15 U.S.C. § 278r — Collaborative manufacturing research pilot grants
submitted 125 years ago by Pub. L. 110-69 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 369 words · no verdicts yet
This law lets NIST's Director start a one-time pilot grant program for manufacturing research partnerships. Each partnership needs at least one manufacturing company and one non-industry partner. Awards last three years and cover at most a third of the partnership's costs.
(a) Authority
(1) Establishment: The Director must create a pilot program that gives grants to partnerships. Winners are picked through peer review and competition.
(2) Participants: Each partnership must include at least one manufacturing company and at least one partner that isn't in the manufacturing industry.
(3) Purpose: The program's goal is to get companies, schools, research groups, state agencies, and nonprofits to work together and share costs. Together they aim to invent new, multidisciplinary manufacturing technology. Partnerships that win awards must do applied research on new manufacturing processes, techniques, or materials. That research should make US manufacturing perform better, produce more, and compete better. It should also build lasting partnerships among the collaborators.
(b) Program contribution
A grant under this section can pay for at most one-third of a partnership's costs. Another one-third, at most, can come from other federal sources. That means at least one-third must come from somewhere other than federal money.
(c) Applications
The Director decides how, when, and what information partnerships must submit to apply. Every application must explain, at minimum:
(1) how each partner will help develop and carry out the research plan;
(2) what research the grant money would fund; and
(3) how that research would improve the performance, productivity, and competitiveness of US manufacturing.
(d) Selection criteria
When picking which applications to fund, the Director must consider at least:
(1) how broadly the project would affect manufacturing;
(2) how new, scientifically sound, and technically strong the project is; and
(3) whether the applicants have shown they can actually carry out the research.
(e) Distribution
As much as practical, the Director must spread the awards across different manufacturing industries and different sizes of companies.
(f) Duration
The Director runs this program as a single pilot competition — one round of soliciting and awarding grants. Each award lasts three years.
The Director shall establish a pilot program of awards to partnerships among participants described in paragraph (2) for the purposes described in paragraph (3). Awards shall be made on a peer-reviewed, competitive basis.
Such partnerships shall include at least—
1 manufacturing industry partner; and
1 nonindustry partner.
The purpose of the program under this section is to foster cost-shared collaborations among firms, educational institutions, research institutions, State agencies, and nonprofit organizations to encourage the development of innovative, multidisciplinary manufacturing technologies. Partnerships receiving awards under this section shall conduct applied research to develop new manufacturing processes, techniques, or materials that would contribute to improved performance, productivity, and competitiveness of United States manufacturing, and build lasting alliances among collaborators.
Awards under this section shall provide for not more than one-third of the costs of a partnership. Not more than an additional one-third of such costs may be obtained directly or indirectly from other Federal sources.
Applications for awards under this section shall be submitted in such manner, at such time, and containing such information as the Director shall require. Such applications shall describe at a minimum—
how each partner will participate in developing and carrying out the research agenda of the partnership;
the research that the grant would fund; and
how the research to be funded with the award would contribute to improved performance, productivity, and competitiveness of the United States manufacturing industry.
In selecting applications for awards under this section, the Director shall consider at a minimum—
the degree to which projects will have a broad impact on manufacturing;
the novelty and scientific and technical merit of the proposed projects; and
the demonstrated capabilities of the applicants to successfully carry out the proposed research.
In selecting applications under this section the Director shall ensure, to the extent practicable, a distribution of overall awards among a variety of manufacturing industry sectors and a range of firm sizes.
In carrying out this section, the Director shall run a single pilot competition to solicit and make awards. Each award shall be for a 3-year period.
Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 33, as added Pub. L. 110–69, title III, § 3007(2), Aug. 9, 2007, 121 Stat. 591.)
- 1901Enacted · Pub. L. 110-69 · 121 Stat. 591
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