109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4942

AN ACT

To establish a capability and office to promote cooperation 

between entities of the United States and its allies in 

the global war on terrorism for the purpose of engaging 

in cooperative endeavors focused on the research, development, and commercialization of high-priority technologies intended to detect, prevent, respond to, recover 

from, and mitigate against acts of terrorism and other 

high consequence events and to address the homeland 

security needs of Federal, State, and local governments.
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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting 

5 Antiterrorism Capabilities Through International Co6 operation Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

8 The Congress finds the following: 

9 (1) The development and implementation of 

10 technology is critical to combating terrorism and 

11 other high consequence events and implementing a 

12 comprehensive homeland security strategy. 

13 (2) The United States and its allies in the glob14 al war on terrorism share a common interest in fa15 cilitating research, development, testing, and evalua16 tion of technologies that will aid in detecting, pre17 venting, responding to, recovering from, and miti18 gating against acts of terrorism. 

19 (3) Certain United States allies in the global 

20 war on terrorism, including Israel, the United King21 dom, Canada, Australia, and Singapore have exten22 sive experience with, and technological expertise in, 

23 homeland security. 

24 (4) The United States and certain of its allies 

25 in the global war on terrorism have a history of suc-
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1 cessful collaboration in developing mutually bene2 ficial technologies in the areas of defense, agri3 culture, and telecommunications. 

4 (5) The United States and its allies in the glob5 al war on terrorism will mutually benefit from the 

6 sharing of technological expertise to combat domes7 tic and international terrorism. 

8 (6) The establishment of a program to facilitate 

9 and support cooperative endeavors between and 

10 among government agencies, for-profit business enti11 ties, academic institutions, and nonprofit entities of 

12 the United States and its allies will safeguard lives 

13 and property worldwide against acts of terrorism 

14 and other high consequence events. 

15 SEC. 3. PROMOTING ANTITERRORISM THROUGH INTER16 NATIONAL COOPERATION ACT. 

17 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Homeland Security Act of 

18 2002 is amended by inserting after section 313 (6 U.S.C. 

19 193) the following new section: 

20 ‘‘SEC. 314. PROMOTING ANTITERRORISM THROUGH INTER21 NATIONAL COOPERATION PROGRAM. 

22 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

23 ‘‘(1) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘Director’ means 

24 the Director selected under subsection (c)(1). 
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1 ‘‘(2) INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTIVI2 TIES.—The term ‘international cooperative activities’ 

3 includes—

4 ‘‘(A) coordinated research projects, joint 

5 research projects, or joint ventures; 

6 ‘‘(B) joint studies or technical demonstra7 tions; 

8 ‘‘(C) coordinated field exercises, scientific 

9 seminars, conferences, symposia, and work10 shops; 

11 ‘‘(D) training of scientists and engineers; 

12 ‘‘(E) visits and exchanges of scientists, en13 gineers, or other appropriate personnel; 

14 ‘‘(F) exchanges or sharing of scientific and 

15 technological information; and 

16 ‘‘(G) joint use of laboratory facilities and 

17 equipment. 

18 ‘‘(3) UNDER SECRETARY.—The term ‘Under 

19 Secretary’ means the Under Secretary for Science 

20 and Technology of the Department of Homeland Se21 curity. 

22 ‘‘(4) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—

23 The term ‘institution of higher education’ has the 

24 meaning given such term in section 101(a) of the 

25 Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)). 
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1 ‘‘(b) INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES.—

2 ‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION.—The Under Secretary is 

3 authorized to carry out international cooperative ac4 tivities to support the responsibilities specified under 

5 section 302. 

6 ‘‘(2) MECHANISMS AND EQUITABILITY.—In car7 rying out this section, the Under Secretary may 

8 award grants to and enter into cooperative agree9 ments or contracts with United States governmental 

10 organizations, businesses, federally funded research 

11 and development centers, institutions of higher edu12 cation, and foreign public or private entities. The 

13 Under Secretary shall ensure that funding and re14 sources expended in international cooperative activi15 ties will be equitably matched by the foreign partner 

16 organization through direct funding or funding of 

17 complementary activities, or through provision of 

18 staff, facilities, materials, or equipment. 

19 ‘‘(3) COOPERATION.—The Under Secretary is 

20 authorized to conduct international cooperative ac21 tivities jointly with other agencies. 

