ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 2017

ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 2017

This bill amends the AMERICA Competes Act to declare that the following categories of information collected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) from recipients of ARPA-E financial assistance awards are considered privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act:

• plans for the commercialization of technologies that have been developed under the award,
• investments provided to an awardee from third parties,
• additional financial support that the awardee plans to invest or has invested into the technology developed under the award or that the awardee is seeking from third parties, and
• revenue from the licensing or sale of new products or services resulting from the research that was conducted under the award.

The bill reauthorizes the ARPA-E through FY2022.