---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18971"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18971"
heading: "Expanding opportunities through the Manufacturing USA Program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18971"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter II — National Institute of Standards and Technology for the Future"
  - "Part D — Manufacturing USA Program"
---

# §18971. Expanding opportunities through the Manufacturing USA Program

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/18921.md?p=6) of Commerce, in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/42/18921.md?p=6) of Energy, the [Secretary](/usc/42/18921.md?p=6) of Defense, and the heads of such other Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) as the [Secretary](/usc/42/18921.md?p=6) of Commerce considers relevant, shall coordinate with existing and new [Manufacturing USA institutes](/usc/42/18901.md?p=18) to integrate covered entities as active members of the [Manufacturing USA institutes](/usc/42/18901.md?p=18), including through the development of preferences in selection criteria for proposals to create new [Manufacturing USA institutes](/usc/42/18901.md?p=18) or renew existing [Manufacturing USA institutes](/usc/42/18901.md?p=18) that include one or more covered entities.
- (b) **Covered entities—** For purposes of this subsection, a covered entity is—
  - (1) an [historically Black college and university](/usc/42/18901.md?p=12);
  - (2) a [Tribal College or University](/usc/42/18901.md?p=30);
  - (3) a [minority-serving institution](/usc/42/18901.md?p=19);
  - (4) a minority business enterprise (as such term is defined in section 1400.2 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, or successor regulation); or
  - (5) a rural-serving [institution of higher education](/usc/42/18901.md?p=13) (as such term is defined in [section 1161q of title 20](/usc/20/1161q.md)).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title II, § 10262, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1504.)