Sec. 2. Agriculture Cybersecurity Centers
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Subtitle K of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3319 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall establish a program under which the Secretary will— on a competitive basis, award grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, eligible entities to establish 5 Regional Agriculture Cybersecurity Centers to carry out research, development, and education on agriculture cybersecurity, with respect to seed agriculture, horticulture, animal agriculture, and the agriculture supply chain; establish a national network of such Regional Agricultural Cybersecurity Centers; and designate one college or university to coordinate the activities of such national network.
A Regional Agriculture Cybersecurity Center shall— conduct research on cybersecurity systems for the agriculture sector, including developing cybersecurity situational awareness systems to monitor cybersecurity threats, intrusions, and anomalies; develop a security operations center for the agriculture sector to analyze cybersecurity threats, intrusions, and anomalies and to recommend mitigation actions; develop cybersecurity technologies and tools for the agricultural sector, including domain-specific intrusion and anomaly detection systems, domain-specific intrusion prevention systems, domain specific role-based access control and user authentication systems, lightweight device authentication protocols, and secure network architectures; build live cybersecurity testbeds to assess and refine cybersecurity technologies, tools, and systems developed for the agricultural sector; conduct attack/defense exercises to validate and evaluate cybersecurity solutions for field deployment and agriculture industry adoption; develop cybersecurity education and training programs for agricultural stakeholders; conduct cybersecurity training using the testbeds referred to in paragraph (4); and build a regional research and development collaboration network.
In this section, the term eligible entity means a college or university that has programs in food and agriculture sciences and cybersecurity that coordinates regional industry partners, cooperatives, government authorities and other stakeholders to strengthen security, privacy and resiliency, bolster the independent networks, and develop a skilled workforce. There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030. .
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