thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 (Public Law
107–107; 115 Stat. 1199)) established jointly by the
Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central In-
telligence; and
(4) the Secretary shall ensure that any material
received pursuant to this section is protected from
unauthorized disclosure and handled and used only
for the performance of official duties, and that any
intelligence information shared under this section
shall be transmitted, retained, and disseminated con-
sistent with the authority of the Director of Central
Intelligence to protect intelligence sources and meth-
ods under the National Security Act and related pro-
cedures or, as appropriate, similar authorities of the
Attorney General concerning sensitive law enforce-
ment information.
SEC. 204. PROCEDURES FOR SHARING INFORMATION.
The Secretary shall establish procedures on the use
of information shared under this title that—
(1) limit the redissemination of such informa-
tion to ensure that it is not used for an unauthor-
ized purpose;
(2) ensure the security and confidentiality of
such information;
(3) protect the constitutional and statutory
rights of any individuals who are subjects of such in-
formation; and
(4) provide data integrity through the timely re-
moval and destruction of obsolete or erroneous
names and information.
SEC. 205. PRIVACY OFFICER.
The Secretary shall appoint a senior official in the
Department to assume primary responsibility for privacy
policy, including—
(1) assuring that the use of technologies sus-
tain, and do not erode, privacy protections relating
to the use, collection, and disclosure of personal in-
formation;
(2) assuring that personal information con-
tained in Privacy Act systems of records is handled
in full compliance with fair information practices as
set out in the Privacy Act of 1974;
(3) evaluating legislative and regulatory pro-
posals involving collection, use, and disclosure of
personal information by the Federal Government;
(4) conducting a privacy impact assessment of
proposed rules of the Department or that of the De-
partment on the privacy of personal information, in-
cluding the type of personal information collected
and the number of people affected; and
(5) preparing a report to Congress on an an-
nual basis on activities of the Department that af-
fect privacy, including complaints of privacy viola-
tions, implementation of the Privacy Act of 1974, in-
ternal controls, and other matters.
SEC. 206. FEDERAL CYBERSECURITY PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through the
Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastruc-
ture Protection, shall establish and manage a program to
improve the security of Federal critical information sys-
tems, including carrying out responsibilities under para-
graphs (2) and (3) of section 201 that relate to such sys-
tems.
(b) DUTIES.—The duties of the Secretary under sub-
section (a) are—
(1) to evaluate the increased use by civilian ex-
ecutive agencies of techniques and tools to enhance
the security of Federal critical information systems,
including, as appropriate, consideration of cryptog-
raphy;
(2) to provide assistance to civilian executive
agencies in protecting the security of Federal critical
information systems, including identification of sig-
nificant risks to such systems; and
(3) to coordinate research and development for
critical information systems relating to supervisory
control and data acquisition systems, including, as
appropriate, the establishment of a test bed.
(c) FEDERAL
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
SECURITY
TEAM.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out subsection
(b)(2), the Secretary shall establish, manage, and
support a Federal information system security team
whose purpose is to provide technical expertise to ci-
vilian executive agencies to assist such agencies in
securing Federal critical information systems by con-
ducting information security audits of such systems,
including conducting tests of the effectiveness of in-
formation security control techniques and per-
forming logical access control tests of interconnected
computer systems and networks, and related vulner-
ability assessment techniques.
(2) TEAM MEMBERS.—The Secretary shall en-
sure that the team under paragraph (1) includes
technical experts and auditors, computer scientists,
and computer forensics analysts whose technical
competence enables the team to conduct audits
under such paragraph.
(3) AGENCY
AGREEMENTS
REGARDING
AU-
DITS.—Each civilian executive agency may enter into
an agreement with the team under paragraph (1) for
the conduct of audits under such paragraph of the
Federal critical information systems of the agency.
Such agreement shall establish the terms of the
audit and shall include provisions to minimize the
extent to which the audit disrupts the operations of
the agency.
