HR 1368
Passed a chamber
Authorizes the Energy Department and NASA to carry out joint research and development projects and to make competitive awards for them.
Official title: DOE and NASA Interagency Research Coordination Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
14-FEB-2025
Referred
14-FEB-2025
Passed
24-MAR-2025
Senate
Received
25-MAR-2025
- Requires the Energy Secretary and the NASA Administrator to coordinate this work through memoranda of understanding or other interagency agreements.
- Lists research focus areas that include nuclear propulsion, quantum information sciences, high energy physics, and earth and environmental sciences.
- Requires competitive awards to use merit review and to follow existing research security rules.
- Requires a report to Congress within two years after enactment on the coordination activities and their results.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (14-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 24-MAR-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Science, Space, and Technology Committee (House)
- Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Senate)
Science, Technology, Communications
■ 2 D■ 1 R
2 Democrats
1 Republican