Sec. 3. Program activities
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The Program shall consist of the activities described under section 6, which shall be designed— to support research and development, including interdisciplinary research, related to fire environments, wildland fires, associated smoke, and their impacts, in furtherance of a coordinated interagency effort to address wildland fire risk reduction; to support data management and stewardship, and the development and coordination of data systems and computational tools to accelerate the understanding of fire environments, wildland fires, associated smoke, and their impacts; to support the development of novel tools and technologies to improve understanding, monitoring, prediction, and mitigation of wildland fires, associated smoke, and their impacts; to support education and training to expand the number of students and researchers in areas of study and research related to wildland fires; to accelerate the translation of research related to wildland fires and associated smoke into operations to reduce harm to communities, buildings, and other infrastructure; to conduct communication and outreach regarding wildland fire science and wildland fire risk mitigation, to communities, energy utilities and operators of other critical infrastructure, and other relevant stakeholders; to support research and development projects funded under joint solicitations or through memoranda of understanding between no fewer than two agencies participating in the Program; and to disseminate, to the extent practicable, scientific data and related products and services in formats meeting shared standards to enhance the interoperability, usability, and accessibility of Program Agency data in order to better meet the needs of Program agencies, other Federal agencies, and relevant stakeholders.