(4) REPORTS.—Promptly after completing an
audit under paragraph (1) of a civilian executive
agency, the team under such paragraph shall pre-
pare a report summarizing the findings of the audit
and making recommendations for corrective action.
Such report shall be submitted to the Secretary, the
head of such agency, and the Inspector General of
the agency (if any), and upon request of any con-
gressional committee with jurisdiction over such
agency, to such committee.
(d) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘‘Federal critical information system’’ means an ‘‘in-
formation system’’ as defined in section 3502 of title 44,
United States Code, that—
(1) is, or is a component of, a key resource or
critical infrastructure;
(2) is used or operated by a civilian executive
agency or by a contractor of such an agency; and
(3) does not include any national security sys-
tem as defined in section 5142 of the Clinger-Cohen
Act of 1996.
SEC. 
207. 
ENHANCEMENT 
OF 
NON-FEDERAL
CYBERSECURITY.
In carrying out the responsibilities under section 201,
the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infra-
structure Protection shall—
(1) as appropriate, provide to State and local
government entities, and upon request to private
entitites that own or operate critical information
systems—
(A) analysis and warnings related to
threats to, and vulnerabilities of, critical infor-
mation systems; and
(B) in coordination with the Under Sec-
retary for Emergency Preparedness and Re-
sponse, crisis management support in response
to threats to, or attacks on, critical information
systems; and
(2) as appropriate, provide technical assistance,
upon request, to the private sector and other govern-
ment entities, in coordination with the Under Sec-
retary for Emergency Preparedness and Response,
with respect to emergency recovery plans to respond
to major failures of critical information systems.
SEC. 208. INFORMATION SECURITY.
In carrying out the responsibilities under section 201,
the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infra-
structure Protection shall—
(1) as appropriate, provide to State and local
government entities, and, upon request, to private
entities that own or operate critical information
systems—
(A) analysis and warnings related to
threats to, and vulnerabilities of, critical infor-
mation systems; and
(B) in coordination with the Under Sec-
retary for Emergency Preparedness and Re-
sponse, crisis management support in response
to threats to, or attacks on, critical information
systems; and
(2) as appropriate, provide technical assistance,
upon request, to the private sector and with other
government entities, in coordination with the Under
Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Re-
sponse, with respect to emergency recovery plans to
respond to major failures of critical information sys-
tems.
Subtitle B—Intelligence Analysis
Center
SEC. 211. INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS CENTER.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT; NFIP AGENCY.—(1) There is
established within the Department the Intelligence Anal-
ysis Center. The Under Secretary for Information Anal-
ysis and Infrastructure Protection shall be the head of the
Intelligence Analysis Center.
(2) The Intelligence Analysis Center is a program of
the intelligence community for purposes of the National
Foreign Intelligence Program (as defined in section 3(6)
of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.
401a(6))).
(b) FUNCTIONS.—The Under Secretary for Informa-
tion Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, through the
Intelligence Analysis Center, shall carry out the duties
specified in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (6), and (7) of section
201(b).
(c) DETAIL OF CERTAIN PERSONNEL.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary and the Di-
rector of Central Intelligence, the Secretary of De-
fense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State,
or the head of another agency or department as the
case may be, shall enter into cooperative arrange-
ments to provide for an appropriate number of indi-
viduals to be detailed to the Under Secretary to per-
form analytical functions and duties with respect to
the mission of the Department from the following
agencies:
(A) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(B) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(C) The National Security Agency.
(D) The National Imagery and Mapping
Agency.
(E) The Department of State.
(F) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
(G) Any other agency or department that
the President determines appropriate.
(2) TERMS
OF
DETAIL.—Any officer or em-
ployee of the United States or a member of the
Armed Forces who is detailed to the Under Sec-
retary under paragraph (1) shall be detailed on a re-
imbursable basis for a period of less than two years
for the performance of temporary functions as re-
quired by the Under Secretary.
(d) INCLUSION OF OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE AS AN
ELEMENT OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—Section
3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.
