; updates (1) Deadline for initial standards The Director shall develop the standards under this title not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) Updates The Director may update the standards under this title at such times as the Director considers appropriate. (d) Relevant components defined In this section, the term relevant components means, with respect to a voting system, each component of the system which is involved with counting ballots and producing a tally of the ballots cast, including the source code, build tools, build procedure documentation, test plans, test fixtures, and software and hardware specifications. 302. Requiring States to comply with standards in administration of elections for Federal office Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 21081(a) ), as amended by section 202, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (8) Compliance with transparency and ballot verification standards In operating the voting system, the State shall comply with the applicable standards developed by the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology under title III of the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act of 2017 for ensuring that the process by which ballots are counted in elections for Federal office is transparent and permits voters to verify that votes in such elections are counted correctly. . IV Research and Development 401. Innovative election technology research and development (a) In general The National Science Foundation, in cooperation with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, shall establish an election technology innovation research and development program. Such program— (1) shall support the development of hardware and software technologies and systems for marking ballots, scanning ballots, aggregating tallies from counters, and electronic poll books