---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19063"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19063"
heading: "Leveraging international expertise in research"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19063"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part E — Fundamental Research"
---

# §19063. Leveraging international expertise in research


The [Director](/usc/42/18981.md?p=2) shall explore and advance opportunities for leveraging international capabilities and resources that align with the [Foundation](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) and [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) research community priorities and have the potential to benefit [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) prosperity, security, health, and well-being, including through binational research and development organizations and [foundations](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) and by sending teams of [Foundation](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) scientific staff for site visits of scientific [facilities](/usc/42/11049.md?p=4) and agencies in other countries. The [Director](/usc/42/18981.md?p=2) shall establish and implement policies, including through any research security [training](/usc/42/285e–2.md?p=b-2) requirements, to mitigate the potential risks of such interactions, including risks to the protection of intellectual property and the risk of undue foreign influence on research.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10354, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1562.)