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

§19152 Collection and Reporting of Data on Federal Research Awards

Title 42 › Chapter 163— RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION › Subchapter V— BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN SCIENCE › Part A— STEM Opportunities › § 19152

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The NSF Director, with agency heads, will create and update rules so federal research agencies collect the same yearly, record-level data on all merit-reviewed research and development award applications. The data must cover demographics, field, award and institution type, review rating, requested budget, funding outcome, and awarded budget. Within two years of those rules, and every year after, agencies must send the records to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics; first submissions should include the prior five years if available. NSF will publish summary statistics broken down by race, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic measures, location, and years since doctorate.

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Title 42, §19152

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(a)(1)Each Federal research agency shall collect, as practicable, with respect to all applications for merit-reviewed research and development awards made by such agency, standardized record-level annual information on demographics, primary field, award type, institution type, review rating, budget request, funding outcome, and awarded budget.

(2)The Director, in consultation with the heads of each Federal research agency, shall establish, and update as necessary, a policy to ensure uniformity and standardization of the data collection required under paragraph (1).

(3)(A)Beginning not later than two years after the issuance of the policy under paragraph (2) to Federal research agencies, and on an annual basis thereafter, each Federal research agency shall submit to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics record-level data collected under paragraph (1) in the form required by the Director of the National Science Foundation.

(B)As part of the first submission under subparagraph (A), each Federal research agency, to the extent practicable, shall also submit comparable record-level data, if it is available to the agency, for the five years preceding the date of such submission, or an analysis for why such data cannot be provided.

(b)The Director of the National Science Foundation shall publish statistical summary data, as practicable, collected under this section, disaggregated and cross-tabulated by race, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic indicators, which may include employment status, occupation, educational attainment, parental education, and income, geographic location, and years since completion of doctoral degree, including in conjunction with the National Science Foundation’s report required by section 1885d of this title.

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42 U.S.C. § 19152

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60