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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2385
To establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH26, 2025
Mr. O
BERNOLTE(for himself and Mr. BEYER) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
A BILL
To establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research
Resource, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Creating Resources 4
for Every American To Experiment with Artificial Intel-5
ligence Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘CREATE AI Act of 2025’’. 6
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 7
Congress finds the following: 8
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(1) Cutting-edge artificial intelligence research 1
relies on access to computational resources and large 2
datasets. 3
(2) Access to the computational resources and 4
datasets necessary for artificial intelligence research 5
and development is often limited to very large tech-6
nology companies. 7
(3) The lack of access to computational and 8
data resources has resulted in insufficient diversity 9
in the artificial intelligence research and develop-10
ment community. 11
(4) Engaging the full and diverse talent of the 12
United States is critical for maintaining United 13
States leadership in artificial intelligence and ensur-14
ing that artificial intelligence is developed in a man-15
ner that benefits all people of the United States. 16
(5) The National Artificial Intelligence Re-17
search Resource Task Force, authorized under sec-18
tion 5106 of the National Artificial Intelligence Ini-19
tiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401 et seq.), rec-20
ommended the establishment of a National Artificial 21
Intelligence Research Resource in a report entitled 22
‘‘Strengthening and Democratizing the U.S. Artifi-23
cial Intelligence Innovation Ecosystem: An Imple-24
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mentation Plan for a National Artificial Intelligence 1
Research Resource’’, issued on January 24, 2023. 2
SEC. 3. NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH 3
RESOURCE. 4
(a) NAIRR S
TEERINGSUBCOMMITTEE.—Section 5
5103 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National De-6
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 7
9413) is amended— 8
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-9
section (f); and 10
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-11
lowing: 12
‘‘(e) NAIRR S
TEERINGSUBCOMMITTEE.— 13
‘‘(1) D
EFINITION.—In this subsection, the 14
terms ‘NAIRR’, ‘National Artificial Intelligence Re-15
search Resource’, ‘Operating Entity’, ‘Program 16
Management Office’, and ‘resources of the NAIRR’ 17
have the meanings given the terms in section 5601. 18
‘‘(2) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established 19
within the Interagency Committee a Steering Sub-20
committee for the National Artificial Intelligence Re-21
search Resource (referred to in this section as the 22
‘NAIRR Steering Subcommittee’). 23
‘‘(3) C
HAIR AND ASSISTANT CHAIRS .—The 24
NAIRR Steering Subcommittee shall be chaired by 25
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the Director of the Office of Science and Technology 1
Policy. The Director of the Office of Science and 2
Technology Policy may establish assistant chairs of 3
the NAIRR Steering Subcommittee based on mem-4
bers of the NAIRR Steering Subcommittee rotating 5
into the assistant chair positions on a predetermined 6
schedule. 7
‘‘(4) M
EMBERSHIP.—The Director of the Office 8
