Sec. 2102. Directorate establishment and purpose
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Subject to the availability of appropriations and not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this division, the Director shall establish a Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the Foundation. The Directorate shall further the following purposes: Strengthening the leadership of the United States in critical technologies, including as relevant to the critical national needs described in section 7018 of the America COMPETES Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1862o–5 ). Addressing and mitigating technology challenges integral to the geostrategic position of the United States through the activities authorized by this title.
Enhancing the competitiveness of the United States by improving education in the key technology focus areas and attracting more students to such areas at all levels of education. Accelerating the translation and development of scientific advances in the key technology focus areas into processes and products in the United States. Utilizing the full potential of the United States workforce by avoiding undue geographic concentration of research and development and education funding across the United States, and encouraging broader participation in the key technology focus areas by populations underrepresented in STEM.
Ensuring the programmatic work of the Directorate and Foundation incorporates a workforce perspective from labor organizations and workforce training organizations. The Directorate— shall support basic and applied research, and technology development of such research, including through awards to individual researchers, entities, or consortia and through diverse funding mechanisms and models; shall identify and develop opportunities to coordinate and collaborate on research, development, and commercialization— with other directorates and offices of the Foundation; with stakeholders in academia, the private sector, and nonprofit entities; and with other Federal research agencies, as well as State and local governments; shall provide awards for research and development projects designed to achieve specific technology metrics or objectives; may support research and technology development infrastructure, including testbeds, to advance the development, operation, integration, and deployment of innovation; shall identify and develop opportunities to reduce barriers for technology transfer, including intellectual property frameworks between academia and industry, nonprofit entities, and the venture capital communities; shall build capacity for research at institutions of higher education across the United States; shall partner with other directorates and offices of the Foundation for projects or research, including— to pursue basic questions about natural, human, and physical phenomena that could enable advances in the key technology focus areas; to study questions that could affect the design (including human interfaces), safety, security, operation, deployment, or the social and ethical consequences of technologies in the key technology focus areas, including the development of technologies that complement or enhance the abilities of workers and impact of specific innovations on domestic jobs and equitable opportunity; and to further the creation of a domestic workforce capable of advancing, using, and adapting to key technology focus areas and understanding and improving the impact of key technology focus areas on STEM teaching and learning by advancing the key technology focus areas, including engaging relevant partners in research and innovation programs; may make awards under the SBIR and STTR programs (as defined in section 9(e) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 638(e) ); and may enter into and perform such contracts, make such financial assistance awards, carry out such other transactions, or make such other arrangements, or modifications thereof, as may be necessary in the conduct of the work of the Directorate and on such terms as the Director considers appropriate, in furtherance of the purposes of this title.
The Director shall appoint an Assistant Director for the Directorate, in the same manner as other Assistant Directors of the Foundation are appointed. Each Assistant Director for the Directorate shall be an individual, who by reason of professional background and experience, is specially qualified to advise the Foundation on all matters pertaining to research, development, and commercialization at the Foundation, including partnerships with the private sector and other users of Foundation funded research.
After completion of the studies regarding emerging technologies conducted by the Secretary of Commerce under title XV of division FF of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 ( Public Law 116–260 ), the Director shall consider the results of such studies in carrying out the activities of the Directorate.
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