Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§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 Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director must give competitive grants to colleges, universities, nonprofits, or groups of them to improve how we study and reduce risk, including better data analysis and use of artificial intelligence. The grants cover five areas: predicting extreme events; new engineered fixes for connected infrastructures and parts that mix digital systems, machines, and people; equipment for stronger infrastructure; research on how people and communities respond to risk; and improved wildfire science, including air quality and early warning.

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Title 42, §19060

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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.

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42 U.S.C. § 19060

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102