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§18994 Stem Workforce Data

Title 42 › CHAPTER 163 — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE › Part B — STEM Education › § 18994

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director must carry out a full review, within one year after August 9, 2022, of the Foundation’s skilled technical workforce investments across all Directorates in education, research, infrastructure, data collection, and analysis. Within 180 days after that review is finished, the Director must send a short summary of the review to Congress and make it widely available to the public. The Director must study whether to add rotating topic modules to National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics surveys, working with other federal statistical agencies and stakeholders. Within one year after August 9, 2022, the Director must give Congress and the Board the results of an assessment about adding new questions on topics including the skilled technical workforce, work conditions and work-life balance, harassment and discrimination, immigration and emigration, and other topics the Director chooses. The Director must also keep improving the surveys for long-term (longitudinal) research. The Comptroller General must send a report to Congress within one year after August 9, 2022, evaluating how the Foundation ensures its data meet current and future needs and offering any recommendations.

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Title 42, §18994

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(a)Skilled technical workforce portfolio review

(1)In general

Not later than 1 year after August 9, 2022, the Director shall conduct a full portfolio analysis of the Foundation’s skilled technical workforce investments across all Directorates in the areas of education, research, infrastructure, data collection, and analysis.

(2)Report

Not later than 180 days after the date of the review under paragraph (1) is complete, the Director shall submit to Congress and make widely available to the public a summary report of the portfolio review.

(b)Survey data

(1)Rotating topic modules

To meet evolving needs for data on the state of the science and engineering workforce, the Director shall assess, through coordination with other Federal statistical agencies and drawing on input from relevant stakeholders, the feasibility and benefits of incorporating questions or topic modules to existing National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics surveys that would vary from cycle to cycle.

(2)New data

Not later than 1 year after August 9, 2022, the Director shall submit to Congress and the Board the results of an assessment, carried out in coordination with other Federal agencies and with input from relevant stakeholders, of the feasibility and benefits of incorporating new questions or topic modules to existing National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics surveys on—

(A)the skilled technical workforce;

(B)working conditions and work-life balance;

(C)harassment and discrimination;

(D)immigration and emigration; and

(E)any other topics at the discretion of the Director.

(3)Longitudinal design

The Director shall continue and accelerate efforts to enhance the usefulness of National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics survey data for longitudinal research and analysis.

(4)Government Accountability Office review

Not later than 1 year after August 9, 2022, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report to Congress that—

(A)evaluates Foundation processes for ensuring the data and analysis produced by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics meets current and future needs; and

(B)includes such recommendations as the Comptroller General determines are appropriate to improve such processes.

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42 U.S.C. § 18994

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110