To amend the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to require a plan for data collection and analytical capability relating to the skilled technical workforce, and for other purposes.

This bill amends the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to mandate the establishment of a continuous data collection and analytical capability within the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics . This new requirement replaces a previous mandate for a one-time assessment, ensuring ongoing efforts to understand the workforce. The primary focus of this capability is to gather and analyze data related to the skilled technical workforce . A plan for initiating and maintaining this data collection must be developed within one year of the bill's enactment and subsequently updated biennially .