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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Homeland Security 
Science and Technology Authorization Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. References. 
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE II—MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
Sec. 201. Research prioritization and requirements; professional development; 
milestones and feedback. 
Sec. 202. Testing, evaluation, and standards. 
Sec. 203. External review. 
Sec. 204. Office of Public-Private Partnerships. 
TITLE III—REPORTS 
Sec. 301. Directorate of Science and Technology strategic plan. 
Sec. 302. Report on technology requirements. 
Sec. 303. Report on venture capital organization. 
TITLE IV—DIRECTORATE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
PROGRAMS 
Sec. 401. Limitations on research. 
Sec. 402. University-based centers. 
Sec. 403. Review of university-based centers. 
Sec. 404. Cybersecurity research and development. 
Sec. 405. National Research Council study of cybersecurity incentives. 
Sec. 406. Research on cyber compromise of infrastructure. 
Sec. 407. Dual-use terrorist risks from synthetic genomics. 
Sec. 408. Underwater tunnel security demonstration project. 
Sec. 409. Threats research and development. 
Sec. 410. Maritime domain awareness and maritime security technology test, 
evaluation, and transition capabilities. 
Sec. 411. Rapid biological threat detection and identification. 
Sec. 412. Educating the public about radiological threats. 
Sec. 413. Rural resilience initiative. 
Sec. 414. Sense of Congress regarding the need for interoperability standards 
for Internet protocol video surveillance technology. 
Sec. 415. Homeland Security Science and Technology Fellows Program. 
Sec. 416. Biological threat agent assay equivalency. 
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Sec. 417. Study of feasibility and benefit of expanding or establishing program 
to create a new cybersecurity capacity building track at certain 
institutions of higher education. 
Sec. 418. Sense of Congress regarding centers of excellence. 
Sec. 419. Assessment, research, testing, and evaluation of technologies to miti-
gate the threat of small vessel attack. 
Sec. 420. Research and development projects. 
Sec. 421. National Urban Security Technology Laboratory. 
Sec. 422. Homeland security science and technology advisory committee. 
TITLE V—DOMESTIC NUCLEAR DETECTION OFFICE 
Sec. 501. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 502. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office oversight. 
Sec. 503. Strategic plan and funding allocations for global nuclear detection ar-
chitecture. 
Sec. 504. Radiation portal monitor alternatives. 
Sec. 505. Authorization of Securing the Cities Initiative. 
TITLE VI—CLARIFYING AMENDMENTS 
Sec. 601. Federally funded research and development centers. 
Sec. 602. Elimination of Homeland Security Institute. 
Sec. 603. GAO study of the implementation of the statutory relationship be-
tween the Department and the Department of Energy national 
laboratories. 
Sec. 604. Technical changes. 
TITLE VII—COMMISSION ON THE PROTECTION OF CRITICAL 
ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC INFRASTRUCTURES 
Sec. 701. Commission on the Protection of Critical Electric and Electronic In-
frastructures. 
TITLE VIII—BORDER SECURITY TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION 
Sec. 801. Ensuring research activities of the Department of Homeland Security 
include appropriate concepts of operation. 
Sec. 802. Report on basic research needs for border and maritime security. 
Sec. 803. Incorporating unmanned aerial vehicles into border and maritime air-
space. 
Sec. 804. Establishing a research program in tunnel detection. 
Sec. 805. Research in document security and authentication technologies. 
Sec. 806. Study on global positioning system technologies. 
Sec. 807. Study of mobile biometric technologies at the border. 
Sec. 808. Authorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COM-
MITTEE.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittee’’ means the Committee on Homeland Security 
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and the Committee on Science and Technology of 
the House of Representatives and any committee of 
the House of Representatives or the Senate having 
legislative jurisdiction under the rules of the House 
of Representatives or Senate, respectively, over the 
matter concerned. 
(2) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 
means the Department of Homeland Security. 
(3) DIRECTORATE.—The term ‘‘Directorate’’ 
means the Directorate of Science and Technology of 
the Department. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
(5) UNDER
SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Under 
Secretary’’ means the Under Secretary for Science 
and Technology of the Department. 
SEC. 4. REFERENCES. 
Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in 
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a provision, the ref-
erence shall be considered to be made to a provision of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et 
seq.). 
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TITLE I—AUTHORIZATION OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 101. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Under 
Secretary $1,121,664,000 for fiscal year 2011 and 
$1,155,313,920 for fiscal year 2012 for the necessary ex-
penses of the Directorate. 
TITLE II—MANAGEMENT AND 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 201. RESEARCH PRIORITIZATION AND REQUIRE-
MENTS; 
PROFESSIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT; 
MILESTONES AND FEEDBACK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III (6 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sec-
tions: 
‘‘SEC. 318. RESEARCH PRIORITIZATION AND REQUIRE-
MENTS. 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) by not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this section, establish requirements 
for how basic and applied homeland security re-
search shall be identified, prioritized, funded, tasked, 
and evaluated by the Directorate of Science and 
Technology, including the roles and responsibilities 
of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, 
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the Under Secretary for Policy, the Under Secretary 
for Management, the Director of the Office of Risk 
Management and Analysis, the Director of the Do-
mestic Nuclear Detection Office, and the heads of 
operational components of the Department; and 
‘‘(2) to the greatest extent possible, seek to 
publicize the requirements for the purpose of inform-
ing the Federal, State, and local governments, first 
responders, and the private sector. 
