H. R. 5116 
One Hundred Eleventh Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten 
An Act 
To invest in innovation through research and development, to improve the competi-
tiveness of the United States, and for other purposes. 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—this Act may be cited as the ‘‘America COM-
PETES Reauthorization Act of 2010’’ or the ‘‘America Creating 
Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, 
Education, and Science Reauthorization Act of 2010’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
Sec. 3. Budgetary impact statement. 
TITLE I—OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 
Sec. 101. Coordination of Federal STEM education. 
Sec. 102. Coordination of advanced manufacturing research and development. 
Sec. 103. Interagency public access committee. 
Sec. 104. Federal scientific collections. 
Sec. 105. Prize competitions. 
TITLE II—NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
Sec. 201. NASA’s contribution to innovation and competitiveness. 
Sec. 202. NASA’s contribution to education. 
Sec. 203. Assessment of impediments to space science and engineering workforce 
development for minority and under-represented groups at NASA. 
Sec. 204. International Space Station’s contribution to national competitiveness en-
hancement. 
Sec. 205. Study of potential commercial orbital platform program impact on 
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. 
Sec. 206. Definitions. 
TITLE III—NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION 
Sec. 301. Oceanic and atmospheric research and development program. 
Sec. 302. Oceanic and atmospheric science education programs. 
Sec. 303. Workforce study. 
TITLE IV—NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY 
Sec. 401. Short title. 
Sec. 402. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 403. Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology. 
Sec. 404. Manufacturing Extension Partnership. 
Sec. 405. Emergency communication and tracking technologies research initiative. 
Sec. 406. Broadening participation. 
Sec. 407. NIST Fellowships. 
Sec. 408. Green manufacturing and construction. 
Sec. 409. Definitions.
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TITLE V—SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS 
SUPPORT PROGRAMS 
SUBTITLE A—NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
Sec. 501. Short title. 
Sec. 502. Definitions. 
Sec. 503. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 504. National Science Board administrative amendments. 
Sec. 505. National Center for Science and Engineering statistics. 
Sec. 506. National Science Foundation manufacturing research and education. 
Sec. 507. National Science Board report on mid-scale instrumentation. 
Sec. 508. Partnerships for innovation. 
Sec. 509. Sustainable chemistry basic research. 
Sec. 510. Graduate student support. 
Sec. 511. Robert Noyce teacher scholarship program. 
Sec. 512. Undergraduate broadening participation program. 
Sec. 513. Research experiences for high school students. 
Sec. 514. Research experiences for undergraduates. 
Sec. 515. STEM industry internship programs. 
Sec. 516. Cyber-enabled learning for national challenges. 
Sec. 517. Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. 
Sec. 518. Sense of the Congress regarding the science, technology, engineering, and 
mathematics talent expansion program. 
Sec. 519. Sense of the Congress regarding the National Science Foundation’s con-
tributions to basic research and education. 
Sec. 520. Academic technology transfer and commercialization of university re-
search. 
Sec. 521. Study to develop improved impact-on-society metrics. 
Sec. 522. NSF grants in support of sponsored post-doctoral fellowship programs. 
Sec. 523. Collaboration in planning for stewardship of large-scale facilities. 
Sec. 524. Cloud computing research enhancement. 
Sec. 525. Tribal colleges and universities program. 
Sec. 526. Broader impacts review criterion. 
Sec. 527. Twenty-first century graduate education. 
SUBTITLE B—STEM-TRAINING GRANT PROGRAM 
Sec. 551. Purpose. 
Sec. 552. Program requirements. 
Sec. 553. Grant program. 
Sec. 554. Grant oversight and administration. 
Sec. 555. Definitions. 
Sec. 556. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE VI—INNOVATION 
Sec. 601. Office of innovation and entrepreneurship. 
Sec. 602. Federal loan guarantees for innovative technologies in manufacturing. 
Sec. 603. Regional innovation program. 
Sec. 604. Study on economic competitiveness and innovative capacity of United 
States and development of national economic competitiveness strategy. 
Sec. 605. Promoting use of high-end computing simulation and modeling by small- 
and medium-sized manufacturers. 
TITLE VII—NIST GREEN JOBS 
Sec. 701. Short title. 
Sec. 702. Findings. 
Sec. 703. National Institute of Standards and Technology competitive grant pro-
gram. 
TITLE VIII—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 801. Government Accountability Office review. 
Sec. 802. Salary restrictions. 
Sec. 803. Additional research authorities of the FCC. 
TITLE IX—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
Sec. 901. Science, engineering, and mathematics education programs. 
Sec. 902. Energy research programs. 
Sec. 903. Basic research. 
Sec. 904. Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy. 
TITLE X—EDUCATION 
Sec. 1001. References
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Sec. 1002. Repeals and conforming amendments. 
Sec. 1003. Authorizations of appropriations and matching requirement. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) DIRECTOR.—In title I, the term ‘‘Director’’ means the 
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. 
(2) STEM.—The term ‘‘STEM’’ means the academic and 
professional disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and 
mathematics. 
SEC. 3. BUDGETARY IMPACT STATEMENT. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, shall be determined 
by reference to the latest statement titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of 
PAYGO Legislation’’ for this Act, submitted for printing in the 
Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Senate Budget Com-
mittee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior 
to the vote on passage. 
TITLE I—OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY POLICY 
SEC. 101. COORDINATION OF FEDERAL STEM EDUCATION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director shall establish a committee 
under the National Science and Technology Council, including the 
Office of Management and Budget, with the responsibility to coordi-
nate Federal programs and activities in support of STEM education, 
including at the National Science Foundation, the Department of 
Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department 
of Education, and all other Federal agencies that have programs 
and activities in support of STEM education. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The committee established under sub-
section (a) shall— 
(1) coordinate the STEM education activities and programs 
of the Federal agencies; 
(2) coordinate STEM education activities and programs 
with the Office of Management and Budget; 
(3) encourage the teaching of innovation and entrepreneur-
ship as part of STEM education activities; 
(4) review STEM education activities and programs to 
ensure they are not duplicative of similar efforts within the 
Federal government; 
(5) develop, implement through the participating agencies, 
and update once every 5 years a 5-year STEM education stra-
tegic plan, which shall— 
(A) specify and prioritize annual and long-term objec-
tives; 
(B) specify the common metrics that will be used to 
assess progress toward achieving the objectives; 
(C) describe the approaches that will be taken by each 
participating agency to assess the effectiveness of its STEM 
education programs and activities; and 
(D) with respect to subparagraph (A), describe the 
role of each agency in supporting programs and activities 
designed to achieve the objectives; and