of Science and Technology Policy shall select mem-9
bers of the Interagency Committee to serve on the 10
NAIRR Steering Subcommittee that the Director de-11
termines— 12
‘‘(A) have substantial expertise; 13
‘‘(B) have substantially funded or con-14
ducted artificial intelligence research and devel-15
opment; or 16
‘‘(C) have some other significant relation-17
ship with the NAIRR. 18
‘‘(5) C
HANGES TO NAIRR STEERING SUB -19
COMMITTEE COMPOSITION .—Not less frequently 20
than once a year, the Director of the Office of 21
Science and Technology Policy shall review the com-22
position of the NAIRR Steering Subcommittee and 23
update such composition, which may include adding 24
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or removing members from the NAIRR Steering 1
Subcommittee, if necessary. 2
‘‘(6) S
UBCOMMITTEES AND WORKING 3
GROUPS.—The NAIRR Steering Subcommittee may 4
establish subcommittees, working groups, or other 5
permanent or temporary bodies of certain members 6
of the NAIRR Steering Subcommittee. 7
‘‘(7) D
UTIES.—The NAIRR Steering Sub-8
committee shall— 9
‘‘(A) coordinate with the National Science 10
Foundation and the Program Management Of-11
fice to— 12
‘‘(i) oversee and approve the operating 13
plan for the NAIRR; 14
‘‘(ii) review the budget for the 15
NAIRR; 16
‘‘(iii) develop and release a request for 17
proposals to solicit bids for the Operating 18
Entity, including establishing the terms 19
and conditions and functions of the Oper-20
ating Entity; and 21
‘‘(iv) develop and release funding op-22
portunities for resources of the NAIRR; 23
‘‘(B) work with the Program Management 24
Office to establish criteria for the Operating 25
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Entity, review candidates, and select an entity 1
to act as the Operating Entity; 2
‘‘(C) identify resources that could be fed-3
erated, participate in resource provider selection 4
and funding, and provide direction to the Oper-5
ating Entity about resource allocation and how 6
those resources should be made accessible via 7
the NAIRR; 8
‘‘(D) define key performance indicators for 9
the NAIRR, in conjunction with the Program 10
Management Office and any relevant Advisory 11
Committees established under section 5602(c); 12
‘‘(E) evaluate NAIRR performance against 13
the key performance indicators defined under 14
subparagraph (D) on a periodic basis and not 15
less frequently than once every year; 16
‘‘(F) develop an annual report, transmitted 17
to the Director of the Office of Science and 18
Technology Policy and publicly released, on the 19
progress of the National Artificial Intelligence 20
Research Resource that includes— 21
‘‘(i) a summary of the results of the 22
evaluation conducted under subparagraph 23
(E); and 24
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‘‘(ii) any recommendations for 1
changes to the NAIRR; and 2
‘‘(G) oversee a periodic independent assess-3
ment of the NAIRR. 4
‘‘(8) P
ROVISION OF RESOURCES OF THE 5
NAIRR.—Each agency comprising the NAIRR Steer-6
ing Subcommittee is authorized to provide the Oper-7
ating Entity with resources of the NAIRR or fund-8
ing for resources of the NAIRR.’’. 9
(b) I
NGENERAL.—The National Artificial Intel-10
ligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401 et seq.) 11
is amended by adding at the end the following: 12
‘‘TITLE LVI—NATIONAL ARTIFI-13
CIAL INTELLIGENCE RE-14
SEARCH RESOURCE 15
‘‘Sec. 5601. Definitions.
‘‘Sec. 5602. Establishment; governance.
‘‘Sec. 5603. Resources of the NAIRR.
‘‘Sec. 5604. NAIRR processes and procedures.
‘‘Sec. 5605. NAIRR funding.
‘‘SEC. 5601. DEFINITIONS.
