42 U.S.C. § 19060 — Risk and resilience research

The Director^* must make competitive awards to colleges or nonprofits, including groups of them, to advance knowledge of how to assess and predict risk, and to build tools and technologies — including better data analytics and use of artificial intelligence — for greater resilience. This covers: improving our ability to understand, model, and predict extreme events and natural hazards; creating new engineered systems for resilient, complex infrastructure, especially addressing how different infrastructures depend on each other and increasingly involve cyber, physical, and social components; developing equipment and instruments for innovation in resilient engineered infrastructure; multidisciplinary research on how individuals and communities detect, understand, predict, assess, reduce, and prevent risks, and how they can become more resilient; and advances in multidisciplinary wildfire science, including its effects on air quality, human behavior, and early detection and warning.