Sec. 516. Authorization for FireGuard Program
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Chapter 5 of title 32, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary of Defense may use members of the National Guard to carry out a program to aggregate, analyze, and assess multi-source remote sensing information for interagency partnerships in the detection and monitoring of wildfires, and to support any emergency response to such wildfires. Such a program shall be known as the FireGuard Program . If the Secretary carries out a program under this section, the Secretary— shall transfer the functions, personnel, assets, and capabilities of the FireGuard Program, in existence on the day before the date of enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 , to the FireGuard Program authorized under this section; may direct the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide such assistance as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out the FireGuard Program; and may not reduce support, or transfer responsibility for support to an interagency partner, for the FireGuard Program authorized under this section. .
The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 510. Authorization for FireGuard Program. . The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 ( Public Law 117–81 ) is amended by striking section 515.
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