Sec. 9. Innovative technologies and capabilities
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The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration may establish a task force to collaborate with public and private sector stakeholders to identify and develop an innovative technology or capability with the potential to enhance transportation security, including by— conducting a field demonstration of such a technology or capability in an operational environment; gathering performance data from such a demonstration to inform the acquisition process; and to the extent practicable, providing funding and promoting efforts to enable participation in a demonstration by a small business that has an innovative technology or capability but does not have adequate resources to participate in a field demonstration under paragraph (1).
The task force authorized under subsection
(a)shall be chaired by the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration’s designee and comprised of representatives appointed by the Administrator, in consultation with the Chairperson of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee (established pursuant to section 44946 of title 49, United States Code). The chair of the task force shall— evaluate technologies and capabilities for field demonstrations with potential to enhance surface transportation security, in addition to technologies and capabilities with potential to enhance aviation security; coordinate with the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security to leverage such technologies and capabilities; and submit to the Secretary of Homeland Security an annual report regarding the task force’s activities that identifies, for each such technology or capability, what mode of transportation could be enhanced by the integration of such technology or capability into security operations and, as appropriate, plans for deploying such technology or capability. Nothing in this section shall require the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration to acquire an innovative technology or capability. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the task force.