Sec. 2403. Establishment of expansion awards program in Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership and authorization of appropriations for the Partnership
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology Act ( 15 U.S.C. 271 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 25A ( 15 U.S.C. 278k–1 ) the following: The terms used in this section have the meanings given the terms in section 25. The Director shall establish, subject to the availability of appropriations, within the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership under sections 25 and 26 a program of expansion awards among participants described in subsection
(c)of this section for the purposes described in subsection
(d)of this section. Participants receiving awards under this section shall be Centers, or a consortium of Centers. An award under this section shall be made for one or more of the following purposes: To provide worker education, training, development, and entrepreneurship training and to connect individuals or business with such services offered in their community, which may include employee ownership and workforce training, connecting manufacturers with career and technical education entities, institutions of higher education (including community colleges), workforce development boards, State government programs for advanced manufacturing, entities (such as public-private partnerships) or a collection of entities and individuals carrying out an advanced manufacturing forum that would serve educationally underrepresented individuals (such as underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities), labor organizations, and nonprofit job training providers to develop and support training and job placement services, apprenticeship and online learning platforms, for new and incumbent workers, programming to prevent job losses when adopting new technologies and processes, and development of employee ownership practices. To mitigate vulnerabilities to cyberattacks, including helping to offset the cost of cybersecurity projects for small manufacturers. To expand advanced technology services to small- and medium-sized manufacturers, which may include— developing technology demonstration laboratories; services for the adoption of advanced technologies, including smart manufacturing technologies and practices; and establishing partnerships, for the development, demonstration, and deployment of advanced technologies, with— national laboratories (as defined in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 15801 )); Federal laboratories; Manufacturing USA institutes (as described in section 2402 of the Endless Frontiers Act); and institutions of higher education. To build capabilities across the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership for domestic supply chain resiliency and optimization, including— assessment of domestic manufacturing capabilities, expanded capacity for researching and deploying information on supply chain risk, hidden costs of reliance on offshore suppliers, and other relevant topics; and expanded services to provide industry-wide support that assists United States manufacturers with reshoring manufacturing to strengthen the resiliency of domestic supply chains, including in critical technology areas and foundational manufacturing capabilities that are key to domestic manufacturing competitiveness and resiliency, including forming, casting, machining, joining, surface treatment, tooling, and metal or chemical refining. The Director may reimburse Centers for costs incurred by the Centers under this section. Recipients of awards under this section shall not be required to provide a matching contribution. . There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership program under sections 25, 25A, and 26 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act ( 15 U.S.C. 278k , 278k–1, and 278l), and section 25B of such Act, as added by subsection (a), $480,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through fiscal year 2026. Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization in paragraph (1), $216,000,000 shall be available in each fiscal year to carry out the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership under sections 25 and 25A of such Act (15 U.S.C. 278k and 278k–1), of which $40,000,000 shall not be subject to cost share requirements under subsection (e)(2) of such section: Provided, That the authority made available pursuant to this section shall be elective for any Manufacturing Extension Partnership Center that also receives funding from a State that is conditioned upon the application of a Federal cost sharing requirement. Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization in paragraph (1), $264,000,000 shall be available each fiscal year to carry out section 25B of such Act, as added by subsection (a).
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Establishment of expansion awards program in Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership and authorization of appropriations for the Partnership
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