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‘‘(f) TRAINING.—The Secretary shall develop a train-
ing program for acquisitions staff in the use of other 
transaction authority to help ensure the appropriate use 
of such authority. 
‘‘(g) REVIEW AUTHORITY.—The exercise of other 
transaction authority shall be subject to review by the 
Comptroller General of the United States to ensure that 
an agency is not attempting to avoid the requirements of 
procurement statutes and regulations. 
‘‘(h) OTHER TRANSACTION AUTHORITY DEFINED.— 
In this section the term ‘other transaction authority’ 
means authority under subsection (a).’’. 
SEC. 421. NATIONAL URBAN SECURITY TECHNOLOGY LAB-
ORATORY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The National Urban Security 
Technology Laboratory (formerly the Environmental 
Measurements Laboratory) is authorized within the Direc-
torate for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Under Secretary shall 
utilize the National Urban Security Technology Labora-
tory to test, evaluate, and analyze homeland security capa-
bilities and serve as a technical authority to first respond-
ers and State and local entities, including by— 
(1) conducting test programs, pilots projects, 
demonstrations, and other forms of evaluations of 
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homeland security technologies both in the field and 
in the laboratory; 
(2) applying knowledge of operational end-user 
environments and support for operational integration 
to technology development, including— 
(A) training; 
(B) exercises; 
(C) equipment; 
(D) tactics; 
(E) techniques; and 
(F) procedures; 
(3) representing interests and requirements be-
tween technology developers and operational end- 
users; and 
(4) supporting development and use of home-
land security equipment and operational standards. 
SEC. 422. HOMELAND SECURITY SCIENCE AND TECH-
NOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
Section 301 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 191) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(a) There is established within the Department a 
science and technology advisory committee (in this section 
referred to as the ‘advisory committee’). The advisory 
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committee shall make recommendations with respect to 
the activities of the under secretary for science and tech-
nology, including— 
‘‘(1) identifying research areas of potential im-
portance to the security of the Nation; and 
‘‘(2) providing advice in developing and updat-
ing the strategic plan required under section 318.’’. 
(2) by striking subsection (j). 
TITLE V—DOMESTIC NUCLEAR 
DETECTION OFFICE 
SEC. 501. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated for the Do-
mestic Nuclear Detection Office of the Department— 
(1) $305,840,000 for fiscal year 2011; and 
(2) $315,005,000 for fiscal year 2012. 
SEC. 502. DOMESTIC NUCLEAR DETECTION OFFICE OVER-
SIGHT. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Directorate should conduct basic and inno-
vative research and nondevelopmental testing on behalf of 
the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (in this section re-
ferred to as ‘‘DNDO’’), in order to advance next genera-
tion nuclear detection technologies. 
(b) INTERNAL REVIEW OF PROJECT SELECTION AND 
EVALUATION METHODOLOGY.—Not later than 90 days 
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after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of 
the DNDO, the Under Secretary, and the heads of all 
operational components of the Department that own, oper-
ate, or maintain nuclear or radiological detection equip-
ment shall begin an internal review of the methodology 
by which research, development, testing, and evaluation is 
identified, prioritized, and funded within the Department. 
(c) CONTENTS OF REVIEW.—In carrying out the re-
view under subsection (b), the Director of the DNDO 
shall— 
(1) identify the process by which basic and ap-
plied research and operational testing that should be 
conducted in concert and under agreement with the 
Directorate; 
(2) describe the roles, responsibilities, common 
definitions, standard operating procedures, and deci-
sion process for research, development, testing, and 
evaluation activities; 
(3) describe and implement a transparent sys-
tem for tracking research, development, testing, and 
evaluation requirements; 
(4) describe and implement a mechanism to 
provide regular updates to components of the De-
partment on the progress of such research; 
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(5) evaluate the degree to which needs of the 
operational components of the Department and 
State and local first responders are being adequately 
addressed by the existing project selection process, 
and if not, how such process can be improved; 
(6) establish a method to collect and evaluate 
Department component feedback; 
(7) utilize departmental matrices and systems 
to determine if technologies produced by the Direc-
torate have enhanced the ability of Department com-
ponents to perform their missions; 
(8) identify appropriate five-year levels of in-
vestment in basic and applied research and develop-
ment, in particular among the Department labora-
tories, federally funded research and development 
centers, university-based centers, Department of En-
ergy national laboratories, and other Federal labora-
tories; 
(9) project balance of use of the entities re-
ferred to in paragraph (8) among the Directorate 
and other Department components; and 
(10) establish a formal merit review process, 
with external peer review where appropriate. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the com-
pletion of the review required by subsection (b), the Direc-
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