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—In the requirements, the Secretary 
shall— 
‘‘(1) identify the Directorate of Science and 
Technology’s customers within and outside of the 
Department; 
‘‘(2) describe the risk formula and risk assess-
ment tools, including the risk assessment required 
under subsection (e)(1) that the Department con-
siders to identify, prioritize, and fund homeland se-
curity research projects; 
‘‘(3) describe the considerations to be used by 
the Directorate to task projects to research entities, 
including the national laboratories, federally funded 
research and development centers, and university- 
based centers; 
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‘‘(4) describe the protocols to be used to assess 
off-the-shelf technology to determine if an identified 
homeland security capability gap can be addressed 
through the acquisition process instead of com-
mencing research and development of technology to 
address that capability gap; 
‘‘(5) describe the processes to be used by the 
Directorate to strengthen first responder participa-
tion in identifying and prioritizing homeland security 
technological gaps, including by— 
‘‘(A) soliciting feedback from appropriate 
national associations and advisory groups rep-
resenting the first responder community and 
first responders within the components of the 
Department; and 
‘‘(B) establishing and promoting a publicly 
accessible portal to allow the first responder 
community to help the Directorate develop 
homeland security research and development 
goals; 
‘‘(6) describe a mechanism to publicize the De-
partment’s funded and unfunded homeland security 
technology priorities; and 
‘‘(7) include such other requirements, policies, 
and practices as the Secretary considers necessary. 
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‘‘(c) ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF THE RESEARCH 
PRIORITIZATION AND REQUIREMENTS.—Not later than 
one year after the date of the issuance of the require-
ments, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) carry out the requirements of subsection 
(a); 
‘‘(2) 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 ca-
pability gaps that may be addressed by a techno-
logical solution based on the assessment required 
under section 319(a)(2); 
‘‘(3) establish a system to collect feedback from 
customers of the Directorate on the performance of 
the Directorate; and 
‘‘(4) any other activities that the Secretary con-
siders to be necessary to implement the require-
ments. 
‘‘(d) BIANNUAL UPDATES ON IMPLEMENTATION.— 
One hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment 
of this section, and on a biannually basis thereafter, the 
Inspector General of the Department shall submit a bian-
nually update to the appropriate congressional committees 
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on the status of implementation of the research 
prioritization and requirements and activities in support 
of such requirements. 
‘‘(e) RISK ASSESSMENT.—The Secretary shall— 
‘‘(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 car-
ried out by the Secretary, describing and 
prioritizing the greatest risks to the homeland, 
that includes vulnerability studies, asset values 
(including asset values for intangible assets), 
estimated rates of occurrence, countermeasures 
employed, loss expectancy, cost/benefit analyses, 
and other practices generally associated with 
producing a comprehensive risk assessment; 
‘‘(B) an analysis of the Directorate’s ap-
proach to mitigating the homeland security 
risks 
identified 
under 
subparagraph 
(A) 
through basic and applied research, develop-
ment, demonstration, testing, and evaluation 
activities, as appropriate; 
‘‘(C) an analysis, based on statistics and 
metrics, of the effectiveness of the Directorate 
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in reducing the homeland security risks identi-
fied under subparagraph (A) through the de-
ployment of homeland security technologies re-
searched or developed by the Directorate, as ap-
propriate; 
‘‘(D) 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, including recommendations for how the 
Directorate should modify or amend its existing 
research and development activities, including 
for purposes of reducing the risks to the home-
land identified under subparagraph (A); and 
‘‘(E) a description of input from other rel-
evant Federal, State, or local agencies and rel-
evant private sector entities in conducting the 
risk assessment 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)(A) to 
the media as well as directly to the public, both on 
an ongoing basis and during a terrorist attack or 
other incident. 
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‘‘(f) REPORT ON HSARPA ACTIVITIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Consistent with the Fed-
eral Acquisition Regulation and any other relevant 
Federal requirements, not later than 60 days after 
the date of enactment of this subsection and annu-
ally thereafter, the Secretary shall submit a report 
to the appropriate congressional committees con-
taining the research, development, testing, evalua-
tion, prototyping, and deployment activities under-
taken by the Homeland Security Advanced Research 
Projects Agency during the previous fiscal year, in-
cluding funds expended for such activities in the pre-
vious fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—For each activity under-
taken, the report shall— 
‘‘(A) describe, as appropriate, the cor-
responding 
risk 
identified 
in 
subsection 
(e)(1)(A) that supports the decision to under-
take that activity; and 
‘‘(B) describe any efforts made to transi-
tion that activity into a Federal, State, or local 
acquisition program. 
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary 
shall include in each report a description of each 
proposal that was reviewed in the period covered by 
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the report by the Director of the Homeland Security 
Advanced Research Projects Agency under section 
313(d)(3), including a statement of whether the pro-
posal received a grant, cooperative agreement, or 
contract from the Director. 
‘‘SEC. 319. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 
‘‘(a) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Sixty days before 
establishing the mandatory workforce program as required 
by section 318(c)(2), the Secretary shall report to the ap-
propriate congressional committees on the following: 
‘‘(1) A description of how homeland security 
technological requirements are developed by the Di-
rectorate of Science and Technology’s customers 
within the Department. 
‘‘(2) A description of the training that should 
be provided to the Directorate’s customers in the 
Department under the mandatory workforce pro-
gram to allow them to identify, express, and 
prioritize homeland security capability gaps. 
‘‘(3) A plan for how the Directorate, in coordi-
nation with the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office 
and other Department components, can enhance and 
improve technology requirements development and 
the technology acquisition process, to accelerate the 
delivery of effective, suitable technologies that meet 
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