§3710b Rewards for scientific, engineering, and technical personnel of Federal agencies

Summary

Heads of federal agencies that spend more than $50,000,000 per fiscal year on research and development in their Government-operated laboratories must use their legal authority to create and run a cash awards program for their scientific, engineering, and technical staff. The program must pay staff for either major inventions, innovations, computer software, or other important scientific or technical work that helps the United States through commercial use or by supporting the agency’s mission, or for outstanding efforts that move federal science and technology into use by American industry, universities, state or local governments, or other non‑federal groups.