Sec. 701. Department of Homeland Security activities
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Consistent with the research plan in section 102 and in coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, as appropriate, the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology— shall support research, development, evaluation, and testing for advanced air mobility, unmanned aircraft systems, counter-UAS systems and detection systems capabilities, including for— air domain awareness and advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems traffic monitoring; privacy, security, and cybersecurity of advanced air mobility systems, unmanned aircraft systems, and counter-UAS systems and detection systems capabilities; safe operations of counter-UAS systems and detection systems in the National Airspace System; and testing and evaluation of unmanned aircraft systems and counter-UAS systems and detection systems capabilities, performance systems engineering, operational analysis and human systems integration, including factors that impact performance of end-users in the operation and maintenance of advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems; leveraging and preparing for adversarial use of artificial intelligence against advanced air mobility, unmanned aircraft systems, and counter-UAS systems and detection systems; and maritime detection and monitoring of hazards to navigation, potential and actual pollution incidents, vessel discharge and vessel air emissions monitoring and enforcement, and pollution response operations; shall coordinate with all relevant offices and programs at the Department, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Protective Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Secret Service, the Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans, and the Department of Homeland Security Special Events Program; may produce curated, standardized, representative, secure, and privacy protected data sets for advanced air mobility systems, unmanned aircraft systems, and counter-UAS systems and detection systems, including detection systems, development, archiving, and use, prioritizing data for high-value, high-risk research; may support one or more institutes as described in section 201(a) for the purpose of advancing the field of advanced air mobility, unmanned aircraft systems, and counter-UAS systems and detection systems capabilities; and shall enter into and perform such contracts, including cooperative research and development arrangements and grants and cooperative agreements or other transactions, as may be necessary in the conduct of the work of the Department and on such terms as the Secretary considers appropriate, in furtherance of the purposes of this Act.
Subject to the availability of appropriations for the purpose, the Secretary may, in consultation with the Federal Aviation Administration and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, as appropriate, establish a center of excellence to carry out research and development that advances counter-UAS systems and detection systems capabilities. The Secretary shall select an institution of higher education, or a consortium of institutions of higher education, to host and maintain the center of excellence established under this subsection.
In selecting a such an institution or consortium, the Secretary shall— give preference to applicants with strong past performance related to counter-UAS systems and detection systems research, education, and workforce development activities; give preference to applicants geographically collocated within 100 miles of Federal departments or agencies that currently possess or operate extant counter-UAS systems and detection systems facilities: give preference to applicants having proven abilities and strong research enterprises in systems engineering, radio frequency directed energy, radar and antenna research and development, atmospheric monitoring that can support of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection to include trace gases and particular matter, target tracking, remote sensing and the ability to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to support the required data analytics; consider the extent to which the applicant would involve the public and private sectors; and consider the regional and national impacts of the applicant’s proposed research and development activities.
Notwithstanding section 46502 of title 49, United States Code, or sections 32, 1030, 1367 and chapters 119 and 206 of title 18, the institution of higher education or consortium may use funds provided under this subsection to carry out fundamental research, evaluation, education, workforce development, and training efforts related to counter-UAS systems and detection systems subject areas, including safety, privacy, security, cybersecurity, detecting, identifying, monitoring, tracking, disrupting and seizing control, confiscating, disabling, damaging, destruction, remote sensing, forensics, testing and evaluation of systems capabilities, performance, systems engineering, operational analysis, and advanced technologies.
The Department share of a grant under this subsection shall not exceed 75 percent of the costs of establishing and operating the center of excellence and related research activities carried out by the grant recipient. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 for making awards under this subsection. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $5,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2025 through 2028 for making awards under this subsection.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section— $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2024; $31,500,000 for fiscal year 2025; $33,075,000 for fiscal year 2026; $34,728,750 for fiscal year 2027; and $36,465,187 for fiscal year 2028. In this title: The term Department means the Department of Homeland Security. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Homeland Security.