DOE and USDA Interagency Research Collaboration
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-03-25 — DOE and NASA Interagency Research Coordination Act: cross-connection with doe-nasa-interagency-research-coordination-act: Companion legislative pattern codifying DOE interagency R&D coordination and infrastructure access, this time with USDA rather than NASA. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-25 — DOE and NSF Interagency Research Act: cross-connection with doe-nsf-interagency-research: Parallel statutory scaffolding formalizing DOE cross-agency R&D partnerships (NSF and USDA) using similar MOU-plus-joint-reporting structures. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-25 — DOE and USDA Interagency Research Act: HR1326 (119th Congress) introduced: would direct DOE and USDA to enter a merit-reviewed interagency R&D agreement spanning AI/ML, biofuels, grid modernization and security, rural technology, wildfire risk, agricultural data integration, workforce/infrastructure, and agricultural greenhouse-gas reduction. (novelty: 2)