Sec. 2103. Personnel management

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The Director shall establish and maintain within the Directorate a staff with sufficient qualifications and expertise to enable the Directorate to carry out its responsibilities under this title. The Director may designate employees to serve as program directors for the programs established within the Directorate pursuant to the responsibilities established under paragraph (2). The Director shall ensure that program directors— have expertise in the key technology focus areas; and come from a variety of backgrounds, including industry, and from a variety of institutions of higher education.

A program director of a program of the Directorate shall be responsible for— establishing research and development goals for the program, including through the convening of workshops and conferring with outside experts and by publicizing the goals of the program to the public and private sectors; soliciting proposals from entities to conduct research in areas of particular promise within key technology focus areas, especially areas that the private sector or the Federal Government are not likely to undertake alone; identifying areas for research and development; building research collaborations for carrying out the program; reviewing applications for projects to be supported under the program, and considering— the novelty and scientific and technical merit of the proposed projects; broader impacts criteria under section 526 of the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2010 ( 42 U.S.C. 1862p–14 ); the demonstrated capabilities of the applicants to successfully carry out the proposed project; the consideration by the applicant of future commercial applications of the project, including the feasibility of partnering with 1 or more commercial entities; and such other criteria as are established by the Director; and monitoring the progress of projects supported under the program and recommending program restructure or termination, as needed.

Program directors of the Directorate may be appointed by the Director for a limited term, renewable at the discretion of the Director. The Directorate may use a peer review process to inform the selection of award recipients. Not later than 18 months after the establishment of the Directorate, the Director shall prepare and submit a report to Congress regarding the use of alternative methods for the selection of award recipients and the distribution of funding to recipients, as compared to the traditional peer review process.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to modify the authority of the Director or the National Science Board with respect to the selection of recipients for funding from the Foundation.

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