16
‘‘In this title: 17
‘‘(1) A
DVISORY COMMITTEE .—The term ‘Advi-18
sory Committee’ means any Advisory Committee es-19
tablished under section 5602(c). 20
‘‘(2) AI
TESTBED.—The term ‘AI testbed’ 21
means a testbed described in section 22A(g) of the 22
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National Institute of Standards and Technology Act 1
(15 U.S.C. 278h–1(g)). 2
‘‘(3) E
XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘Execu-3
tive agency’ has the meaning given such term in sec-4
tion 105 of title 5, United States Code. 5
‘‘(4) N
ATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RE -6
SEARCH RESOURCE ; NAIRR.—The terms ‘National 7
Artificial Intelligence Research Resource’ and 8
‘NAIRR’ have the meaning given the term ‘National 9
Artificial Intelligence Research Resource’ in section 10
5601(g). 11
‘‘(5) O
PERATING ENTITY.—The term ‘Oper-12
ating Entity’ means the Operating Entity selected 13
by the Program Management Office as described in 14
section 5602(b)(3)(A). 15
‘‘(6) P
ROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE .—The 16
term ‘Program Management Office’ means the Pro-17
gram Management Office established under section 18
5602(b). 19
‘‘(7) R
ESOURCE OF THE NAIRR .—The term ‘re-20
source of the NAIRR’ means a resource described in 21
section 5603(b). 22
‘‘(8) NAIRR
STEERING SUBCOMMITTEE .—The 23
term ‘NAIRR Steering Subcommittee’ means the 24
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NAIRR Steering Subcommittee established under 1
section 5103(e). 2
‘‘(9) STEM.—The term ‘STEM’ means science, 3
technology, engineering, and mathematics, including 4
computer science. 5
‘‘SEC. 5602. ESTABLISHMENT; GOVERNANCE. 6
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—Not later than one year 7
after the date of the enactment of the Creating Resources 8
for Every American To Experiment with Artificial Intel-9
ligence Act of 2025, the Director of the National Science 10
Foundation, in coordination with the NAIRR Steering 11
Subcommittee, shall establish the National Artificial Intel-12
ligence Research Resource to— 13
‘‘(1) spur innovation and advance the develop-14
ment of artificial intelligence to stimulate cutting- 15
edge research and propel the strategic development 16
of artificial intelligence capabilities; 17
‘‘(2) improve access to artificial intelligence re-18
sources for researchers and students of artificial in-19
telligence; 20
‘‘(3) improve capacity for artificial intelligence 21
research in the United States; and 22
‘‘(4) support the testing, benchmarking, and 23
evaluation of artificial intelligence systems developed 24
and deployed in the United States. 25
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‘‘(b) PROGRAMMANAGEMENTOFFICE.— 1
‘‘(1) E
STABLISHMENT.—The Director of the 2
National Science Foundation shall establish within 3
the National Science Foundation a Program Man-4
agement Office to oversee the day-to-day functions 5
of the NAIRR and shall appoint an individual to 6
head the Program Management Office. 7
‘‘(2) S
TAFF.— 8
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The head of the Pro-9
gram Management Office may identify staff 10
and direct all employees of the Program Man-11
agement Office, in accordance with the applica-12
ble provisions of title 5, United States Code. 13
‘‘(B) R
EPRESENTATION AND REQUIRE -14
MENTS.—The staff of the Program Manage-15
ment Office— 16
‘‘(i) may include representation from 17
other Federal agencies providing support 18
for NAIRR resources; and 19
‘‘(ii) shall include not fewer than 20
three full-time employees. 21
‘‘(3) D
UTIES.—The duties of the Program 22
Management Office shall include— 23
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‘‘(A) in coordination with the NAIRR 1
Steering Subcommittee and any relevant Advi-2
sory Committee as appropriate— 3
‘‘(i) developing the funding oppor-4
tunity and soliciting bids for the Operating 5
Entity, which will be responsible for oper-6
ation of the National Artificial Intelligence 7
Research Resource; 8
‘‘(ii) selecting, through a competitive 9
and transparent process, a nongovern-10
mental organization, which may be an 11
independent legal entity or a consortium of 12
1 or more partners (which may include 13
federally funded research and development 14
centers), to be designated the Operating 15
Entity; 16
‘‘(iii) overseeing compliance with the 17
contractual obligations of the Operating 18
