Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 121.djvu/710

 PUBLIC LAW 110–69—AUG. 9, 2007

121 STAT. 689

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and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate on its findings and recommendations. The first report shall be due within 1 year after the date of enactment of the America COMPETES Act. ‘‘(3) Section 14 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act shall not apply to the advisory committee established under this subsection.’’; and (D) in section 101(c) (15 U.S.C. 5511(c))— (i) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ‘‘Program or’’ and inserting ‘‘Program Component Areas or’’; and (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘subsection (a)(3)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (a)(2)(D)’’. (2) DEFINITIONS.—Section 4 of the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (15 U.S.C. 5503) is amended— (A) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘and multidisciplinary teams of researchers’’ after ‘‘high-performance computing resources’’; (B) in paragraph (3)— (i) by striking ‘‘scientific workstations,’’; (ii) by striking ‘‘(including vector supercomputers and large scale parallel systems)’’; (iii) by striking ‘‘and applications’’ and inserting ‘‘applications’’; and (iv) by inserting ‘‘, and the management of large data sets’’ after ‘‘systems software’’; (C) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘packet switched’’; (D) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (5); (E) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (6) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and (F) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(7) ‘Program Component Areas’ means the major subject areas under which related individual projects and activities carried out under the Program are grouped.’’. (3) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 1(26) of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to prevent the elimination of certain reports’’, approved November 28, 2001 (31 U.S.C. 3113 note) is amended— (A) by striking ‘‘101(a)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘101(a)(2)’’; and (B) by striking ‘‘(15 U.S.C. 5511(a)(3))’’ and inserting ‘‘(15 U.S.C. 5511(a)(2))’’. (b) ADVANCED INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH.— (1) IN GENERAL.—As part of the Program described in title I of the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (15 U.S.C. 5511 et seq.), the Foundation shall support basic research related to advanced information and communications technologies that will contribute to enhancing or facilitating the availability and affordability of advanced communications services for all people of the United States. Areas of research to be supported may include research on— (A) affordable broadband access, including wireless technologies; (B) network security and reliability; (C) communications interoperability;

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