; and (E) the anticipated scientific impact of the instrument. 323. Research on technosignatures (a) Sense of congress It is the sense of Congress that the search for life in the universe is an integral component of the Administration’s space science program and that the search for life in the universe has increasingly encompassed a multi- and interdisciplinary approach. It is the further sense of Congress that research related to the search for life has encompassed nongovernment funded research on and searches for intelligent life. Those efforts include searches for signatures of advanced technologies that could be used to indicate the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth, or what is referred to as technosignatures . (b) Research The Administrator may support, as appropriate, peer-reviewed, competitively selected research on technosignatures. C Planetary Science 331. Mars communications infrastructure (a) Requirements The Administrator shall develop an estimate of the Administration’s communication requirements, including bandwidth and communications needs, to serve current and future robotic orbiter, lander, rover and human missions to Mars into the 2040s. (b) Assessment The Administrator shall prepare an assessment of the existing Mars communication infrastructure and its capabilities to meet the Administration’s requirements in subsection (a), including the risk of potential gaps in communications relays between Mars spacecraft and Earth within the next 5 years. (c) Plan Based on the assessment in subsection (b), the Administrator shall develop a plan for addressing the risk of potential gaps of meeting future robotic and potential human mission requirements into the 2040s. (d) Inclusion The Plan in subsection (c) shall include— (1) options for a Mars communication infrastructure that meets the estimated requirements in subsection (a), options for mitigating any risks identified in the Assessment in subsection (b), and a preliminary estimate of the potential costs of each option, including— (A) the