American Innovation and Competitiveness Act
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Acronyms (colloquial) | AICA |
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Nicknames | American Innovation and Competitiveness Act |
Enacted by | the 114th United States Congress |
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Public law | Pub.L. 114–329 (text) (PDF) |
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The American Innovation and Competitiveness Act ("AICA") is a United States federal law enacted in 2017.
The act updated instructions to the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to conduct and support research on cybersecurity and cryptography. It created a Director of Security at NIST. It revised the program requirements on the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program which coordinates advanced computer research across U.S. government agencies. It assigned to the Office of Management and Budget a responsibility to create an interagency working group to reduce administrative burdens on federally-funded researchers.[1]
The act authorizes creation of an interagency advisory panel and working groups to consider education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.[1]
The act supports the coordination of citizen science and crowdsourcing by Federal agencies to accomplish their missions.[1]
See also[]
- Computer security
- Information assurance
- Information security
- Information security management system
- IT risk
- Threat (computer)
- Vulnerability (computing)
References[]
- ^ a b c S.3084 - American Innovation and Competitiveness Act on congress.gov
- Acts of the 114th United States Congress
- United States federal government administration legislation
- United States federal computing legislation
- Computer security