10 U.S.C. § 4125: Functions of Defense research facilities

that Defense research facilities are assigned broad mission requirements rather than specific hardware needs; that appropriate personnel of such facilities are assigned to serve as consultants on component and support system standardization; that the managers of such facilities have broad latitude to choose research and development projects based on awareness of activities throughout the technology domain, including within the Federal Government, the Department of Defense, public and private research institutions and universities, and the global commercial marketplace; that technology position and issue papers prepared by Defense research facilities are readily available to all components of the Department of Defense and to contractors who submit bids or proposals for Department of Defense contracts; that, in order to promote increased consideration of technological issues early in the development process, any technological assessment made by a Defense research facility shall be provided to the Defense Technical Information Center repository to support acquisition decisions; and that, in light of Defense research facilities being funded by the public, Defense research facilities are broadly authorized and encouraged to support national technological development goals and support technological missions of other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, when such support is determined by the Secretary of Defense to be in the best interests of the Federal Government. basic research; or applied research known as exploratory development. To execute the Global Research Watch Program under section 4066 of title 10 , United States Code. To develop and maintain datasets and other data repositories on research and engineering activities being conducted within the Department. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [ Aug. 13, 2018 ], the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a plan of action for the commencement by the Defense Technical Information Center of the duties specified in subsection (a).” coordinate the research and development activities of the Department of Defense relating to high-temperature superconductivity; and is carried out in coordination with the high-temperature superconductivity research and development activities of the Department of Energy (including the national laboratories of the Department of Energy), the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and complements rather than duplicates such activities.”