---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 5205"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "5205"
heading: "National Science Foundation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/5205"
units:
  - "Chapter 78 — Superconductivity and Competitiveness"
---

# §5205. National Science Foundation


The National Science Foundation shall promote fundamental research in pursuance of the goals of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–697, § 6, Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4615.)