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minations under this subsection shall be made on a 
full-time equivalent basis. 
‘‘(c) TERMINATION.—The authority to make appoint-
ments under this section shall cease to be available after 
January 1, 2017.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
101(b)) is further amended by adding at the end of the items 
relating to such subtitle the following: 
‘‘Sec. 847. Authority for flexible personnel management at the Science and Tech-
nology Directorate.’’. 
SEC. 714. INDEPENDENT TESTING AND EVALUATION OF 
HOMELAND 
SECURITY 
DETECTION 
TECH-
NOLOGIES. 
Section 308 (6 U.S.C. 188) is further amended by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(e) TEST AND EVALUATION PROGRAM FOR COMMER-
CIALLY AVAILABLE CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DETEC-
TION EQUIPMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall imple-
ment a test and evaluation program for commercially 
available chemical and biological detection equip-
ment. 
‘‘(2) 
FUNCTIONS.—The 
program 
established 
under paragraph (1) shall— 
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‘‘(A) evaluate, against national consensus 
standards and homeland security specific tech-
nical 
capability 
standards 
or 
performance 
metrics adopted by the Department to the great-
est extent practicable, the capability of commer-
cially available chemical and biological detection 
equipment to detect high risk biological agents 
and toxins and chemical agents and meet home-
land security mission requirements; 
‘‘(B) facilitate the accreditation or Depart-
ment acceptance of laboratories to be used for the 
testing and evaluation under subparagraph (A); 
‘‘(C) standardize test and reporting proto-
cols and procedures to be used by the laboratories 
under accredited under subparagraph (B); 
‘‘(D) provide for cost-sharing with tech-
nology manufacturers whereby manufacturers 
may pay for the testing and evaluation under 
subparagraph (A) by the laboratories accredited 
under subparagraph (B); 
‘‘(E) inform and enable expedited consider-
ation of compliant technology for designation or 
certification under subtitle G of title VIII; 
‘‘(F) inform Federal, State, local, tribal, 
and territorial government procurement and 
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grant decisions, including detection equipment 
placed on the authorized equipment list; and 
‘‘(G) provide, with permission from the 
manufacturer, results of the testing and evalua-
tion under subparagraph (A) and operationally 
relevant technical information on detection 
equipment to Department components, and other 
Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial gov-
ernments and first responders, including unclas-
sified information through the Responder Knowl-
edge Base.’’. 
SEC. 715. NORTHERN BORDER UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE 
PILOT PROJECT. 
(a) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—The Under Sec-
retary for Science and Technology, in conjunction with the 
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shall 
research and develop technologies to allow routine operation 
of medium-sized unmanned aerial vehicles, including au-
tonomously piloted drones, within the national airspace for 
border and maritime security missions without any deg-
radation of existing levels of security-related surveillance or 
of safety for all national airspace system users. 
(b) PILOT PROJECT.—No later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall commence 
a pilot project in segregated airspace along the northern 
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border to conduct experiments and collect data in order to 
accelerate the safe integration of medium-sized unmanned 
aircraft systems into the national airspace system. 
Subtitle B—Domestic Nuclear 
Detection Office 
SEC. 721. RADIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR DETECTION AND 
COUNTERMEASURES 
RESEARCH, 
DEVELOP-
MENT, TESTING, AND EVALUATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title XIX of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 591 et seq.) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new sections: 
‘‘SEC. 1908. RADIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR DETECTION AND 
COUNTERMEASURES 
RESEARCH, 
DEVELOP-
MENT, TESTING, AND EVALUATION. 
‘‘In carrying out radiological and nuclear research, de-
velopment, testing and evaluation activities required under 
section 1902, the Director for the Domestic Nuclear Detec-
tion Office shall— 
‘‘(1) have authorities and carry out responsibil-
ities consistent with those established under sections 
302, 305, 308, 309, 320, and 321 for all radiological 
and nuclear research, development, testing, and eval-
uation programs of the Department; and 
‘‘(2) utilize an appropriate iterative combination 
of physical tests and computer modeling to provide an 
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analytical basis for assessing detector performance of 
major radiological and nuclear detection acquisition 
programs of the Department. 
‘‘SEC. 1909. AWARENESS OF THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR DETEC-
TION ARCHITECTURE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the responsibil-
ities under paragraphs (3), (5), (8), and (9) of section 
1902(a), the Director shall maintain awareness of the Glob-
al Nuclear Detection Architecture (in this section referred 
to as ‘GNDA’) and its assets, including availability of 
equipment and trained personnel, types of equipment, 
equipment detection events and data, relevant intelligence 
information, and other information as needed. 
‘‘(b) DATA EXCHANGE.—To support the activities 
under subsection (a), the Director and heads of agencies in 
the GNDA shall ensure that widely accepted, consensus- 
based data exchange standards are applied to detection and 
communications systems incorporated into the GNDA, to 
the extent practicable.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) is amended by adding at the end of the items 
relating to such title the following: 
‘‘Sec. 1908. Radiological and nuclear detection and countermeasures research, de-
velopment, testing, and evaluation. 
‘‘Sec. 1909. Awareness of the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture.’’. 
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