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§2795 University-based Research Collaboration Program

Title 50 › Chapter 42— ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROVISIONS › Subchapter VIII— ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS › Part B— Research and Development › § 2795

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must create a university program at a place that best brings together national laboratories, colleges and universities, and industry. The program must help move science and engineering forward for key Department of Energy defense and national security work. Congress found three things: keeping U.S. science and engineering skills is vital to long-term national security and DOE defense work; involving universities in long-term research will help solve future technology challenges for those programs; and better teamwork among labs, schools, and industry will make DOE missions more successful.

Full Legal Text

Title 50, §2795

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(a)Congress makes the following findings:
(1)The maintenance of scientific and engineering competence in the United States is vital to long-term national security and the defense and national security missions of the Department of Energy.
(2)Engaging the universities and colleges of the Nation in research on long-range problems of vital national security interest will be critical to solving the technology challenges faced within the defense and national security programs of the Department of Energy in the next century.
(3)Enhancing collaboration among the national laboratories, universities and colleges, and industry will contribute significantly to the performance of these Department of Energy missions.
(b)The Secretary of Energy shall establish a university program at a location that can develop the most effective collaboration among national laboratories, universities and colleges, and industry in support of scientific and engineering advancement in key Department of Energy defense and national security program areas.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly set out as a note under section 7381 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 108–136.

Amendments

2013—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 112–239 struck out subsec. (c). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “Of the funds authorized to be appropriated in title XXXI of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105–85) to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 1998, the Secretary shall make $5,000,000 available for the establishment and operation of the program under subsection (b).” 2003—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–136, § 3141(k)(9)(D), substituted “title XXXI of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105–85)” for “this title”.

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Citation

50 U.S.C. § 2795

Title 50 — War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60