§19152 Collection and reporting of data on Federal research awards

Summary

Federal research agencies must gather, when possible, yearly details for each merit-reviewed research or development award application. The data must include who applied (demographics), the main subject area, the kind of award and institution, review score, the budget asked for, whether it got funded, and the money awarded. The Director of the National Science Foundation, working with agency leaders, must make a standard rule for collecting the data. Within two years of that rule, and every year after, agencies must send the application-level data to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics in the format the NSF Director requires. The first filing should also include, if available, the same data for the five prior years or explain why it cannot. The NSF must publish summary statistics broken down by race, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic measures (like job, education, parents’ education, and income), location, and years since earning a doctoral degree, and include them in its required report.