Technology and cybersecurity

Executive Order 14104: Federal Research and Development in Support of Domestic Manufacturing and United States Jobs

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Tightened policy for domestic manufacture of inventions arising from federal research funding and required agencies to improve waiver transparency and planning.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 14104 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 14104 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.

Laboratory and manufacturing workers appear beside a semiconductor, patent-like document and growth arrow.
Federally supported research and domestic manufacturing, illustrated symbolically; not an identified patent, license, funded project or measured job gain. EO Explained · site-generated editorial illustration · not documentary evidence.

What does Executive Order 14104 do?

Research agencies were assigned domestic-manufacturing plans, while the science-policy and budget offices had to address waiver guidance and transparency.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: NIST published an information-collection notice for common Bayh-Dole domestic-manufacturing waiver questions that this order directed it to develop. Official source. The cited steps do not establish every downstream effect.

Administration position: The order’s findings and policy rationale were the Biden administration’s positions. This guide distinguishes them from implementation records and judicial rulings.
SignedJuly 28, 2023
Lead officialsOSTP, OMB and federal research-funding agencies
Express timingAgency plans within 180 days; waiver policy and reporting thereafter

Before and after

Before the order

Bayh-Dole domestic-manufacturing requirements applied principally to exclusive licenses for U.S. use, with agency waiver discretion.

After the order

Agencies developed implementation policies. Later domestic-manufacturing policy shifted, but grants, licenses and statutory Bayh-Dole obligations remain governed by their own terms.

NIST published an information-collection notice for common Bayh-Dole domestic-manufacturing waiver questions that this order directed it to develop.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Research agenciesDevelop domestic-manufacturing implementation plans180 days
OSTP and OMBIssue guidance and improve waiver transparencyAs directed
AgenciesConsider domestic production in funding decisionsOngoing

What happened next

EO 14104 signed.

Later primary evidence reviewed: NIST published an information-collection notice for common Bayh-Dole domestic-manufacturing waiver questions that this order directed it to develop.