401a(4)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (I);
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (J) as sub-
paragraph (K); and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph:
‘‘(J) the Intelligence Analysis Center of the
Department of Homeland Security; and’’.
SEC. 212. MISSION OF THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS CEN-
TER.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The mission of the Intelligence
Analysis Center is as follows:
(1) ANALYSIS AND PRODUCTION.—
(A) Correlating and evaluating information
and intelligence related to the mission of the
Department collected from all sources available.
(B) Producing all-source collaborative in-
telligence analysis, warnings, tactical assess-
ments, and strategic assessments of the ter-
rorist threat and infrastructure vulnerabilities
of the United States.
(C) Providing appropriate dissemination of
such assessments.
(D) Improving the lines of communication
with respect to homeland security between the
Federal Government and State and local public
safety agencies and the private sector through
the timely dissemination of information per-
taining to threats of acts of terrorism against
the United States.
(2) COORDINATION OF INFORMATION.—Coordi-
nating with elements of the intelligence community
and with Federal, State, and local law enforcement
agencies, and the private sector as appropriate.
(3) ADDITIONAL
DUTIES.—Performing such
other functions as the Secretary may direct.
(b) STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL MISSIONS OF THE IN-
TELLIGENCE ANALYSIS CENTER.—The Under Secretary
shall conduct strategic and tactical assessments and warn-
ings through the Intelligence Analysis Center, including
research, analysis, and the production of assessments on
the following as they relate to the mission of the Depart-
ment:
(1) Domestic terrorism.
(2) International terrorism.
(3) Counterintelligence.
(4) Transnational crime.
(5) Proliferation of weapons of mass destruc-
tion.
(6) Illicit financing of terrorist activities.
(7) Cybersecurity and cybercrime.
(8) Key resources and critical infrastructures.
(c) STAFFING
OF
THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
CENTER.—
(1) FUNCTIONS TRANSFERRED.—In accordance
with title VIII, for purposes of carrying out this
title, there is transferred to the Under Secretary the
functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the fol-
lowing entities:
(A) The National Infrastructure Protection
Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(other than the Computer Investigations and
Operations Section).
(B) The Critical Infrastructure Assurance
Office of the Department of Commerce.
(C) The Federal Computer Incident Re-
sponse Center of the General Services Adminis-
tration.
(D) The National Infrastructure Simula-
tion and Analysis Center of the Department of
Energy.
(E) The National Communications System
of the Department of Defense.
(F) The intelligence element of the Coast
Guard.
(G) The intelligence element of the United
States Customs Service.
(H) The intelligence element of the Immi-
gration and Naturalization Service.
(I) The intelligence element of the Trans-
portation Security Administration.
(J) The intelligence element of the Federal
Protective Service.
(2) STRUCTURE.—It is the sense of Congress
that the Under Secretary should model the Intel-
ligence Analysis Center on the technical, analytic ap-
proach of the Information Dominance Center of the
Department of the Army to the maximum extent
feasible and appropriate.
SEC. 213. NET GUARD.
The Under Secretary for Information Analysis and
Infrastructure Protection may establish a national tech-
nology guard, to be known as ‘‘NET Guard’’, comprised
of local teams of volunteers with expertise in relevant
areas of science and technology, to assist local commu-
nities to respond and recover from attacks on information
systems and communications networks.
TITLE III—SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
SEC. 301. UNDER SECRETARY FOR SCIENCE AND TECH-
NOLOGY.
