Sec. 301. National Institute of Standards and Technology activities
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As part of the Initiative, the Director shall— support measurement research and development of best practices and voluntary consensus standards for unmanned aircraft systems, including for— privacy, security, and cybersecurity of unmanned aircraft systems; safety of unmanned aircraft systems; hardware and components designed for unmanned aircraft systems; data management and techniques to increase the usability of data for unmanned aircraft systems; supply chain risks for unmanned aircraft systems; and all other areas deemed by the Director to be critical to the development and deployment of unmanned aircraft systems; support one or more Institutes as described in section 201(a) of this Act for the purpose of advancing unmanned aircraft systems; produce curated, standardized, representative, secure, and privacy protected data sets for unmanned aircraft systems research, development, and use, prioritizing data for high-value, high-risk research; support and strategically engage in the development of voluntary consensus standards, including international standards, through open, transparent, and consensus-based processes; enter into and perform such contracts, including cooperative research and development arrangements and grants and cooperative agreements or other transactions, as may be necessary in the conduct of the work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and on such terms as the Director considers appropriate, in furtherance of the purposes of this Act; and coordinate the development of voluntary and consensus standards and best practices with other Federal agencies as appropriate.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director shall, in collaboration with other public and private sector organizations, develop guidance to facilitate the creation of voluntary data sharing arrangements between industry, federally funded research centers, and Federal agencies for the purpose of advancing unmanned aircraft systems research and technologies, including options for partnership models between government entities, industry, universities, and nonprofits that incentivize each party to share the data they collected.
The Director shall also ensure that data are archived in a manner to in order to promote findability, interoperability, analysis- and decision-readiness and reusability of historical and near real time data across Federal, State, Tribal, local users, including ensuring digital access and machine-readability. In carrying out the activities under this subsection, the Director shall— solicit input from university researchers, private sector experts, relevant Federal agencies, Federal laboratories, State, local, and Tribal governments, civil society groups, and other relevant stakeholders; and provide opportunity for public comment on guidelines and best practices developed as part of the Initiative, as appropriate.
Pursuant to section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3719 ), the Director shall, subject to appropriations, carry out a program to award prizes competitively to stimulate research and development of innovative unmanned aircraft systems technologies in order to expand upon and improve emergency response operations. Each prize competition entry submitted pursuant to paragraph
(1)shall include a plan for unmanned aircraft systems implementation in emergency response operations. In carrying out the program under paragraph (1), the Director may award not more than a total of $2,250,000 to one or more winners of the prize competition. Not later than 60 days after the date on which a prize is awarded under the prize competition, the Director shall submit to the relevant committees of Congress a report that describes the winning entry of the prize competition. In carrying out the program under subsection (a), the Director may consult with the heads of relevant departments and agencies of the Federal Government. There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Institute of Standards and Technology to carry out this section— $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2024; $22,050,000 for fiscal year 2025; $23,152,500 for fiscal year 2026; and $24,310,125 for fiscal year 2027.
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