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Creates new federal programs and funding authorities to expand education, training, and workforce development in artificial intelligence, quantum-hybrid computing, and related technologies. It directs NSF, NIST, USDA (through NIFA), and other agencies to run competitive awards, scholarships, fellowships, outreach campaigns, prize competitions, guidance for K–12 AI use, and community-college centers, with priority for rural, low-income, Tribal, and minority‑serving institutions. Includes rules on research security and foreign gifts, prohibits awards to institutions with certain recent civil‑rights findings, requires NIST to publish workforce taxonomies, and conditions requirements on available appropriations.
The bill substantially expands federal support for AI, quantum, and related education, training, and research—prioritizing underserved institutions and workforce pipelines—while creating significant new federal costs, administrative compliance burdens, and risks that competitive processes and narrow
Millions of students, teachers, and workers — especially K–12 students, community college and minority‑serving students, and rural and Tribal communities — will gain expanded access to AI and emerging-technology instruction, training, scholarships, and hands‑on learning opportunities across education levels.
Workers, jobseekers, and career changers — including teachers and nontechnical professionals — will get clearer career pathways, standardized skill taxonomies, fellowships, and workforce training (with explicit efforts to include women and rural residents), improving job readiness for AI, cybersecurity, quantum, and related fields.
Underserved institutions and places — such as EPSCoR states, rural areas, HBCUs, Tribal colleges, and minority‑serving institutions — will receive targeted preferences, dedicated centers, outreach, and scholarship/fellowship prioritization to reduce geographic and institutional inequities in AI and advanced-technology R&D and training.
All taxpayers may ultimately bear substantial new federal spending (scholarships, fellowships, centers, outreach, prize competitions, and program operations) without specified offsets, increasing budgetary pressures and creating potential tradeoffs with other priorities.
Students, smaller colleges, community providers, rural districts, and underresourced institutions risk being disadvantaged when competitive awards, prize competitions, industry partnerships, or private‑sector consultations disproportionately favor well‑resourced universities and commercial vendors.
Applicants, colleges, and institutions face added administrative, reporting, and compliance burdens (including foreign‑entity verification and research‑security requirements), which can raise operating costs and divert resources from instruction and research.
Introduced March 2, 2026 by Jerry Moran · Last progress March 2, 2026