The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary
for Science and Technology, shall have responsibility for—
(1) developing, in consultation with other ap-
propriate executive agencies, a national policy and
strategic plan for, identifying priorities, goals, objec-
tives and policies for, and coordinating the Federal
Government’s civilian efforts to identify and develop
countermeasures to chemical, biological radiological,
nuclear and other emerging terrorist threats, includ-
ing the development of comprehensive, research-
based definable goals for such efforts and develop-
ment of annual measurable objectives and specific
targets to accomplish and evaluate the goals for
such efforts;
(2) establishing and administering the primary
research and development activities of the Depart-
ment, including the long-term research and develop-
ment needs and capabilities for all elements of the
Department;
(3) conducting basic and applied research, de-
velopment, demonstration, testing, and evaluation
activities that are relevant to any or all elements of
the Department, through both intramural and extra-
mural programs; provided that such responsibility
does not extend to human health-related research
and development activities;
(4) coordinating and integrating all research,
development, demonstration, testing, and evaluation
activities of the Department;
(5) coordinating with other appropriate execu-
tive agencies in developing and carrying out the
science and technology agenda of the Department to
reduce duplication and identify unmet needs;
(6) establishing Federal priorities for research,
development, demonstration, testing, and, as appro-
priate, procurement and transitional operation of
technology and systems—
(A) for preventing the importation of
chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
weapons and related materials;
(B) for detecting, preventing, and pro-
tecting against terrorist attacks that involve
such weapons or related materials; and
(C) for interoperability of communications
systems for emergency response providers;
(7) ensuring that the research, development,
demonstration, testing, and evaluation activities of
the Department are aligned with the Department’s
procurement needs;
(8) facilitating the deployment of technology
that will serve to enhance homeland security; and
(9) developing and overseeing the administra-
tion of guidelines for merit review of research and
development projects throughout the Department,
and for the dissemination of research conducted or
sponsored by the Department.
SEC. 302. FUNCTIONS TRANSFERRED.
In accordance with title VIII, there shall be trans-
ferred to the Secretary the functions, personnel, assets,
and obligations of the following:
(1) Programs and activities of the Department
of Energy, including the functions of the Secretary
of Energy relating thereto (but not including pro-
grams and activities relating to the strategic nuclear
defense posture of the United States), as follows:
(A) The programs and activities relating to
chemical and biological national security, and
supporting programs and activities directly re-
lated to homeland security, of the non-prolifera-
tion and verification research and development
program.
(B) The programs and activities relating to
nuclear smuggling, and other programs and ac-
tivities directly related to homeland security,
within the proliferation detection program of
the non-proliferation and verification research
and development program.
(C) Those aspects of the nuclear assess-
ment program of the international materials
protection and cooperation program that are di-
rectly related to homeland security.
(D) Such life sciences activities of the bio-
logical and environmental research program re-
lated to microbial pathogens as may be des-
ignated by the President for transfer to the De-
partment and that are directly related to home-
land security.
(E) The Environmental Measurements
Laboratory.
(F) The advanced scientific computing re-
search program and activities at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory.
(2) The homeland security projects within the
Chemical Biological Defense Program of the Depart-
ment of Defense known as the Biological Defense
Homeland Security Support Program and the Bio-
logical Counter-Terrorism Research Program.
SEC. 303. CONDUCT OF CERTAIN PUBLIC HEALTH-RELATED
ACTIVITIES.
With respect to civilian human health-related re-
search and development activities relating to counter-
measures for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
and other emerging terrorist threats carried out by the
Department of Health and Human Services (including the
Public Health Service), the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall set priorities, goals, objectives, and
policies and develop a coordinated strategy for such activi-
ties in collaboration with the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity to ensure consistency with the national policy and
strategic plan developed pursuant to section 301(1).
SEC. 304. FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH AND DEVELOP-
MENT CENTER.
The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary
for Science and Technology, shall have the authority to
establish or contract with one or more federally funded
research and development centers to provide independent
analysis of homeland security issues, or to carry out other
responsibilities under this Act, including coordinating and
integrating both the extramural and intramural programs
described in section 307.
SEC. 305. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
(a) CLASSIFICATION.—To the greatest extent prac-
ticable, research conducted or supported by the Depart-
ment shall be unclassified.
(b) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this title shall be
construed to preclude any Under Secretary of the Depart-
ment from carrying out research, development, demonstra-
tion, or deployment activities, as long as such activities
are coordinated through the Under Secretary for Science
and Technology.
