Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§19060 Risk and Resilience Research

Title 42 › Chapter 163— RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION › Subchapter III— NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE › Part E— Fundamental Research › § 19060

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director must give competitive grants to colleges, nonprofits, or groups of them to improve how we study risks and to create tools and technologies, including data analysis and artificial intelligence, that make communities and systems more resilient. The grants must fund five areas: better ways to model and predict extreme events; new designed fixes for connected important systems (like power, water, and transport) and systems that mix computers, physical parts, and people; new equipment for resilient systems; research on how people and communities notice and respond to risk; and improved wildfire science, including air quality, human behavior, and early warning.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §19060

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Director shall make awards on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education or non-profit organizations (or consortia of such institutions or organizations) to advance knowledge of risk assessment and predictability and to support the creation of tools and technologies, including advancing data analytics and utilization of artificial intelligence, for increased resilience through—

(1)improvements in our ability to understand, model, and predict extreme events and natural hazards;

(2)the creation of novel engineered systems solutions for resilient complex infrastructures, particularly those that address critical interdependence among infrastructures and leverage the growing infusion of cyber-physical-social components into the infrastructures;

(3)development of equipment and instrumentation for innovation in resilient engineered infrastructures;

(4)multidisciplinary research on the behaviors individuals and communities engage in to detect, perceive, understand, predict, assess, mitigate, and prevent risks and to improve and increase resilience; and

(5)advancements in multidisciplinary wildfire science, including those related to air quality impacts, human behavior, and early detection and warning.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

42 U.S.C. § 19060

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60