3.0.0 3832 2023-01-11T13:42:36Z 2023-01-11T13:42:36Z Senate S 2020-05-21 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-05-21T20:31:22Z Endless Frontier Act 116 6978 HR 2020-05-22 Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Identical bill CRS 2020-05-21 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S2597-2604) IntroReferral 2020-05-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. N Y000064 Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] Todd Young R IN C. 2020-05-21 True P000595 Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] Gary Peters D MI 2020-08-13 False D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT 2020-08-13 False M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2020-08-13 False C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2020-08-13 False H001076 Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] Maggie Hassan D NH 2020-08-13 False M001197 Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ] Martha McSally R AZ 2020-08-13 False Science, Technology, Communications Advanced technology and technological innovations Advisory bodies Business investment and capital Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits Computers and information technology Congressional oversight Education programs funding Energy research Executive agency funding and structure Federal officials Government lending and loan guarantees Higher education Infrastructure development Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Manufacturing Materials Military procurement, research, weapons development National Science Foundation Performance measurement Public contracts and procurement Public-private cooperation Research administration and funding Research and development Science and engineering education Small business Student aid and college costs Technology assessment Technology transfer and commercialization Science, Technology, Communications 00 2020-05-21 Introduced in Senate 2020-11-02T20:46:41Z Endless Frontier Act

This bill redesignates the National Science Foundation as the National Science and Technology Foundation and establishes a Directorate for Technology within the foundation.

The goals of the directorate shall be to (1) strengthen U.S. leadership in critical technologies through fundamental research in key technology focus areas, such as artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and advanced manufacturing; (2) enhance U.S. competitiveness in the focus areas by improving education in such areas and attracting more students to such areas; and (3) foster the impact of federally funded research and development through accelerated translation of advances in the focus areas into processes and products that help achieve national goals.

The Department of Commerce shall carry out a program to designate and support eligible consortia as regional technology hubs that facilitate activities that (1) enable U.S. leadership in a key technology focus area, and (2) support regional economic development that diffuses innovation capacity around the United States.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy, Commerce, the National Security Council, and other relevant federal agencies shall (1) review the national security strategy and programs and resources pertaining to U.S. national competitiveness in science, research, and innovation to support such strategy; and (2) develop a strategy for the federal government to improve such competitiveness to support the national security strategy.

]]> Endless Frontier Act Display Title Endless Frontier Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Endless Frontier Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish a new Directorate for Technology in the redesignated National Science and Technology Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, and innovation, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3832is/xml/BILLS-116s3832is.xml 2020-05-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S2597-2604) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.