CATION NETWORK’’ and inserting ‘‘RE-
SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’’; 
(2) in section 101—
(A) the section heading, by striking ‘‘NA-
TIONAL
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
COM-
PUTING’’ and inserting ‘‘HIGH-PERFORM-
ANCE COMPUTING RESEARCH AND DEVEL-
OPMENT’’; 
(B) in subsection (a)—
(i) in the subsection heading, by strik-
ing 
‘‘NATIONAL
HIGH-PERFORMANCE 
COMPUTING’’ and inserting ‘‘HIGH-PER-
FORMANCE COMPUTING RESEARCH
AND 
DEVELOPMENT’’; 
(ii) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) 
and inserting the following: ‘‘(1) The 
President shall implement a High-Perform-
ance Computing Research and Develop-
ment Program, which shall—
‘‘(A) provide for long-term basic and applied re-
search on high-performance computing; 
‘‘(B) provide for research and development on, 
and demonstration of, technologies to advance the 
capacity and capabilities of high-performance com-
puting and networking systems;
‘‘(C) provide for sustained access by the re-
search community in the United States to high-per-
formance computing systems that are among the 
most advanced in the world in terms of performance 
in solving scientific and engineering problems, in-
cluding provision for technical support for users of 
such systems; 
‘‘(D) provide for efforts to increase software 
availability, productivity, capability, security, port-
ability, and reliability; 
‘‘(E) provide for high-performance networks, in-
cluding experimental testbed networks, to enable re-
search and development on, and demonstration of, 
advanced applications enabled by such networks; 
‘‘(F) provide for computational science and en-
gineering research on mathematical modeling and al-
gorithms for applications in all fields of science and 
engineering; 
‘‘(G) provide for the technical support of, and 
research and development on, high-performance 
computing systems and software required to address 
Grand Challenges; 
‘‘(H) provide for educating and training addi-
tional undergraduate and graduate students in soft-
ware engineering, computer science, computer and
network security, applied mathematics, library and 
information science, and computational science; and 
‘‘(I) provide for improving the security of com-
puting and networking systems, including Federal 
systems, including research required to establish se-
curity standards and practices for these systems.’’; 
(iii) by redesignating paragraphs (3) 
and (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respec-
tively; 
(iv) in paragraph (2), as so redesig-
nated by clause (iii) of this subpara-
graph—
(I) by striking subparagraph (B); 
(II) by redesignating subpara-
graphs (A) and (C) as subparagraphs 
(D) and (F), respectively; 
(III) by inserting before subpara-
graph (D), as so redesignated by sub-
clause (II) of this clause, the following 
new subparagraphs: 
‘‘(A) establish the goals and priorities for Fed-
eral high-performance computing research, develop-
ment, networking, and other activities; 
‘‘(B) establish Program Component Areas that 
implement the goals established under subparagraph
(A), and identify the Grand Challenges that the Pro-
gram should address; 
‘‘(C) provide for interagency coordination of 
Federal high-performance computing research, devel-
opment, networking, and other activities undertaken 
pursuant to the Program;’’; and 
(IV) by inserting after subparagraph 
(D), as so redesignated by subclause (II) 
of this clause, the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(E) develop and maintain a research, develop-
ment, and deployment roadmap for the provision of 
high-performance computing systems under para-
graph (1)(C); and’’; and 
(v) in paragraph (3), as so redesig-
nated by clause (iii) of this subpara-
graph—
(I) 
by 
striking 
‘‘paragraph 
(3)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 
(2)(D)’’; 
(II) by amending subparagraph 
(A) to read as follows: 
‘‘(A) provide a detailed description of the Pro-
gram Component Areas, including a description of 
any changes in the definition of or activities under
the Program Component Areas from the preceding 
report, and the reasons for such changes, and a de-
scription of Grand Challenges supported under the 
Program;’’; 
(III) in subparagraph (C), by 
striking ‘‘specific activities’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘the Network’’ 
and inserting ‘‘each Program Compo-
nent Area’’; 
(IV) in subparagraph (D), by in-
serting ‘‘and for each Program Com-
ponent Area’’ after ‘‘participating in 
the Program’’; 
(V) in subparagraph (D), by 
striking ‘‘applies;’’ and inserting ‘‘ap-
plies; and’’; 
(VI) by striking subparagraph 
(E) and redesignating subparagraph 
(F) as subparagraph (E); and 
(VII) in subparagraph (E), as so 
redesignated by subclause (VI) of this 
clause, by inserting ‘‘and the extent to 
which the Program incorporates the 
recommendations of the advisory com-
mittee established under subsection 
(b)’’ after ‘‘for the Program’’; 
(C) in subsection (b)—
(i) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 
through (5) as subparagraphs (A) through 
(E), respectively; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘ADVI-
SORY COMMITTEE.—’’; 
(iii) in paragraph (1)(C), as so redes-
ignated by clauses (i) and (ii) of this sub-
paragraph, by inserting ‘‘, including fund-
ing levels for the Program Component 
Areas’’ after ‘‘of the Program’’; 
(iv) in paragraph (1)(D), as so redes-
ignated by clauses (i) and (ii) of this sub-
paragraph, by striking ‘‘computing’’ and 
inserting 
‘‘high-performance 
computing 
and networking’’; and 
(v) by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) In addition to the duties outlined in paragraph 
(1), the advisory committee shall conduct periodic evalua-
tions of the funding, management, coordination, imple-
mentation, and activities of the Program, and shall report 
not less frequently than once every two fiscal years to the
Committee on Science of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation of the Senate on its findings and recommendations. 
The first report shall be due within one year after the date 
of enactment of this paragraph.’’; and 
(D) in subsection (c)(1)(A), by striking 
‘‘Program or’’ and inserting ‘‘Program Compo-
nent Areas or’’; and 
(3) by striking sections 102 and 103. 
SEC. 4. AGENCY ACTIVITIES. 
Title II of the High-Performance Computing Act of 
1991 (15 U.S.C. 5521 et seq.) is amended—
(1) by amending subsection (a) of section 201 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES.—As part of the 
Program described in title I, the National Science Foun-
dation shall—
‘‘(1) support research and development to gen-
erate fundamental scientific and technical knowledge 
with the potential of advancing high-performance 
computing and networking systems and their appli-
cations; 
‘‘(2) provide computing and networking infra-
structure support to the research community in the 
United States, including the provision of high-per-