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary, acting through
the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, may
issue necessary regulations with respect to research, devel-
opment, demonstration, testing, and evaluation activities
of the Department, including the conducting, funding, and
reviewing of such activities.
(d) 
NOTIFICATION
OF
PRESIDENTIAL
LIFE
SCIENCES DESIGNATIONS.—Not later than 60 days before
effecting any transfer of Department of Energy life
sciences activities pursuant to section 302(1)(D) of this
Act, the President shall notify the appropriate congres-
sional committees of the proposed transfer and shall in-
clude the reasons for the transfer and a description of the
effect of the transfer on the activities of the Department
of Energy.
SEC. 306. HOMELAND SECURITY SCIENCE AND TECH-
NOLOGY COORDINATION COUNCIL.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND COMPOSITION.—There is
established within the Department a Homeland Security
Science and Technology Coordination Council (in this sec-
tion referred to as the ‘‘Coordination Council’’). The Co-
ordination Council shall be composed of all the Under Sec-
retaries of the Department and any other Department of-
ficials designated by the Secretary, and shall be chaired
by the Under Secretary for Science and Technology. The
Coordination Council shall meet at the call of the chair.
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Coordination Council
shall—
(1) establish priorities for research, develop-
ment, demonstration, testing, and evaluation activi-
ties conducted or supported by the Department;
(2) ensure that the priorities established under
paragraph (1) reflect the acquisition needs of the
Department; and
(3) assist the Under Secretary for Science and
Technology in carrying out his responsibilities under
section 301(4).
SEC. 307. CONDUCT OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, DEM-
ONSTRATION, TESTING AND EVALUATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through the
Under Secretary for Science and Technology, shall carry
out the responsibilities under section 301(3) through both
extramural and intramural programs.
(b) EXTRAMURAL PROGRAMS.—(1) The Secretary,
acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Tech-
nology, shall operate extramural research, development,
demonstration, testing, and evaluation programs so as
to—
(A) ensure that colleges, universities, private re-
search institutes, and companies (and consortia
thereof) from as many areas of the United States as
practicable participate;
(B) ensure that the research funded is of high
quality, as determined through merit review proc-
esses developed under section 301(10); and
(C) distribute funds through grants, cooperative
agreements, and contracts through competitions that
are as open as possible.
(2)(A) The Secretary, acting through the Under Sec-
retary for Science and Technology, shall establish within
1 year of the date of enactment of this Act a university-
based center or centers for homeland security. The pur-
pose of this center or centers shall be to establish a coordi-
nated, university-based system to enhance the Nation’s
homeland security.
(B) In selecting colleges or universities as centers for
homeland security, the Secretary shall consider the fol-
lowing criteria:
(i) Demonstrated expertise in the training of
first responders.
(ii) Demonstrated expertise in responding to in-
cidents involving weapons of mass destruction and
biological warfare.
(iii) Demonstrated expertise in emergency med-
ical services.
(iv) Demonstrated expertise in chemical, bio-
logical, radiological, and nuclear countermeasures.
(v) Strong affiliations with animal and plant di-
agnostic laboratories.
(vi) Demonstrated expertise in food safety.
(vii) Affiliation with Department of Agriculture
laboratories or training centers.
(viii) Demonstrated expertise in water and
wastewater operations.
(ix) Demonstrated expertise in port and water-
way security.
(x) Demonstrated expertise in multi-modal
transportation.
(xi) Nationally recognized programs in informa-
tion security.
(xii) Nationally recognized programs in engi-
neering.
(xiii) Demonstrated expertise in educational
outreach and technical assistance.
(xiv) Demonstrated expertise in border trans-
portation and security.
(xv) Demonstrated expertise in interdisciplinary
public policy research and communication outreach
regarding science, technology, and public policy.
