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 .