‘‘(2) consider multiple deployment strategies in-
cluding surge capability; 
‘‘(3) provide information to participating lab-
oratories and programs for their use in monitoring 
public health, and biological material or other data 
from those detectors to participating laboratories 
and programs for testing and evaluation; 
‘‘(4) regularly communicate with, and provide 
information about the presence of biological agents 
to, appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies re-
sponsible for public health, law enforcement, and 
emergency services, in a manner that ensures trans-
parency with the governments served by such per-
sonnel; 
‘‘(5) provide advanced planning tools, concepts 
of operations (including alarm resolution protocols 
and response guidance), and training exercises (in-
cluding in collaboration with relevant national level 
exercises) for collective response to and recovery 
from biological attacks; and 
‘‘(6) provide technical assistance to jurisdictions 
hosting the program to improve their ability to re-
spond to a detected pathogen. 
‘‘(b) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—Under the pro-
gram required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall— 
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‘‘(1) enter into memoranda of agreement or 
interagency agreements under the Economy Act of 
1933 (31 U.S.C. 1535 et seq.) with the Director of 
the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, and the heads of other Federal departments 
and agencies, setting forth roles and responsibilities, 
including with respect to validating performance and 
developing testing protocols for participating labora-
tories and coordination with appropriate State, local, 
and tribal agencies; 
‘‘(2) establish criteria for determining whether 
plans for biological detector capabilities and coverage 
sufficiently protect the United States population, 
and make such determinations on an annual basis; 
‘‘(3) acting through the Under Secretary for 
Science and Technology, and in consultation with 
the heads of other relevant departments and agen-
cies, implement a process for establishing assay per-
formance standards and evaluation for equivalency 
for biological threat assays, that— 
‘‘(A) evaluates biological threat detection 
assays, their protocols for use, and their associ-
ated response algorithms for confirmation of bi-
ological threat agents, taking performance 
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measures and concepts of operation into consid-
eration; 
‘‘(B) develops peer-reviewed assay perform-
ance and equivalency standards based on the 
findings of the evaluation under subparagraph 
(A); 
‘‘(C) requires implementation of the stand-
ards developed under subparagraph (B) for all 
Department biological detection programs; 
‘‘(D) makes such standards available and 
promotes their use to support all other Federal 
biological detection programs; and 
‘‘(E) is updated as necessary; and 
‘‘(4) prior to acquiring and deploying biodetec-
tion technology, require— 
‘‘(A) a cost-benefit analysis, including an 
analysis of alternatives, that shall be informed 
by the terrorism risk assessments under section 
503; 
‘‘(B) operational testing and evaluation; 
and 
‘‘(C) operational assessment by the end 
users of the technology. 
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‘‘(c) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may 
enter into contracts with participating laboratories and 
programs for— 
‘‘(1) the provision of laboratory services or 
other biosurveillance activities as appropriate for 
purposes of this section on a fee-for-service basis or 
on a prepayment or other similar basis; and 
‘‘(2) administrative and other costs related to 
hosting program personnel and equipment in these 
laboratories or programs. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘participating laboratory’ means 
a laboratory that has been accepted as a member of 
the Laboratory Response Network for Bioterrorism 
that— 
‘‘(A) is fully equipped to detect and re-
spond quickly to acts of biological terrorism; 
‘‘(B) provides biocontainment and micro-
biological analysis in support of the Department 
and relevant law enforcement agencies with re-
sponsibilities for investigating biological inci-
dents; and 
‘‘(C) supports threat agent characteriza-
tion studies and assay evaluation, research and 
development. 
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‘‘(2) The term ‘assay’ means any scientific test 
that is designed to detect the presence of a biological 
threat agent that is of a type selected under criteria 
established by the Secretary.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is further amended by adding 
at the end of the items relating to such title the following: 
‘‘Sec. 2105. Detection of biological attacks.’’. 
SEC. 506. RAPID BIOLOGICAL THREAT DETECTION AND 
IDENTIFICATION AT PORTS OF ENTRY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title XXI of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002, as added by section 501 of this Act, is 
further amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2106. RAPID BIOLOGICAL THREAT DETECTION AND 
IDENTIFICATION AT PORTS OF ENTRY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity shall require the Under Secretary for Science and 
Technology, in consultation with the heads of other rel-
evant operational components of the Department of 
Homeland Security, to assess whether the development of 
technological screening capabilities for biological agents, 
pandemic influenza, and other infectious diseases should 
be undertaken by the Science and Technology Directorate 
to support entry and exit screening at ports of entry and 
for other homeland security purposes. 
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