homeland security procurement training to be pro-
vided. 
‘‘(3) To establish, in consultation with the 
Council on Procurement Training, training stand-
ards, requirements, and courses to be required for 
acquisition employees. 
‘‘(4) To establish an appropriate centralized 
mechanism to control the allocation of resources for 
conducting such required courses and other training 
and education. 
‘‘(5) To select course providers and certify 
courses to ensure that the procurement training cur-
riculum supports a coherent framework for the edu-
cational development of acquisition employees, in-
cluding the provision of basic, intermediate, and ad-
vanced courses. 
‘‘(6) To publish an annual catalog that includes 
a list of the acquisition education and training 
courses. 
‘‘(7) To develop a system of maintaining 
records of student enrollment, and other data re-
lated to students and courses conducted pursuant to 
this section. 
‘‘(c) PROVISION OF INSTRUCTION.—The Under Sec-
retary shall provide procurement training to acquisition 
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employees of any office under subsection (d)(3). The ap-
propriate member of the Council on Procurement Training 
may direct such an employee to receive procurement train-
ing. 
‘‘(d) COUNCIL ON PROCUREMENT TRAINING.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish a Council on Procurement Training to advise 
and make policy and curriculum recommendations to 
the Under Secretary. 
‘‘(2) CHAIR
OF
COUNCIL.—The chair of the 
Council on Procurement Training shall be the Under 
Secretary for Management. 
‘‘(3) MEMBERS.—The members of the Council 
on Procurement Training are the chief procurement 
officers of each of the following: 
‘‘(A) The Customs and Border Protec-
torate 
‘‘(B) The Transportation Security Admin-
istration. 
‘‘(C) The Office of Procurement Oper-
ations. 
‘‘(D) The Bureau of Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement. 
‘‘(E) The Federal Emergency Management 
Agency. 
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‘‘(F) The Coast Guard. 
‘‘(G) 
The 
Federal 
Law 
Enforcement 
Training Center. 
‘‘(H) The United States Secret Service. 
‘‘(I) Such other entity as the Under Sec-
retary for Management determines is appro-
priate. 
‘‘(e) ACQUISITION EMPLOYEE DEFINED.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘acquisition employee’ 
means an employee serving under a career or career-condi-
tional appointment in the competitive service or appoint-
ment of equivalent tenure in the excepted service of the 
Federal Government, at least 50 percent of whose as-
signed duties include acquisitions, procurement-related 
program management, or procurement-related oversight 
functions. 
‘‘(f) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than March 1 
of each year, the Under Secretary for Management shall 
submit to the Secretary a report on the procurement train-
ing provided under this section, which shall include infor-
mation about student enrollment, students who enroll but 
do not attend courses, graduates, certifications, and other 
relevant information.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by adding at the 
end of the items relating to such subtitle the following: 
‘‘Sec. 890A. Homeland security procurement training.’’. 
SEC. 15. GAO STUDY OF INTEGRATION AND ADEQUACY OF 
TRAINING PROGRAMS RELATED TO ASYLUM 
AT PORTS OF ENTRY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of the 
United States shall conduct a study of the integration and 
adequacy of training for Department of Homeland Secu-
rity personnel who interdict, interview, and process asylum 
seekers ports of entry, including at airports, in the United 
States. 
(b) CONTENTS
OF STUDY.—The study shall in-
clude— 
(1) an assessment of whether such training pro-
vides such personnel with adequate and clear guid-
ance on the standards for handling asylum seekers; 
(2) an assessment of whether such personnel 
coordinate appropriately to ensure that relevant 
United States laws are fully enforced; and 
(3) recommendations, as appropriate, for steps 
that the Secretary of Homeland Security should take 
to provide better integration and adequacy of such 
training to such personnel in order to better secure 
the borders of the United States while ensuring that 
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asylum seekers are properly processed and their 
claims are fully evaluated. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 12 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 
shall submit a report summarizing the results of the study 
to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 
SEC. 16. NATIONAL HOMELAND SECURITY UNIVERSITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle H of title VIII of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by adding at 
the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 890B. NATIONAL HOMELAND SECURITY UNIVERSITY. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall establish a National Homeland Security 
University for senior officials that serves as a capstone 
to other educational and training opportunities in the Na-
tional Capital Region. 
‘‘(b) MISSION.—The University shall conduct a grad-
uate-level curriculum to prepare government officials for 
senior homeland security and counterterrorism assign-
ments in Federal, State, tribal, and local governments. 
‘‘(c) CURRICULUM CONTENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The curriculum of the Uni-
versity shall— 
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