 201(b). The Secretary shall establish a program to provide grants for early deployment of the technologies demonstrated under the Advanced Innovation and Commercialization program under this section.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $3,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025. The Secretary, in collaboration with the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the General Services Administration, shall establish Federal procurement goals and deadlines for achieving such goals for those technologies identified in section 201(b)(1) through (5). The Secretary, in collaboration with the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of General Services, shall— through administrative and regulatory actions, improve Federal procurement of the technologies described in paragraph (1); identify and report on barriers to improving Federal procurement of energy and technologies that require legislative changes; and take due regard of the recommendations from the 2016 report entitled Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Report of the Task Force on Federal Energy Management .