Entity; 19
‘‘(iv) establishing evaluation criteria 20
for the NAIRR; 21
‘‘(v) overseeing asset allocation and 22
utilization; 23
‘‘(vi) identifying an external inde-24
pendent evaluation entity; 25
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‘‘(vii) assessing the performance of 1
the Operating Entity on not less than an 2
annual basis and, if such performance is 3
unsatisfactory, ending the agreement with 4
such Operating Entity and selecting a new 5
Operating Entity in accordance with clause 6
(ii); 7
‘‘(viii) developing multi-agency fund-8
ing opportunities for the selection of 9
NAIRR resources; and 10
‘‘(ix) coordinating resource contribu-11
tions from participating Federal agencies; 12
and 13
‘‘(B) delegating, with appropriate over-14
sight, operational tasks to the Operating Enti-15
ty, including— 16
‘‘(i) coordinating the provisioning of 17
resources of the NAIRR; 18
‘‘(ii) maintaining a portal and associ-19
ated services for users to access resources 20
of the NAIRR; 21
‘‘(iii) developing policies and proce-22
dures for the NAIRR; 23
‘‘(iv) hiring and managing a staff (in-24
cluding experts in cyber infrastructure 25
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management, data science, research de-1
sign, privacy, ethics, and legal and policy 2
matters) to support the operations of the 3
NAIRR; 4
‘‘(v) continually modernizing NAIRR 5
infrastructure; 6
‘‘(vi) recommending key performance 7
indicators for the NAIRR, in coordination 8
with the NAIRR Steering Subcommittee 9
and any relevant Advisory Committee; 10
‘‘(vii) publishing publicly available an-11
nual reports reviewing the performance of 12
the NAIRR, the resources of the NAIRR, 13
and the NAIRR governance structures; 14
‘‘(viii) establishing and administering 15
training to new users on accessing a re-16
source of the NAIRR, research design, and 17
issues related to privacy, ethics, safety, and 18
trustworthiness of artificial intelligence 19
systems; 20
‘‘(ix) facilitating connections to AI 21
testbeds; and 22
‘‘(x) making educational resources of 23
the NAIRR available to other Federal 24
agencies, and to Congress, for the purpose 25
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of educating Federal Government officials 1
and employees about artificial intelligence. 2
‘‘(c) A
DVISORYCOMMITTEES.—The head of the Pro-3
gram Management Office, acting through the Director of 4
the Operating Entity, shall establish Advisory Committees 5
to provide advice to the Operating Entity and the Program 6
Management Office. Any such Advisory Committees shall 7
be comprised of members from government agencies, the 8
private sector, academia, and public interest groups. 9
Chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply 10
to any such Advisory Committee. 11
‘‘SEC. 5603. RESOURCES OF THE NAIRR. 12
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The head of the Program Man-13
agement Office, acting through the Director of the Oper-14
ating Entity and in coordination with the NAIRR Steering 15
Subcommittee and any relevant Advisory Committee, 16
shall— 17
‘‘(1) coordinate and provision resources of the 18
NAIRR; 19
‘‘(2) establish processes to manage the procure-20
ment of new resources of the NAIRR, and intake of 21
in-kind contribution of resources of the NAIRR, 22
from Federal agencies or other entities; 23
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‘‘(3) establish policies on and review resources 1
of the NAIRR for concerns related to ethics and pri-2
vacy; 3
‘‘(4) retire resources of the NAIRR no longer 4
available or needed; and 5
‘‘(5) publicly report a summary of categories of 6
available resources of the NAIRR, categories of 7
sources of such resources of the NAIRR, and issues 8
related to resources of the NAIRR. 9
‘‘(b) R
ESOURCES OF THE NAIRR.—The NAIRR 10
shall offer resources that include, at a minimum, all of 11
the following, subject to the availability of appropriations: 12
‘‘(1) A mix of computational resources, includ-13
ing— 14
‘‘(A) on-premises, cloud-based, hybrid, and 15
emergent resources; 16
‘‘(B) public cloud providers providing ac-17
cess to popular computational and storage serv-18
ices for NAIRR users; 19
‘‘(C) an open source software environment 20
for the NAIRR; 21
‘‘(D) an application programming interface 22
providing structured access to artificial intel-23
ligence models; and 24
