(A) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Secretary 
shall establish an advisory board to— 
(i) monitor the method by which 
grants are awarded under this subsection; 
and 
(ii) provide to the Secretary periodic 
performance reviews of actions taken to 
carry out this subsection. 
(B) COMPOSITION.—The advisory board 
established under subparagraph (A) shall be 
composed of three members, to be appointed by 
the Secretary, of whom— 
(i) one shall be a representative of the 
Federal Government; 
(ii) one shall be selected from a list of 
nominees provided by the United States- 
Israel Binational Science Foundation; and 
(iii) one shall be selected from a list 
of nominees provided by the United States- 
Israel Binational Industrial Research and 
Development Foundation. 
(6) CONTRIBUTED
FUNDS.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the Secretary may accept 
or retain funds contributed by any person, govern-
ment entity, or organization for purposes of carrying 
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out this subsection. Such funds shall be available, 
subject to appropriation, without fiscal year limita-
tion. 
(7) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of completion of a project for which a grant 
is provided under this subsection, the grant recipient 
shall submit to the Secretary a report that con-
tains— 
(A) a description of how the grant funds 
were used by the recipient; and 
(B) an evaluation of the level of success of 
each project funded by the grant. 
(8) CLASSIFICATION.—Grants shall be awarded 
under this subsection only for projects that are con-
sidered to be unclassified by both the United States 
and Israel. 
(b) TERMINATION.—The grant program and the ad-
visory board established under this section terminate on 
the date that is seven years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
(c) NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED.—No addi-
tional funds are authorized to carry out the requirements 
of this Act. Such requirements shall be carried out using 
amounts otherwise authorized. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
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(1) the term ‘‘cybersecurity research’’ means re-
search, including social science research, into ways 
to identify, protect against, detect, respond to, and 
recover from cybersecurity threats; 
(2) the term ‘‘cybersecurity technology’’ means 
technology intended to identify, protect against, de-
tect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity 
threats; 
(3) the term ‘‘cybersecurity threat’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 102 of the Cy-
bersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (en-
acted as title I of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (di-
vision N of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2016 (Public Law 114–113))); 
(4) the term ‘‘Department’’ means the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security; and 
(5) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Homeland Security. 
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