(C) The Secretary shall have the discretion to estab-
lish such centers and to consider additional criteria as nec-
essary to meet the evolving needs of homeland security
and shall report to Congress concerning the implementa-
tion of this paragraph as necessary.
(D) There are authorized to be appropriated such
sums as may be necessary to carry out this paragraph.
(c) INTRAMURAL PROGRAMS.—(1) In carrying out
the duties under section 301, the Secretary, acting
through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology,
may draw upon the expertise of any laboratory of the Fed-
eral Government, whether operated by a contractor or the
Government.
(2) The Secretary, acting through the Under Sec-
retary for Science and Technology, may establish a head-
quarters laboratory for the Department at any national
laboratory and may establish additional laboratory units
at other national laboratories.
(3) If the Secretary chooses to establish a head-
quarters laboratory pursuant to paragraph (2), then the
Secretary shall do the following:
(A) Establish criteria for the selection of the
headquarters laboratory in consultation with the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences, appropriate Federal
agencies, and other experts.
(B) Publish the criteria in the Federal Register.
(C) Evaluate all appropriate national labora-
tories against the criteria.
(D) Select a national laboratory on the basis of
the criteria.
(E) Report to the appropriate congressional
committees on which laboratory was selected, how
the selected laboratory meets the published criteria,
and what duties the headquarters laboratory shall
perform.
(4) No laboratory shall begin operating as the head-
quarters laboratory of the Department until at least 30
days after the transmittal of the report required by para-
graph (3)(E).
SEC. 308. TRANSFER OF PLUM ISLAND ANIMAL DISEASE
CENTER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
(a) TRANSFER REQUIRED.—In accordance with title
VIII, the Secretary of Agriculture shall transfer to the
Secretary of Homeland Security the Plum Island Animal
Disease Center of the Department of Agriculture, includ-
ing the assets and liabilities of the Center.
(b) CONTINUED DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AC-
CESS.—Upon the transfer of the Plum Island Animal Dis-
ease Center, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the
Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into an agreement to
ensure Department of Agriculture access to the center for
research, diagnostic, and other activities of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
(c) NOTIFICATION.—At least 180 days before any
change in the biosafety level at the facility described in
subsection (a), the President shall notify the Congress of
the change and describe the reasons therefor. No such
change may be made until at least 180 days after the com-
pletion of the transition period defined in section 801(2).
SEC. 309. HOMELAND SECURITY SCIENCE AND TECH-
NOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established within
the Department a Homeland Security Science and Tech-
nology Advisory Committee (in this section referred to as
the ‘‘Advisory Committee’’). The Advisory Committee
shall make recommendations with respect to the activities
of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, in-
cluding identifying research areas of potential importance
to the security of the Nation.
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—
(1) APPOINTMENT.—The Advisory Committee
shall consist of 20 members appointed by the Under
Secretary for Science and Technology, which shall
include emergency first-responders or representatives
of organizations or associations of emergency first-
responders. The Advisory Committee shall also in-
clude representatives of citizen groups, including
economically disadvantaged communities. The indi-
viduals appointed as members of the Advisory
Committee—
(A) shall be eminent in fields such as
emergency response, research, engineering, new
product development, business, and manage-
ment consulting;
(B) shall be selected solely on the basis of
established records of distinguished service;
(C) shall not be employees of the Federal
Government; and
(D) shall be so selected as to provide rep-
resentation of a cross-section of the research,
development, demonstration, and deployment
activities supported by the Under Secretary for
Science and Technology.
(2) 
NATIONAL
RESEARCH
COUNCIL.—The
Under Secretary for Science and Technology may
enter into an arrangement for the National Research
Council to select members of the Advisory Com-
mittee, but only if the panel used by the National
Research Council reflects the representation de-
scribed in paragraph (1).
(c) TERMS OF OFFICE.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this subsection, the term of office of each
member of the Advisory Committee shall be 3 years.
(2) ORIGINAL
APPOINTMENTS.—The original
members of the Advisory Committee shall be ap-
pointed to three classes of three members each. One
class shall have a term of one year, one a term of
two years, and the other a term of three years.