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‘‘(E) other types of computational re-1
sources. 2
‘‘(2) Data, including by— 3
‘‘(A)(i) in coordination with the National 4
Institute of Standards and Technology and con-5
sistent with the guidance of the National 6
Science and Technology Council titled ‘Desir-7
able Characteristics of Data Repositories for 8
Federally Funded Data,’ dated May 2022, or 9
any successor document, publishing interoper-10
ability standards for data repositories based on 11
the data sharing and documentation standards 12
and guidelines produced under section 22A of 13
the National Institute of Standards and Tech-14
nology Act (15 U.S.C. 278h–1); and 15
‘‘(ii) selecting and developing, through a 16
competitive bidding process, data repositories to 17
be available to NAIRR users; 18
‘‘(B) establishing acceptable criteria for 19
datasets used as resources of the NAIRR; 20
‘‘(C) identifying and providing access to 21
existing curated datasets of value and interest 22
to the NAIRR user community; 23
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‘‘(D) establishing an artificial intelligence 1
open data commons to facilitate community 2
sharing and curation of data, code, and models; 3
‘‘(E) coordinating with the Interagency 4
Council on Statistical Policy to explore options 5
to make Federal statistical data available to 6
NAIRR users, including through the standard 7
application process established under section 8
3583(a) of title 44, United States Code; and 9
‘‘(F) other types of computational re-10
sources. 11
‘‘(3) Educational tools and services, including 12
by— 13
‘‘(A) facilitating and curating educational 14
and training materials; 15
‘‘(B) providing technical training and user 16
support; and 17
‘‘(C) providing targeted outreach and pro-18
gramming strategies to increase participation in 19
STEM fields. 20
‘‘(4) AI testbeds, including by— 21
‘‘(A) in coordination with the National In-22
stitute of Standards and Technology, facili-23
tating access to artificial intelligence testbeds 24
through which researchers can measure, bench-25
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mark, test, or evaluate engineering or algo-1
rithmic developments; and 2
‘‘(B) developing a comprehensive catalog of 3
open AI testbeds. 4
‘‘SEC. 5604. NAIRR PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES. 5
‘‘(a) U
SERELIGIBILITY.— 6
‘‘(1) E
LIGIBLE USERS.—Subject to paragraph 7
(3), the following users shall be eligible for access to 8
the NAIRR: 9
‘‘(A) A researcher, educator, or student 10
based in the United States that is affiliated 11
with an entity described in paragraph (2). 12
‘‘(B) An employee of an entity described in 13
clause (iii) or (iv) of paragraph (2)(B) with a 14
demonstrable mission-need. 15
‘‘(2) E
NTITIES DESCRIBED .—An entity de-16
scribed in this paragraph is an entity that satisfies 17
the following: 18
‘‘(A) Is based in the United States. 19
‘‘(B) Is one of the following: 20
‘‘(i) An institution of higher edu-21
cation. 22
‘‘(ii) A nonprofit institution (as such 23
term is defined in section 4 of the Steven-24
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son-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1
1980 (15 U.S.C. 3703)). 2
‘‘(iii) An Executive agency. 3
‘‘(iv) A federally funded research and 4
development center. 5
‘‘(v) A small business concern (as 6
such term is defined in section 3 of the 7
Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632), not-8
withstanding section 121.103 of title 13, 9
Code of Federal Regulations) that has re-10
ceived funding from an Executive agency, 11
including through the Small Business In-12
novation Research Program or the Small 13
Business Technology Transfer Program 14
(as described in section 9 of the Small 15
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638)). 16
‘‘(vi) A category of entity that the Di-17
rector of the National Science Foundation 18
and the Director of the Office of Science 19
and Technology Policy, after consultation 20
with the NAIRR Steering Subcommittee 21
and any relevant Advisory Committee, de-22
termine shall be eligible. 23
‘‘(vii) A consortium composed of enti-24
ties described in clauses (i) through (vi). 25
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‘‘(3) EXCLUDED ENTITIES.— 1
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—No individual is au-2
thorized to be an eligible user under paragraph 3
(1) if the individual is employed by a foreign 4
