42 U.S.C. § 7708: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

The Director of the National Science Foundation shall establish the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation that will upgrade, link, and integrate a system of geographically distributed experimental facilities for earthquake engineering testing of full-sized structures and their components and partial-scale physical models. The system shall be integrated through networking software so that integrated models and databases can be used to create model-based simulation, and the components of the system shall be interconnected with a computer network and allow for remote access, information sharing, and collaborative research. $28,200,000 for fiscal year 2001; $24,400,000 for fiscal year 2002; $4,500,000 for fiscal year 2003; $17,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance; $20,400,000 for fiscal year 2006, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance; $20,870,000 for fiscal year 2007, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance; $21,390,000 for fiscal year 2008, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance; and $21,930,000 for fiscal year 2009, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance.