Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “ARPA–E Reauthorization Act of 2017”.
ARPA–E Reauthorization Act of 2017
A BILL
To amend the America COMPETES Act to reauthorize the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA–E), and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 ARPA–E amendments
Section 5012 of the America COMPETES Act (42 U.S.C. 16538) is amended—
by redesignating subsection (n) as subsection (o) and inserting after subsection (m) the following new subsection:
“(n) Protection of proprietary information—The following categories of information collected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy from recipients of financial assistance awards shall be considered privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure pursuant to section 552 of title 5, United States Code:
“(1) Plans for commercialization of technologies developed under the award, including business plans, technology to market plans, market studies, and cost and performance models.
“(2) Investments provided to an awardee from third parties, such as venture capital, hedge fund, or private equity firms, including amounts and percentage of ownership of the awardee provided in return for such investments.
“(3) Additional financial support that the awardee plans to invest or has invested into the technology developed under the award, or that the awardee is seeking from third parties.
“(4) Revenue from the licensing or sale of new products or services resulting from the research conducted under the award.”
in paragraph (2) of subsection (o), as so redesignated by paragraph (1) of this section, by—
striking “and” at the end of subparagraph (D);
striking the period at the end of subparagraph (E) and inserting a semicolon; and
adding at the end the following:
“(F) $330,000,000 for fiscal year 2018;
“(G) $337,365,000 for fiscal year 2019;
“(H) $354,233,250 for fiscal year 2020;
“(I) $371,944,913 for fiscal year 2021; and
“(J) $390,542,158 for fiscal year 2022.”