establish the Department of Homeland Security Northern 
Border Mission Center. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Center shall be 
to serve as the Department’s forward deployed centralized 
operations support center for domain awareness, informa-
tion sharing, intelligence, training, and stakeholder en-
gagement with Federal, State, tribal, local, and inter-
national government partners along the northern border 
of the United States. 
(c) LOCATION.—The Center shall be placed along the 
northern border at a location that is collocated with an 
existing U.S. Border Patrol sector headquarters, an Air 
and Marine Operations branch, and a United States Coast 
Guard air station, and other existing Department activi-
ties. 
(d) COMPONENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Center shall collocate 
personnel and activities of— 
(A) U.S. Customs and Border Protection; 
(B) the United States Coast Guard; 
(C) U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement’s Homeland Security Investigations; 
and 
(D) other components and offices of the 
Department that the Secretary determines to be 
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necessary, including to support the training, 
technology testing, and development described 
in subsection (e). 
(2) ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL.—Additional Fed-
eral, State, tribal, local, and international govern-
ment partners may be collocated as the Secretary 
determines to be necessary and appropriate to sup-
port the operations described in this section. 
(e) FUNCTIONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Center shall perform 
the functions described in this subsection in addition 
to any other functions assigned by the Secretary. In 
carrying out these functions, the Center shall sup-
port the Department’s northern border security op-
erations. 
(2) NORTHERN BORDER STRATEGY.—The Cen-
ter, in collaboration with relevant offices and compo-
nents of the Department, shall— 
(A) serve as a coordination mechanism for 
operational components for the implementation 
of the Department of Homeland Security 
Northern Border Strategy and any successor 
strategy and support appropriate offices of the 
Department in the evaluation and updating of 
the Department of Homeland Security North-
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ern Border Strategy and any successor strat-
egy; and 
(B) support the development of best prac-
tices and policies for personnel at the northern 
border to support such implementation. 
(3) TRAINING.—The Center shall serve as a 
training location to support the delivery of training 
or exercises for Department personnel and Federal, 
State, tribal, local, and international government 
partners. 
(4) RESOURCE
AND
TECHNOLOGICAL
NEEDS 
AND
CHALLENGES.—The Center, in collaboration 
with relevant offices and components of the Depart-
ment, shall— 
(A) identify resource and technological 
needs or challenges affecting security along the 
northern border; and 
(B) serve as a testing ground and dem-
onstration location for the testing of border se-
curity technology, including determining such 
technology’s suitability and performance in the 
northern border and maritime environments. 
(5) AIR AND MARINE OPERATIONS.— 
(A) QUICK
REACTION
CAPABILITIES.—In 
support of the Center, U.S. Customs and Bor-
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der Protection’s Air and Marine Operations 
shall establish and maintain capability that is 
collocated with the Center and available for 
quick deployment in support of the northern 
border missions, U.S. Customs and Border Pro-
tection, and the Department, including missions 
in the Great Lakes region. 
(B) NORTHERN BORDER DOMAIN AWARE-
NESS.—In order to coordinate with the Center 
and support its operations, the Air and Marine 
Operations Center shall collocate personnel and 
resources with the Center to enhance the De-
partment’s capabilities to— 
(i) support air and maritime domain 
awareness and information sharing efforts 
along the northern border; 
(ii) provide dedicated monitoring of 
northern border systems; and 
(iii) lead, in coordination with other 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection com-
ponents, Federal, State, tribal, local, and 
international governments, and private sec-
tor partners, the Center’s efforts to track 
and monitor legitimate cross-border traffic 
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involving unmanned aircraft and un-
manned aircraft systems. 
(6) 
COUNTER-UNMANNED
AIRCRAFT
SYS-
TEMS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Pursuant to policies es-
tablished by the Secretary, consistent with sec-
tion 210G of the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 (6 U.S.C. 124n), the Center shall support 
counter-unmanned aircraft systems operations 
along the northern border to respond to the in-
creased use of unmanned aircraft systems. 
(B) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this section may be construed to provide addi-
tional authority related to detection, mitigation, 
research, development, or testing of unmanned 
aircraft systems or counter-unmanned aircraft 
systems. 
(7) PRIVACY AND CIVIL RIGHTS.—The Center, 
in collaboration with the Chief Privacy Officer and 
the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the 
Department, shall ensure that operations and prac-
tices of the Center comply with the privacy and civil 
rights policies of the Department and its compo-
nents, and as necessary, ensure there are resources 
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