22 ‘‘(4) FOREIGN PARTNERS.—Under this section, 

23 the Under Secretary may form partnerships with 

24 United States allies in the global war on terrorism, 

25 including Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada, Aus-
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1 tralia, Singapore, and other countries as appro2 priate. 

3 ‘‘(5) EXOTIC DISEASES.—As part of the inter4 national cooperative activities authorized in this sec5 tion, the Under Secretary may facilitate the develop6 ment of information sharing and other types of co7 operative mechanisms with foreign countries, includ8 ing nations in Africa, to strengthen American pre9 paredness against threats to the Nation’s agricul10 tural and public health sectors from exotic diseases. 

11 ‘‘(c) PROGRAM AND DIRECTOR.—

12 ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Under Secretary 

13 shall establish the Science and Technology Home14 land Security International Cooperative Program to 

15 facilitate international cooperative activities through16 out the Science and Technology Directorate. The 

17 Program shall be headed by a Director, who shall be 

18 selected by and shall report to the Under Secretary. 

19 ‘‘(2) RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DIRECTOR.—

20 ‘‘(A) DEVELOPMENT OF MECHANISMS.—

21 The Director shall be responsible for devel22 oping, in consultation with the Department of 

23 State and in coordination with other Federal 

24 agencies, mechanisms and legal frameworks to 

25 allow and to support international cooperative 
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1 activities in support of homeland security re2 search. 

3 ‘‘(B) IDENTIFICATION OF PARTNERS.—

4 The Director shall facilitate the matching of 

5 United States entities engaged in homeland se6 curity research with non-United States entities 

7 engaged in homeland security research so that 

8 they may partner in homeland security research 

9 activities. 

10 ‘‘(C) COORDINATION.—The Director shall 

11 ensure that the activities under this subsection 

12 are coordinated with those of other components 

13 of the Department and of other relevant re14 search agencies. 

15 ‘‘(D) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS.—

16 The Director, periodically, shall support the 

17 planning and execution of international home18 land security technology workshops and con19 ferences to improve contact among the inter20 national community of technology developers 

21 and to help establish direction for future tech22 nology goals. 

23 ‘‘(3) PROGRAM MANAGER AUTHORITY.—This 

24 subsection shall not be construed to limit the ability 

25 of a program manager to initiate or carry out inter-
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1 national cooperative activities provided that such ac2 tivities are appropriately coordinated with the Pro3 gram established under this subsection. 

4 ‘‘(d) BUDGET ALLOCATION.—There are authorized 

5 to be appropriated to the Secretary, to be derived from 

6 amounts otherwise authorized for the Directorate of 

7 Science and Technology, $25,000,000 for each of the fis8 cal years 2007 through 2010 for activities under this sec9 tion. 

10 ‘‘(e) REPORT TO CONGRESS ON INTERNATIONAL CO11 OPERATIVE ACTIVITIES.—

12 ‘‘(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 

13 days after the date of enactment of this section, the 

14 Under Secretary, acting through the Director, shall 

15 transmit to the Congress a report containing—

16 ‘‘(A) a brief description of each partner17 ship formed under subsection (b)(4), including 

18 the participants, goals, and amount and sources 

19 of funding; and 

20 ‘‘(B) a list of international cooperative ac21 tivities underway, including the participants, 

22 goals, expected duration, and amount and 

23 sources of funding, including resources provided 

24 to support the activities in lieu of direct fund25 ing. 
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1 ‘‘(2) UPDATES.—At the end of the fiscal year 

2 that occurs 5 years after the transmittal of the re3 port under subsection (a), and every 5 years there4 after, the Under Secretary, acting through the Di5 rector, shall transmit to the Congress an update of 

6 the report required under subsection (a).’’. 

7 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—The table 

8 of contents of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 

9 amended by adding after the item relating to section 313 

10 the following new item:

‘‘Sec. 314. Promoting antiterrorism through international cooperation program.’’.

Passed the House of Representatives September 26, 

2006. 

Attest:

Clerk. 
109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4942

AN ACT

To establish a capability and office to promote colocal governments. homeland security needs of Federal, State, and other high consequence events and to address the from, and mitigate against acts of terrorism and tended to detect, prevent, respond to, recover mercialization of high-priority technologies in- focused on the research, development, and com- the purpose of engaging in cooperative endeavors and its allies in the global war on terrorism for operation between entities of the United States