To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 to prohibit certain institutions of higher education from receiving research and development awards, and for other purposes.

Colleges barred from federal research awards

If enacted, this bill would bar a college or university from getting a federal research and development award for five years after it receives money from a covered foreign source to do certain work. Covered foreign sources would include governments such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Turkey, and Qatar. Covered foreign sources would also include entities those governments create, entities they own 25% or more of, and agents like subsidiaries, foundations, or educational and cultural entities. The banned work would be research and development tied to national-security or military uses, including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum information science. The Secretary of State would be able to add more countries to the covered list.