---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19015"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19015"
heading: "Diversity in tech research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19015"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part C — Broadening Participation"
---

# §19015. Diversity in tech research


The [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall make awards, on a competitive basis, to institutions of higher education or [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) organizations (or consortia of such institutions or organizations) to support basic, applied, and use-inspired research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of entities involved in technology research, including research related to diversity and inclusion in the technology sector.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10326, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1544.)