---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19061"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19061"
heading: "Unmanned aircraft systems technologies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19061"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part E — Fundamental Research"
---

# §19061. Unmanned aircraft systems technologies


In coordination with the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Federal Aviation Administration and the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall carry out a program of research and related activities related to unmanned aircraft system technologies, which may include a prize competition pursuant to [section 3719 of title 15](/usc/15/3719.md) and support for undergraduate and graduate curriculum development.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10352, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1561.)