---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19057"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19057"
heading: "Food-energy-water research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19057"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part E — Fundamental Research"
---

# §19057. Food-energy-water research


The [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall make awards on a competitive basis to institutions of higher education or [non-profit organizations](/usc/42/18901.md?p=21) (or consortia of such institutions or organizations) to—

- (1) support research to significantly advance our understanding of the food-energy-water system through quantitative and computational modeling, including support for relevant cyberinfrastructure;
- (2) develop real-time, cyber-enabled interfaces that improve understanding of the behavior of food-energy-water systems and increase decision support capability;
- (3) support research that will lead to innovative solutions to critical food-energy-water system problems; and
- (4) grow the scientific workforce capable of studying and managing the food-energy-water system, through education and other professional development.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10348, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1560.)