country that is listed in section 4872(d)(2) of 5
title 10, United States Code, or is otherwise au-6
thorized by such country to act for or on its be-7
half. 8
‘‘(B) E
NFORCEMENT.—The Director of the 9
National Science Foundation shall ensure that 10
individuals authorized as eligible users meet the 11
requirements of subparagraph (A). 12
‘‘(b) P
RIVACY, ETHICS, CIVILRIGHTS ANDCIVIL 13
L
IBERTIES, SAFETY, ANDTRUSTWORTHINESS.— 14
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.— 15
‘‘(A) R
EQUIREMENTS.—The head of the 16
Program Management Office, acting through 17
the Director of the Operating Entity and in 18
consultation with any relevant Advisory Com-19
mittee, shall establish requirements, a review 20
process for applications, and a process for au-21
diting resources of the NAIRR and research 22
conducted using resources of the NAIRR on 23
matters related to privacy, ethics, safety, secu-24
rity, and trustworthiness of artificial intel-25
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ligence systems developed using resources of the 1
NAIRR. 2
‘‘(B) F
EDERAL STATISTICAL DATA .—Any 3
auditing process required under subparagraph 4
(A) for Federal statistical data included in a re-5
source of the NAIRR shall be completed by the 6
head of a designated statistical agency (as de-7
fined in section 3576(e) of title 44, United 8
States Code), in coordination with the Chief 9
Statistician of the United States, consistent 10
with relevant law. 11
‘‘(2) C
ONSISTENCY.—The head of the Program 12
Management Office shall ensure the requirements 13
and processes described in paragraph (1) are con-14
sistent with the policies of the Office of Management 15
and Budget policy and relevant policies of other Ex-16
ecutive agencies. The head of the Program Manage-17
ment Office shall coordinate with the Senior Agency 18
Official for Privacy and the General Counsel of the 19
National Science Foundation in ensuring compliance 20
with applicable privacy law and policy and Federal 21
laws and regulations. 22
‘‘(3) A
VAILABILITY.—The head of the Program 23
Management Office, acting through the Director of 24
the Operating Entity, shall— 25
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‘‘(A) when determining access to computa-1
tional resources of the NAIRR, take into con-2
sideration the extent to which the access relates 3
to privacy, ethics, safety, security, risk mitiga-4
tion, and trustworthiness of artificial intel-5
ligence systems, or other topics that dem-6
onstrate that a project is in the public interest; 7
‘‘(B) ensure that a significant percentage 8
of the annual allotment of computational re-9
sources of the NAIRR is provided to projects 10
the primary focus of which is related to any of 11
the topics described in subparagraph (A); and 12
‘‘(C) to the extent that demand for access 13
to computational resources of the NAIRR ex-14
ceeds availability, consider, on a priority basis, 15
projects focusing on any of the topics described 16
in subparagraph (A) when ranking applications 17
for such access. 18
‘‘(c) S
CIENTIFICINTEGRITY.— 19
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The head of the Program 20
Management Office, acting through the Director of 21
the Operating Entity and in consultation with any 22
relevant Advisory Committee, shall develop guidance 23
for— 24
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‘‘(A) addressing concerns related to mat-1
ters of scientific integrity, including matters re-2
lated to the effects or impacts of research and 3
potential research enabled by the NAIRR; and 4
‘‘(B) mechanisms for an employee of the 5
Operating Entity, an employee of the Program 6
Management Office, a member of the NAIRR 7
Steering Subcommittee or an Advisory Com-8
mittee, a researcher or student affiliated with a 9
NAIRR user described in subsection (a)(1), an 10
employee of a provider of a resource of the 11
NAIRR, an employee of a NAIRR funding 12
agency, or a member of the public to report vio-13
lations of the guidance developed under this 14
paragraph, including by confidential and anony-15
mous means. 16
‘‘(2) C
ONSISTENCY WITH GOVERNMENT POLI -17
CIES ON SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY .—The guidance de-18
veloped under paragraph (1)(A) shall be published in 19
a publicly accessible location on the website of the 20
NAIRR. Such policies shall, to the degree prac-21
