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§6603 Sense of Congress on Innovation Acceleration Research

Title 42 › CHAPTER 79 — SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, ORGANIZATION AND PRIORITIES › SUBCHAPTER I — NATIONAL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY AND PRIORITIES › § 6603

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Federal research agencies should try to boost innovation by supporting high‑risk, high‑reward basic research. These projects should solve major scientific or technical challenges, involve work across different fields, and be very new. Agencies that fund STEM research should set a goal to put an appropriate share of their annual basic research budget into these projects. Basic research — meaning given in Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A–11. Executive agency — meaning given in section 105 of title 5.

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Title 42, §6603

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

(a)Sense of Congress on support and promotion of innovation in the United States
It is the sense of Congress that each Federal research agency should strive to support and promote innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward basic research projects that—
(1)meet fundamental technological or scientific challenges;
(2)involve multidisciplinary work; and
(3)involve a high degree of novelty.
(b)Sense of Congress on setting annual funding goals for basic research
It is the sense of Congress that each Executive agency that funds research in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics should set a goal of allocating an appropriate percentage of the annual basic research budget of such agency to funding high-risk, high-reward basic research projects described in subsection (a).
(c)Definitions
In this section: (1) Basic research
(2)Executive agency
The term “Executive agency” has the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the America COMPETES Act, also known as the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act, and not as part of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

2017—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 114–329 redesignated subsec. (d) as (c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which related to annual reports to Congress.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 6603

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110