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(1) complete an inventory of the Department’s
entire information technology infrastructure;
(2) devise and deploy a secure comprehensive en-
terprise architecture that—
(A) promotes interoperability of homeland
security information systems, including commu-
nications systems, for agencies within and out-
side the Department;
(B) avoids unnecessary duplication; and
(C) aids rapid and appropriate information
exchange, retrieval, and collaboration at all lev-
els of government;
(3) consolidate multiple overlapping and incon-
sistent terrorist watch lists, reconcile different policies
and procedures governing whether and how terrorist
watch list data are shared with other agencies and or-
ganizations, and resolve fundamental differences in
the design of the systems that house the watch lists so
as to achieve consistency and expeditious access to ac-
curate, complete, and current information;
(4) ensure that the Department’s enterprise ar-
chitecture and the information systems leveraged, de-
veloped, managed, and acquired under such enterprise
architecture are capable of rapid deployment, limit
data access only to authorized users in a highly se-
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cure environment, and are capable of continuous sys-
tem upgrades to benefit from advances in technology
while preserving the integrity of stored data; and
(5) align common information technology invest-
ments within the Department and between the De-
partment and other Federal, State, and local agencies
responsible for homeland security to minimize incon-
sistent and duplicate acquisitions and expenditures.
SEC. 624. No funds in this Act shall be available for
any contract entered into after the date of enactment of this
Act by the Department of Homeland Security with—
(1) an inverted domestic corporation (as defined
in section 835 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(Public Law 107–296; 6 U.S.C. 395)),
(2) any corporation which completed a plan (or
series of transactions) described in such section before,
on, or after the date of enactment of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296; 6 U.S.C.
395), or
(3) any subsidiary of a corporation described in
paragraph (1) or (2).
SEC. 625. It is the sense of the Senate that the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security’s Undersecretary for Science
and Technology should take all appropriate steps to ensure
the active participation of historically black colleges and
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universities, tribal colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions,
and Alaskan Native serving institutions in Department
sponsored university research.
SEC. 626. (a) Not later than 120 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the
House of Representatives a plan for enhancements of the
operations of the Information Analysis and Infrastructure
Protection Directorate in order to—
(1) meet the personnel requirements of the Direc-
torate;
(2) improve communications between the Direc-
torate and the intelligence community; and
(3) improve coordination between the Directorate
and State and local counterterrorism and law en-
forcement officials.
(b) In addition to the matters specified in subsection
(a), the plan shall include a description of the current assets
and capabilities of the Information Analysis and Infra-
structure Protection Directorate, a strategy for the Direc-
torate for the coordination and dissemination of intelligence
and other information, and a schedule for the implementa-
tion of the plan required under subsection (a).
SEC. 627. Not later than 90 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall conduct
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a review and report to Congress on all of the data-mining
programs relating to law enforcement and terrorism cur-
rently under development and in use in the Department
of Homeland Security.
SEC. 628. When establishing priorities for firefighting
vehicles in the Firefighter Assistance Grants program, the
Secretary shall take into consideration the unique geo-
graphical needs of individual fire departments.
SEC. 629. Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security
shall conduct a study and submit a report with rec-
ommendations to the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate regarding the status of the air traffic
control communications voids and gaps in tethered aerostat
coverage around the United States, such as those existing
in the central Gulf of Mexico.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Home-
land Security Appropriations Act, 2004’’.
Attest:
Secretary.