&quot;America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010&quot; or the &quot;America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Reauthorization Act of 2010.&quot; House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session. H.R. 5116
Author: US House of Representatives
Date: 2010-01-05
Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
Subjects: Federal Legislation,STEM Education,Public Agencies,Space Sciences,Oceanography,Standards,Technology,Innovation,Public Policy

The America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) Reauthorization Act of 2010 documented here is divided into the following titles: (1) Office of Science and Technology Policy (Coordination of Federal STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education; Coordination of advanced manufacturing research and development; Interagency public access committee; Federal scientific collections; Prize competitions); (2) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA&apos;s contribution to innovation and competitiveness; NASA&apos;s contribution to education; Assessment of impediments to space science and engineering workforce development for minority and under-represented groups at NASA; International Space Station&apos;s contribution to national competitiveness enhancement, Study of potential commercial orbital platform program impact on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics; Definitions); (3) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Oceanic and atmospheric research and development program; Oceanic and atmospheric science education programs; Workforce study); (4) National Institute of Standards and Technology (Short title; Authorization of appropriations; Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology; Manufacturing Extension Partnership; Emergency communication and tracking technologies research initiative; Broadening participation; NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology] Fellowships; Green manufacturing and construction; Definitions); (5) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Support Programs (National Science Foundation; STEM-Training Grant Program); (6) Innovation (Office of innovation and entrepreneurship; Federal loan guarantees for innovative technologies in manufacturing; Regional innovation program; Study on economic competitiveness and innovative capacity of United States and development of national economic competitiveness strategy; Promoting use of high-end computing simulation and modeling by small- and medium-sized manufacturers); (7) NIST Green Jobs (Short title; Findings; National Institute of Standards and Technology competitive grant program); (8) General Provisions (Government Accountability Office review; Salary restrictions; Additional research authorities of the FCC); (9) Department of Energy (Science, engineering, and mathematics education programs; Energy research programs; Basic research; Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy); (10) Education (References; Repeals and conforming amendments; Authorizations of appropriations and matching requirement). [This Act may be cited as the &quot;America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010&quot; or the &quot;America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Reauthorization Act of 2010.&quot;]