42 U.S.C. § 13506 — Definitions

For this subchapter: (1) "Advanced manufacturing technology" means processes, equipment, techniques, and skills used to (A) make a product's design, testing, or manufacture more productive, higher-quality, or more energy-efficient, or (B) build the technical ability to design, develop, test, or make a product that is fundamentally different from existing products and that improves energy efficiency. (2) "Advanced materials" means materials processed or built to have high-performance properties — for structural, electronic, magnetic, or photonic uses, or for joining and packaging parts — that exceed what conventional materials can do. This includes: (A) advanced single materials like metals, ceramics, and polymers; (B) advanced composite materials, such as metal-matrix, polymer-matrix, ceramic-matrix, continuous-fiber ceramic, and carbon-matrix composites; and (C) advanced electronic, magnetic, and photonic materials — including superconducting, semiconductor, electro-optic, magneto-optic, thin-film, and special coating materials used for energy efficiency, renewable energy, or electric power. (3) "United States" means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other U.S. territory or possession.