ticable, be consistent with— 22
‘‘(A) the Presidential memorandum enti-23
tled ‘Restoring Trust in Government Through 24
Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policy-25
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making’, dated January 27, 2021, or successor 1
document; and 2
‘‘(B) reports produced pursuant to such 3
Presidential memorandum (including the re-4
ports entitled ‘Protecting the Integrity of Gov-5
ernment Science’, dated January 2022, and ‘A 6
Framework for Federal Scientific Integrity Pol-7
icy and Practice’, dated January 2023, pub-8
lished by the National Science and Technology 9
Council, or successor documents). 10
‘‘(d) S
YSTEMSECURITY AND USERACCESSCON-11
TROLS.—The head of the Program Management Office, 12
acting through the Director of the Operating Entity and 13
in consultation with the NAIRR Steering Subcommittee, 14
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the 15
Director of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-16
nology, and the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infra-17
structure Security Agency— 18
‘‘(1) shall establish minimum security require-19
ments for all persons interacting with the NAIRR, 20
consistent with the most recent version of the Cyber-21
security Framework, or successor document, main-22
tained by the National Institute of Standards and 23
Technology; and 24
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‘‘(2) may establish tiers of security require-1
ments and user access controls beyond the minimum 2
requirements relative to security risks. 3
‘‘(e) F
EESCHEDULE.—The head of the Program 4
Management Office, acting through the Director of the 5
Operating Entity, may establish a fee schedule for access 6
to the NAIRR. Fees charged under this subsection may 7
be retained and used for the purposes of this title. The 8
Operating Entity may only charge fees in such fee sched-9
ule. Such fee schedule— 10
‘‘(1) may differ by type of eligible user and type 11
of affiliated entity described in subsection (a); 12
‘‘(2) shall include a free tier of access based on 13
appropriated funds and anticipated costs and de-14
mand; 15
‘‘(3) may include cost-based charges for eligible 16
users to purchase resources of the NAIRR beyond 17
the resources included in a free or subsidized tier; 18
and 19
‘‘(4) shall ensure that the primary purpose of 20
the NAIRR is to support research. 21
‘‘(f) R
ESEARCHSECURITY.—The head of the Pro-22
gram Management Office, acting through the Director of 23
the Operating Entity and in consultation with the NAIRR 24
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Steering Subcommittee and the Director of the Office of 1
Science and Technology Policy, shall— 2
‘‘(1) ensure conformance with the requirements 3
of National Security Presidential Memorandum–33 4
(relating to supported research and development na-5
tional policy), issued January 2021, and its imple-6
mentation guidance on research security and re-7
search integrity, or any successor policy document or 8
guidance, by establishing NAIRR operating prin-9
ciples that emphasize the research integrity prin-10
ciples of openness, reciprocity, and transparency; 11
and 12
‘‘(2) designate a member of the leadership team 13
for the Operating Entity as a research security point 14
of contact with responsibility for overseeing conform-15
ance with the National Security Presidential Memo-16
randum–33 and its implementation guidance, or any 17
successor policy document or guidance. 18
‘‘SEC. 5605. NAIRR FUNDING. 19
‘‘To carry out this title, to the maximum extent prac-20
ticable, the NAIRR is authorized to accept and use dona-21
tions of cash, services, and personal property from the pri-22
vate sector.’’. 23
(c) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.—The table of con-24
tents in section 2(b) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 25
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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 1
(Public Law 116–283; 134 Stat. 3388) is amended by in-2
serting after the items relating to title LV the following: 3
‘‘TITLE LVI—NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH
RESOURCE
‘‘Sec. 5601. Definitions.
‘‘Sec. 5602. Establishment; governance.
‘‘Sec. 5603. Resources of the NAIRR.
‘‘Sec. 5604. NAIRR processes and procedures.
‘‘Sec. 5605. NAIRR funding.’’.
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