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House of Representatives a report containing the findings of the 
study under subsection (a). 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date the report under subsection (c) is submitted, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall review and analyze the study and 
submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security and the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives a report on such review and analysis, including 
any recommendations for— 
(1) changes to the Annex to the Memorandum of Under-
standing referred to in subsection (b)(1); and 
(2) other improvements to pipeline security activities at 
the Department. 
SEC. 1981. FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT. 
(a) EMERGING ISSUES.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, acting through the Adminis-
trator and in coordination with the Under Secretary for Science 
and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security, shall 
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a feasibility 
assessment of modifying the security of surface transportation 
assets by— 
(1) 
introducing 
next 
generation 
technologies 
to 
be 
integrated into systems of surface transportation assets to 
detect explosives, including through the deployment of mobile 
explosives detection technologies to conduct risk-based pas-
senger and property screening at such systems; 
(2) providing surface transportation asset operators with 
access to the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure 
Flight Program or a similar passenger vetting system main-
tained by the Transportation Security Administration; 
(3) deploying a credential authentication technology or 
other means of identification document inspection to high-risk 
surface transportation assets to assist operators conducting 
passenger vetting; and 
(4) deploying scalable, cost-effective technology solutions 
to detect chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive 
threats within high-risk surface transportation assets that are 
capable of passive, continuous, and real-time sensing and detec-
tion of, and alerting passengers and operating personnel to, 
the presence of such a threat. 
(b) CONSIDERATIONS.—In carrying out the assessment under 
subsection (a), the Secretary, acting through the Administrator 
and in coordination with the Under Secretary for Science and 
Technology of the Department of Homeland Security, shall address 
the technological, privacy, operational, passenger facilitation, and 
public acceptance considerations involved with each security 
measure contemplated in such assessment. 
SEC. 1982. BEST PRACTICES TO SECURE AGAINST VEHICLE-BASED 
ATTACKS. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Administrator shall disseminate best practices to public 
and private stakeholders regarding how to enhance transportation 
security against the threat of a vehicle-based terrorist attack.
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SEC. 1983. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION STAKEHOLDER SURVEY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall begin conducting a survey 
of public and private stakeholders responsible for securing surface 
transportation assets regarding resource challenges, including the 
availability of Federal funding, associated with securing such assets 
that provides an opportunity for respondents to set forth informa-
tion on specific unmet needs. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after beginning the 
survey required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall report 
to the appropriate committees of Congress regarding the results 
of such survey and the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts 
to address any identified security vulnerabilities. 
SEC. 1984. NUCLEAR MATERIAL AND EXPLOSIVE DETECTION TECH-
NOLOGY. 
The Secretary, in coordination with the Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology and the head of each relevant 
Federal department or agency researching nuclear material detec-
tion systems or explosive detection systems, shall research, facili-
tate, and, to the extent practicable, deploy next generation tech-
nologies, including active neutron interrogation, to detect nuclear 
material and explosives in transportation systems and transpor-
tation facilities. 
Subtitle H—Transportation Security 
SEC. 1985. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY 
REVIEW. 
(a) GAO REVIEW.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
States shall evaluate the degree to which the most recent 
National Strategy for Transportation Security, as updated, 
under section 114(s) of title 49, United States Code, is reflected 
in relevant Federal transportation security programs, budgets, 
research, staffing levels, and related activities. 
(2) CONSIDERATIONS.—In conducting the evaluation under 
paragraph (1), the Comptroller General shall consider the 
degree to which— 
(A) the strategy is sufficiently forward-looking to guide 
future Federal efforts relating to transportation security; 
(B) Federal transportation security programs, budgets, 
research, staffing levels, and related activities for fiscal 
year 2019 and subsequent fiscal years would be guided 
by the strategy; and 
(C) any annual progress reports submitted to Congress 
under that section after the strategy is submitted would 
provide information on the degree to which that strategy 
guides Federal efforts relating to transportation security. 
SEC. 1986. RISK SCENARIOS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall annually develop, 
consistent with the transportation modal security plans required 
under section 114(s) of title 49, United States Code, risk-based 
priorities based on risk assessments conducted or received by the
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Secretary across all transportation modes that consider threats, 
vulnerabilities, and consequences. 
