American Innovation and Competitiveness Act explained

Shorttitle:	American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2017
Colloquialacronym:	AICA
Nickname:	American Innovation and Competitiveness Act
Enacted By:	114th
Leghisturl:	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3084
Introducedin:	Senate
Introducedby:	Cory Gardner (R–CO)
Introduceddate:	June 22, 2016
Committees:	Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Passedbody1:	Senate
Passeddate1:	December 10, 2016
Passedbody2:	House
Passeddate2:	December 16, 2016
Signedpresident:	Barack Obama
Signeddate:	January 6, 2017

The American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (AICA) is a United States federal law enacted in 2017 by President Barack Obama that aims to invest in cybersecurity and cryptography research. The legislation was initially introduced in the Senate by Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Gary Peters (D-MI).^[1] The legislation serves as a reauthorization of the 2010 America COMPETES Act that expired in 2013.^[2]

The legislation updates instructions to the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with a director of security position being created in the latter. AICA supports the coordination of citizen science and crowdsourcing by Federal agencies to accomplish their missions.^[3]

Provisions

As a result of AICA:

• Program requirements on the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program, which coordinates advanced computer research across U.S. government agencies, were revised
• The Office of Management and Budget was given the responsibility to create an interagency working group to reduce administrative burdens on federally-funded researchers.
• Both interagency advisory panel and working groups were created to consider education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

See also

• Computer security
• Information assurance
• Information security
• Information security management system
• IT risk
• Threat (computer)
• Vulnerability (computing)

External links

• American Innovation and Competitiveness Act as amended (PDF/details) in the GPO Statute Compilations collection
• American Innovation and Competitiveness Act as enacted (PDF/details) in the US Statutes at Large
• on Congress.gov

Notes and References

1. Web site: President Signs Peters-Gardner American Innovation and Competitiveness Act into Law U.S. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan . 2022-02-28 . www.peters.senate.gov . en.
2. Web site: Mervis . Jeffrey . December 16, 2016 . Update: Surprise! Innovation bill clears House, heads to president . Science.org.
3. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3084 S.3084 - American Innovation and Competitiveness Act