DOE–NSF Interagency Research Act
Current understanding
Bill authorizing a formal memorandum of understanding between the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation for collaborative cross-cutting R&D, explicitly including artificial intelligence, multi-agency data sharing, research infrastructure, and education and training, with a joint reporting requirement to Congress. For federal AI researchers and grantees, the measure would statutorily formalize coordination between the two largest federal science funders on AI-relevant infrastructure and workforce, though it is incremental policy scaffolding rather than a new program.
Evidence log
- 2025-03-25 — DOE and NASA Interagency Research Coordination Act: cross-connection with doe-nasa-interagency-research-coordination-act: Both bills follow the same statutory template of authorizing DOE interagency MOUs for collaborative R&D and data sharing, suggesting a broader congressional pattern of codifying existing DOE partnerships. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-25 — DOE and NSF Interagency Research Act: cross-connection with create-ai-act: Both bills structure NSF’s role in AI research infrastructure; the DOE–NSF MOU would sit alongside NAIRR’s permanent NSF-administered compute and data program. (novelty: 2)