(3) VACANCIES.—A member appointed to fill a
vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term
for which the member’s predecessor was appointed
shall be appointed for the remainder of such term.
(d) ELIGIBILITY.—A person who has completed two
consecutive full terms of service on the Advisory Com-
mittee shall thereafter be ineligible for appointment during
the one-year period following the expiration of the second
such term.
(e) MEETINGS.—The Advisory Committee shall meet
at least quarterly at the call of the Chair or whenever one-
third of the members so request in writing. Each member
shall be given appropriate notice of the call of each meet-
ing, whenever possible not less than 15 days before the
meeting.
(f) QUORUM.—A majority of the members of the Ad-
visory Committee not having a conflict of interest in the
matter being considered by the Advisory Committee shall
constitute a quorum.
(g) CONFLICT OF INTEREST RULES.—The Advisory
Committee shall establish rules for determining when one
of its members has a conflict of interest in a matter being
considered by the Advisory Committee.
(h) REPORTS.—
(1) ANNUAL
REPORT.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall render an annual report to the Under
Secretary for Science and Technology for transmittal
to the Congress on or before January 31 of each
year. Such report shall describe the activities and
recommendations of the Advisory Committee during
the previous year.
(2) 
ADDITIONAL
REPORTS.—The 
Advisory
Committee may render to the Under Secretary for
transmittal to the Congress such additional reports
on specific policy matters as it considers appro-
priate.
(i) FACA EXEMPTION.—Section 14 of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act shall not apply to the Advisory
Committee.
SEC. 310. HOMELAND SECURITY INSTITUTE.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish
a federally funded research and development center to be
known as the ‘‘Homeland Security Institute’’ (in this sec-
tion referred to as the ‘‘Institute’’).
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Institute shall be admin-
istered as a separate entity by the Secretary.
(c) DUTIES.—The duties of the Institute shall be de-
termined by the Secretary, and may include the following:
(1) Systems analysis, risk analysis, and simula-
tion and modeling to determine the vulnerabilities of
the Nation’s critical infrastructures and the effec-
tiveness of the systems deployed to reduce those
vulnerabiblities.
(2) Economic and policy analysis to assess the
distributed costs and benefits of alternative ap-
proaches to enhancing security.
(3) Evaluation of the effectiveness of measures
deployed to enhance the security of institutions, fa-
cilities, and infrastructure that may be terrorist tar-
gets.
(4) Identification of instances when common
standards and protocols could improve the interoper-
ability and effective utilization of tools developed for
field operators and first responders.
(5) Assistance for Federal agencies and depart-
ments in establishing testbeds to evaluate the effec-
tiveness of technologies under development and to
assess the appropriateness of such technologies for
deployment.
(6) Design of metrics and use of those metrics
to evaluate the effectiveness of homeland security
programs throughout the Federal Government, in-
cluding all national laboratories.
(7) Design of and support for the conduct of
homeland security-related exercises and simulations.
(8) Creation of strategic technology develop-
ment plans to reduce vulnerabilities in the Nation’s
critical infrastructure and key resources.
(d) CONSULTATION ON INSTITUTE ACTIVITIES.—In
carrying out the duties described in subsection (c), the In-
stitute shall consult widely with representatives from pri-
vate industry, institutions of higher education, and non-
profit institutions.
(e) ANNUAL REPORTS.—The Institute shall transmit
to the Secretary and the Congress an annual report on
the activities of the Institute under this section.
SEC. 311. TECHNOLOGY CLEARINGHOUSE TO ENCOURAGE
AND SUPPORT INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO
ENHANCE HOMELAND SECURITY.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—The Secretary,
acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Tech-
nology, shall establish and promote a program to encour-
age technological innovation in facilitating the mission of
the Department (as described in section 101).
(b) ELEMENTS
OF PROGRAM.—The program de-
scribed in subsection (a) shall include the following compo-
nents: