---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19101"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19101"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19101"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part G — Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships"
---

# §19101. Establishment


There is established within the [Foundation](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships to advance research and development, technology development, and related solutions to address United States societal, national, and geostrategic challenges, for the benefit of all Americans.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10381, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1576.)