HBCU National Security Innovation Act of 2021
This bill authorizes the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering within the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish activities to better connect historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions to the programs of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
DOD must brief the congressional defense committees on activities conducted to expand DIU programs to HBCUs and minority-serving institutions and recommendations for how DOD and the federal government can support such institutions to successfully participate in DIU programs.
To provide for outreach and assistance to historically Black colleges 
      and universities regarding Defense Innovation Unit programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``HBCU National Security Innovation 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. OUTREACH TO HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND 
              MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS REGARDING DEFENSE 
              INNOVATION UNIT PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP 
              AND INNOVATION AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

    (a) Pilot Program.--The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 
Engineering may establish activities, including outreach and technical 
assistance, to better connect historically Black colleges and 
universities and minority serving institutions to the programs of the 
Defense Innovation Unit and its associated programs.
    (b) Briefing.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall brief the 
congressional defense committees on the results of any activities 
conducted under subsection (a), including the results of outreach 
efforts, the success of expanding Defense Innovation Unit programs to 
historically Black colleges and universities and minority serving 
institutions, the barriers to expansion, and recommendations for how 
the Department of Defense and the Federal Government can support such 
institutions to successfully participate in Defense Innovation Unit 
programs.
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HBCU National Security Innovation Act of 2021
A bill to provide for outreach and assistance to historically Black colleges and universities regarding Defense Innovation Unit programs.
HBCU National Security Innovation Act of 2021
Sen. Ossoff, Jon