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 104 STAT. 1518 PUBLIC LAW 101-510—NOV. 5, 1990 (1) Trauma care. (2) Head, neck, and spinal injury. (3) Paralysis. (4) Neurosciences and neurodegenerative diseases. (b) REQUIREMENTS. —(1) Such a contribution may be made only for a facility that will— (A) support education, training, treatment, and rehabilitative services related to the fields described in subsection (a); and (B) support neuroscience research with relevance for the medical mission of the Department of Defense. (2) Such a contribution may be made only for a facility to be located at an institutional setting that— (A) has received national recognition for its work in the fields listed in subsection (a); and (B) can best facilitate interagency collaborative research, education, and training activities. (3) The amount of a contribution under subsection (a) may not exceed 33 percent of the total cost of such complex. SEC. 243. GRANT FOR AN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (a) AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANT.—Of the amount authorized to be appropriated pursuant to section 201 for the Defense Agencies, $10,000,000 shall be available for a grant to be awarded through the use of competitive procedures to an institution of higher education to establish an institute for advanced science and technology. G)) QUALIFICATIONS. — The Secretary of Defense shall select an institution for award of a grant under subsection (a) based upon demonstrated competence of the institution's faculty. The institution selected for the grant must— (1) be a nationally recognized center conducting artificial intelligence research and education in the areas of natural language and speech processing and task oriented computer animation; (2) be carrying out research on electronically and ionically conducted organic pol3miers; and (3) have demonstrated competence in research and education in nonlinear optics and visual analysis. (c) COST-SHARING REQUIREMENT.—The grant shall be available for initial construction of a facility, the Federal share of which may not exceed 50 percent of the total cost. (d) PURPOSE OF GRANTS. — The grant shall be designed to support development of critical technologies as identified by the Department of Defense in its Critical Technologies Plan as required by Public Law 100-456. SEC. 244. SUPPORT FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated pursuant to section 201, $50,000,000 shall be available for the support (through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) of advanced precompetitive research provided for in cooperative agreements and other transactions authorized by section 2371 of title 10, United States Code.

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