[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3168]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1689. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       In section 2102, strike subsection (c) and insert the 
     following:
       (c) Activities.--The Directorate--
       (1) shall support basic research, including through awards 
     to individual researchers, entities, or consortia and through 
     diverse funding mechanisms and models;
       (2) shall identify and develop opportunities to coordinate 
     and collaborate on research--
       (A) with other directorates and offices of the Foundation;
       (B) with stakeholders in academia, the private sector, and 
     nonprofit entities; and
       (C) with other Federal research agencies, as well as State 
     and local governments;
       (3) shall provide awards for research and development 
     projects designed to achieve specific technology metrics or 
     objectives;
       (4) shall identify and develop opportunities to reduce 
     barriers for technology transfer, including intellectual 
     property frameworks between academia and industry, nonprofit 
     entities, and the venture capital communities;
       (5) shall partner with other directorates and offices of 
     the Foundation for projects or research, including--
       (A) to pursue basic questions about natural, human, and 
     physical phenomena that could enable advances in the key 
     technology focus areas;
       (B) to study questions that could affect the design 
     (including human interfaces), safety, security, operation, 
     deployment, or the social and ethical consequences of 
     technologies in the key technology focus areas; and
       (C) to further the creation of a domestic workforce capable 
     of advancing, using, and adapting to key technology focus 
     areas and understanding and improving the impact of key 
     technology focus areas on STEM teaching and learning by 
     advancing the key technology focus areas, including engaging 
     relevant partners in research and innovation programs; and
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