(b) SCENARIOS.—The Administrator shall ensure that the risk- 
based priorities identified under subsection (a) are informed by 
an analysis of terrorist attack scenarios for each transportation 
mode, including cyber-attack scenarios and intelligence and open 
source information about current and evolving threats. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date that annual 
risk-based priorities are developed under subsection (a), the 
Administrator shall submit to the appropriate committees of Con-
gress a report that includes the following: 
(1) Copies of the risk assessments for each transportation 
mode. 
(2) A summary that ranks the risks within and across 
modes. 
(3) A description of the risk-based priorities for securing 
the transportation sector that identifies and prioritizes the 
greatest security needs of such transportation sector, both 
across and within modes, in the order that such priorities 
should be addressed. 
(4) Information on the underlying methodologies used to 
assess risks across and within each transportation mode and 
the basis for any assumptions regarding threats, vulnerabilities, 
and consequences made in assessing and prioritizing risks 
within each such mode and across modes. 
(d) CLASSIFICATION.—The information provided under sub-
section (c) may be submitted in a classified format or unclassified 
format, as the Administrator considers appropriate. 
SEC. 1987. INTEGRATED AND UNIFIED OPERATIONS CENTERS. 
(a) FRAMEWORK.—Not later than 120 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the 
heads of other appropriate offices or components of the Department, 
shall make available to public and private stakeholders a framework 
for establishing an integrated and unified operations center respon-
sible for overseeing daily operations of a transportation facility 
that promotes coordination for responses to terrorism, serious 
incidents, and other purposes, as determined appropriate by the 
Administrator. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator shall brief the appropriate committees 
of Congress regarding the establishment and activities of integrated 
and unified operations centers at transportation facilities at which 
the TSA has a presence. 
SEC. 1988. NATIONAL DEPLOYMENT FORCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 449, as amended 
by section 1943 of this Act, is further amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 44948. NATIONAL DEPLOYMENT OFFICE. 
‘‘(a) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—There 
is 
established 
within 
the 
Transportation Security Administration a National Deployment 
Office, to be headed by an individual with supervisory experience. 
Such individual shall be designated by the Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration. 
‘‘(b) DUTIES.—The individual designated as the head of the 
National Deployment Office shall be responsible for the following:
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‘‘(1) Maintaining a National Deployment Force within the 
Transportation Security Administration, including transpor-
tation security officers, supervisory transportation security offi-
cers and lead transportation security officers, to provide the 
Administration with rapid and efficient response capabilities 
and augment the Department of Homeland Security’s homeland 
security operations to mitigate and reduce risk, including for 
the following: 
‘‘(A) Airports temporarily requiring additional security 
personnel due to an emergency, seasonal demands, hiring 
shortfalls, severe weather conditions, passenger volume 
mitigation, equipment support, or other reasons. 
‘‘(B) Special events requiring enhanced security 
including National Special Security Events, as determined 
by the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(C) Response in the aftermath of any manmade dis-
aster, including any terrorist attack. 
‘‘(D) Other such situations, as determined by the 
Administrator. 
‘‘(2) Educating transportation security officers regarding 
how to participate in the Administration’s National Deployment 
Force. 
‘‘(3) Recruiting officers to serve on the National Deployment 
Force, in accordance with a staffing model to be developed 
by the Administrator. 
‘‘(4) Approving 1-year appointments for officers to serve 
on the National Deployment Force, with an option to extend 
upon officer request and with the approval of the appropriate 
Federal Security Director. 
‘‘(5) Training officers to serve on the National Deployment 
Force.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of subchapter 
II of chapter 449, as amended by section 1943 of this Act, is 
further amended by adding after the item relating to section 44947 
the following: 
‘‘44948. National Deployment Office.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 114(f), as amended by 
section 1904 of this Act, is further amended— 
(1) in paragraph (14), by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon 
at the end; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (15) as paragraph (16); 
and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (14) the following: 
‘‘(15) establish and maintain a National Deployment Office 
as required under section 44948 of this title; and’’. 
(d) CAREER DEVELOPMENT.—The Administrator may consider 
service in the National Deployment Force as a positive factor when 
evaluating applicants for promotion opportunities within the TSA. 
(e) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act and annually thereafter for 5 years, the Administrator 
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
regarding activities of the National Deployment Office, including 
the National Deployment Force, established under section 44948 
of title 49, United States Code. Each such report shall include 
information relating to the following: