---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19063"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19063"
heading: "Leveraging international expertise in research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19063"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part E — Fundamental Research"
---

# §19063. Leveraging international expertise in research


The [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall explore and advance opportunities for leveraging international capabilities and resources that align with the [Foundation](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) and United States research community priorities and have the potential to benefit United States prosperity, security, health, and well-being, including through binational research and development organizations and [foundations](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) and by sending teams of [Foundation](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) scientific staff for site visits of scientific facilities and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) in other countries. The [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall establish and implement policies, including through any research security training requirements, to mitigate the potential risks of such interactions, including risks to the protection of intellectual property and the risk of undue foreign influence on research.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10354, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1562.)