I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4046 
To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy 
Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program 
providing for the establishment of Agriculture Cybersecurity Centers, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 17, 2025 
Mr. NUNN of Iowa (for himself and Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, 
and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary 
of Agriculture to establish a program providing for the 
establishment of Agriculture Cybersecurity Centers, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cybersecurity in Agri-
culture Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. AGRICULTURE CYBERSECURITY CENTERS. 
Subtitle K of the National Agricultural Research, Ex-
tension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3319 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1473I. AGRICULTURE CYBERSECURITY CENTERS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Director of the National Institute of Food and Agri-
culture, and in consultation with the Secretary of Home-
land Security, shall establish a program under which the 
Secretary will— 
‘‘(1) on a competitive basis, award grants to, or 
enter into cooperative agreements with, eligible enti-
ties to establish 5 Regional Agriculture Cybersecu-
rity Centers to carry out research, development, and 
education on agriculture cybersecurity, with respect 
to seed agriculture, horticulture, animal agriculture, 
and the agriculture supply chain; 
‘‘(2) establish a national network of such Re-
gional Agricultural Cybersecurity Centers; and 
‘‘(3) designate one college or university to co-
ordinate the activities of such national network. 
‘‘(b) DUTIES.—A Regional Agriculture Cybersecurity 
Center shall— 
‘‘(1) conduct research on cybersecurity systems 
for the agriculture sector, including developing cy-
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bersecurity situational awareness systems to monitor 
cybersecurity threats, intrusions, and anomalies; 
‘‘(2) develop a security operations center for the 
agriculture sector to analyze cybersecurity threats, 
intrusions, and anomalies and to recommend mitiga-
tion actions; 
‘‘(3) develop cybersecurity technologies and 
tools for the agricultural sector, including domain- 
specific intrusion and anomaly detection systems, 
domain-specific intrusion prevention systems, do-
main specific role-based access control and user au-
thentication systems, lightweight device authentica-
tion protocols, and secure network architectures; 
‘‘(4) build live cybersecurity testbeds to assess 
and refine cybersecurity technologies, tools, and sys-
tems developed for the agricultural sector; 
‘‘(5) conduct attack/defense exercises to validate 
and evaluate cybersecurity solutions for field deploy-
ment and agriculture industry adoption; 
‘‘(6) develop cybersecurity education and train-
ing programs for agricultural stakeholders; 
‘‘(7) conduct cybersecurity training using the 
testbeds referred to in paragraph (4); and 
‘‘(8) build a regional research and development 
collaboration network. 
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‘‘(c) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—In this section, the term 
‘eligible entity’ means a college or university that has pro-
grams in food and agriculture sciences and cybersecurity 
that coordinates regional industry partners, cooperatives, 
government authorities 
and 
other 
stakeholders 
to 
strengthen security, privacy and resiliency, bolster the 
independent networks, and develop a skilled workforce. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.’’. 
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