1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Securing American Research From Cyber Theft Act . 2. Purpose The purposes of this Act are to help institutions of higher education protect federally funded research from cyber theft and interference by— (1) directing the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program to provide for support and guidance on improving the security of academic computing and networking systems that process, store, and transmit federally funded research; and (2) establishing a pilot program to support regional secure computing enclaves for academia to provide researchers with secure data storage and adequately protect Federal Government data. 3. Networking and information technology research and development update Section 101 of the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 ( 15 U.S.C. 5511 ) is amended— (1) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the following: (J) provide for improving the security, reliability, and resiliency of computing and networking systems used by institutions of higher education and other nonprofit research institutions for the processing, storage and transmission of sensitive federally funded research and associated data;