‘‘(1) establish, through the Under Secretary for 
Science and Technology and Under Secretary for 
Management, a mandatory workforce program for the 
Directorate’s customers in the Department to better 
identify and prioritize homeland security capability 
gaps that may be addressed by a technological solu-
tion based on the assessment required under section 
239(a)(2); 
‘‘(2) establish a system to collect feedback from 
customers of the Directorate on the performance of the 
Directorate, that includes metrics for measuring cus-
tomer satisfaction and the usefulness of any tech-
nology or service provided by the Directorate; and 
‘‘(3) any other activities that the Secretary con-
siders to be necessary to implement the requirements. 
‘‘(d) QUARTERLY UPDATES ON IMPLEMENTATION.— 
One hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment 
of this section, and on a quarterly basis thereafter, the In-
spector General of the Department shall submit a quarterly 
update to the appropriate congressional committees on the 
status of implementation of the research prioritization and 
requirements and activities in support of such require-
ments. 
‘‘(e) RISK ANALYSIS.—In carrying out subsection 
(b)(2), the Secretary shall— 
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‘‘(1) submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees by not later than one year after the date 
of enactment of this subsection and annually there-
after— 
‘‘(A) a national-level risk assessment, de-
scribing and prioritizing the greatest risks to the 
homeland, that includes vulnerability studies, 
asset values (including asset values for intangible 
assets), estimated rates of occurrence, counter-
measures employed, loss expectancy, cost/benefit 
analyses, and other practices generally associated 
with producing a comprehensive risk analysis; 
‘‘(B) an analysis of the Directorate’s ap-
proach to mitigating the homeland security risks 
identified under subparagraph (A) through basic 
and applied research, development, demonstra-
tion, testing, and evaluation activities; 
‘‘(C) an analysis, based on statistics and 
metrics, of the effectiveness of the Directorate in 
reducing the homeland security risks identified 
under subparagraph (A) through the deployment 
of homeland security technologies researched or 
developed by the Directorate; 
‘‘(D) recommendations for how the Direc-
torate should modify or amend its research and 
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development activities in order to reduce the 
risks to the homeland identified under subpara-
graph (A); 
‘‘(E) a description of how the analysis re-
quired under subparagraph (A) shall be used to 
inform, guide, and prioritize the Department’s 
homeland security research and development ac-
tivities; and 
‘‘(F) a description of input from other rel-
evant Federal, State, or local agencies and rel-
evant private sector entities in conducting the 
risk analysis required by subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(2) conduct research and development on ways 
to most effectively communicate information regard-
ing the risks identified under paragraph (1) to the 
media as well as directly to the public, both on an on-
going basis and during a terrorist attack or other in-
cident. 
‘‘(f) REPORT ON HSARPA ACTIVITIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Consistent with the Federal 
Acquisition Regulation and any other relevant Fed-
eral requirements, not later than 60 days after the 
date of enactment of this subsection and annually 
thereafter, the Secretary shall submit a report to the 
appropriate congressional committees containing the 
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research, development, testing, evaluation, proto-
typing, and deployment activities undertaken by the 
Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agen-
cy during the previous fiscal year, including funds 
expended for such activities in the previous fiscal 
year. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—For each activity undertaken, 
the report shall— 
‘‘(A) describe the corresponding risk anal-
ysis performed by the Department that supports 
the decision to undertake that activity; and 
‘‘(B) describe the efforts made to transition 
that activity into a Federal, State, or local ac-
quisition program. 
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL
ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary 
shall include in each report a description of each pro-
posal that was reviewed in the period covered by the 
report by the Director of the Homeland Security Ad-
vanced Research Projects Agency under section 
313(d)(3), including a statement of whether the pro-
posal received a grant, cooperative agreement, or con-
tract from the Director. 
‘‘SEC. 239. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 
‘‘(a) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Sixty days before 
establishing the mandatory workforce program as required 
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by section 238(c)(1), the Secretary shall report to the appro-
priate congressional committees on the following: 
‘‘(1) A description of how homeland security 
technological requirements are developed by the Direc-
torate of Science and Technology’s customers within 
the Department. 
‘‘(2) An assessment of whether Department em-
ployees receive adequate and appropriate job training 
to allow them to identify, express, and prioritize 
homeland security capability gaps. 
‘‘(3) A plan for how the Directorate, in coordina-
tion with the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and 
other Department components, can enhance and im-
prove technology requirements development and the 
technology acquisition process, to accelerate the deliv-
ery of effective, suitable technologies that meet per-
formance requirements and appropriately address an 
identified homeland security capability gap. 
‘‘(4) An assessment of whether Congress should 
authorize, in addition to the program required under 
section 238(c)(1), a training program for Department 
employees to be trained in requirements writing and 
acquisition, that— 
‘‘(A) is prepared in consultation with the 
Department of Veterans Affairs Acquisition 
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