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Title 49, TransportationRelease 119-110

§44512 Catastrophic Failure Prevention Research Grants

Title 49 › SUBTITLE VII — AVIATION PROGRAMS › PART A — AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY › subpart iii — safety › CHAPTER 445 — FACILITIES, PERSONNEL, AND RESEARCH › § 44512

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The FAA may give grants to colleges and nonprofit research groups to develop tools and methods to detect and prevent problems in parts, products, and manufacturing for airplanes, engines, propellers, and related equipment that could lead to a crash that destroys the aircraft. The FAA must create a way to request proposals, review applications, and choose projects that have enough merit and are clearly relevant to that research.

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Title 49, §44512

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(a)General Authority.—
The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may make grants to institutions of higher education and nonprofit research organizations—
(1)to conduct aviation research related to the development of technologies and methods to assess the risk of, and prevent, defects, failures, and malfunctions of products, parts, processes, and articles manufactured for use in aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, and appliances that could result in a catastrophic failure of an aircraft; and
(2)to establish centers of excellence for continuing the research.
(b)Solicitation, Application, Review, and Evaluation Process.—
The Administrator shall establish a solicitation, application, review, and evaluation process that ensures providing grants under this section for proposals having adequate merit and relevancy to the research described in subsection (a) of this section.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4451249 App.:1353(h).Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, 72 Stat. 731, § 312(h); added Nov. 5, 1990, Pub. L. 101–508, § 9208(b), 104 Stat. 1388–376. In this section, the words “institutions of higher education” are substituted for “colleges, universities” for consistency in the revised title. In subsection (b), the words “providing grants” are substituted for “the funding” for consistency in the revised title.

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Citation

49 U.S.C. § 44512

Title 49, Transportation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110