Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part E · Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation
§ 19060. Risk and resilience research
Statutory text
The Director shall make awards on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education or non-profit organizations (or consortia of such institutions or organizations) to advance knowledge of risk assessment and predictability and to support the creation of tools and technologies, including advancing data analytics and utilization of artificial intelligence, for increased resilience through—
improvements in our ability to understand, model, and predict extreme events and natural hazards;
the creation of novel engineered systems solutions for resilient complex infrastructures, particularly those that address critical interdependence among infrastructures and leverage the growing infusion of cyber-physical-social components into the infrastructures;
development of equipment and instrumentation for innovation in resilient engineered infrastructures;
multidisciplinary research on the behaviors individuals and communities engage in to detect, perceive, understand, predict, assess, mitigate, and prevent risks and to improve and increase resilience; and
advancements in multidisciplinary wildfire science, including those related to air quality impacts, human behavior, and early detection and warning.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act
Pub. L. 117–167 div. B title III § 10351 · 136 Stat. 1366
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 19060
(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10351, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1561.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10351, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1561.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 10351. RISK AND RESILIENCE RESEARCH. The Director shall make awards on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education or non-profit organizations (or consortia of such institutions or organizations) to advance knowledge of risk assessment and predictability and to support the creation of tools and technologies, including advancing data analytics and utilization of artificial intelligence, for increased resilience through— (1) improvements in our ability to understand, model, and predict extreme events and natural hazards; (2) the creation of novel engineered systems solutions for resilient complex infrastructures, particularly those that address critical interdependence among infrastructures and leverage the growing infusion of cyber-physical-social components into the infrastructures; (3) development of equipment and instrumentation for innovation in resilient engineered infrastructures; (4) multidisciplinary research on the behaviors individuals and communities engage in to detect, perceive, understand, predict, assess, mitigate, and prevent risks and to improve and increase resilience; and (5) advancements in multidisciplinary wildfire science, including those related to air quality impacts, human behavior, and early detection and warning.
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