Sec. 902. Partnerships for research, development, demonstration, and testing
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The Administrator shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Public Administration to examine Administration research, development, demonstration, and testing partnerships to advance unmanned aircraft systems and advanced air mobility and to facilitate the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system. The study in subsection
(a)shall— identify existing Administration partnerships with external entities, including academia and Centers of Excellence, industry, and nonprofit organizations, and the types of such partnership arrangements; examine the partnerships in paragraph (1), including the scope and areas of research, development, demonstration, and testing carried out, and associated arrangements for performing research and development activities; review the extent to which the Administration uses the results and outcomes of each partnership to advance the research and development in unmanned aircraft systems; identify additional research and development areas, if any, that may benefit from partnership arrangements, and whether such research and development would require new partnerships; identify any duplication of ongoing or planned research, development, demonstration, or testing activities; identify effective and appropriate means for publication and dissemination of the results and sharing with the public, commercial, and research communities related data from such research, development, demonstration, and testing conducted under such partnerships; identify effective mechanisms, either new or already existing, to facilitate coordination, evaluation, and information-sharing among and between such partnerships; identify effective and appropriate means for facilitating technology transfer activities within such partnerships; identify the extent to which such partnerships broaden participation from groups historically underrepresented in STEM and include participation by industry, workforce, and labor organizations; and review options for funding models best suited for such partnerships, which may include cost-sharing and public-private partnership models with industry. The Administrator shall transmit the study directed in subsection
(a)to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this Act.