S.Amdt. 1689

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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