---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19060"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19060"
heading: "Risk and resilience research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19060"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part E — Fundamental Research"
---

# §19060. Risk and resilience 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 advance knowledge of risk assessment and predictability and to support the creation of tools and technologies, including advancing data analytics and utilization of [artificial intelligence](/usc/42/18901.md?p=1), for increased resilience through—

- (1) improvements in our ability to understand, model, and predict extreme events and natural hazards;
- (2) the creation of novel engineered systems solutions for resilient complex infrastructures, particularly those that address critical interdependence among infrastructures and leverage the growing infusion of cyber-physical-social components into the infrastructures;
- (3) development of equipment and instrumentation for innovation in resilient engineered infrastructures;
- (4) multidisciplinary research on the behaviors individuals and communities engage in to detect, perceive, understand, predict, assess, mitigate, and prevent risks and to improve and increase resilience; and
- (5) advancements in multidisciplinary wildfire science, including those related to air quality impacts, human behavior, and early detection and warning.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10351, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1561.)