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6 U.S.C. § 397 — National Computer Forensics Institute
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**(a) In general; mission** There is authorized for fiscal years 2023 through 2028 within the United States Secret Service a National Computer Forensics Institute (in this section referred to as the “Institute”). The Institute’s mission shall be to educate, train, and equip State, local, territorial, and Tribal law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges, as well as participants in the United States Secret Service’s network of cyber fraud task forces who are Federal employees, members of the uniformed services, or State, local, Tribal, or territorial employees, regarding the investigation and prevention of cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, and related cybersecurity threats, including through the dissemination of homeland security information, in accordance with relevant Federal law regarding privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections.
**(b) Curriculum** In furtherance of subsection (a), all education and training of the Institute shall be conducted in accordance with relevant Federal law regarding privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections. Education and training provided pursuant to subsection (a) shall relate to the following:
(1) Investigating and preventing cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, and related cybersecurity threats, including relating to instances involving illicit use of digital assets and emerging trends in cybersecurity and electronic crime.
(2) Conducting forensic examinations of computers, mobile devices, and other information systems.
(3) Prosecutorial and judicial considerations related to cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, related cybersecurity threats, and forensic examinations of computers, mobile devices, and other information systems.
(4) Methods to obtain, process, store, and admit
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**(a) In general; mission** There is authorized for fiscal years 2023 through 2028 within the United States Secret Service a National Computer Forensics Institute (in this section referred to as the “Institute”). The Institute’s mission shall be to educate, train, and equip State, local, territorial, and Tribal law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges, as well as participants in the United States Secret Service’s network of cyber fraud task forces who are Federal employees, members of the uniformed services, or State, local, Tribal, or territorial employees, regarding the investigation and prevention of cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, and related cybersecurity threats, including through the dissemination of homeland security information, in accordance with relevant Federal law regarding privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections.
**(b) Curriculum** In furtherance of subsection (a), all education and training of the Institute shall be conducted in accordance with relevant Federal law regarding privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections. Education and training provided pursuant to subsection (a) shall relate to the following:
(1) Investigating and preventing cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, and related cybersecurity threats, including relating to instances involving illicit use of digital assets and emerging trends in cybersecurity and electronic crime.
(2) Conducting forensic examinations of computers, mobile devices, and other information systems.
(3) Prosecutorial and judicial considerations related to cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, related cybersecurity threats, and forensic examinations of computers, mobile devices, and other information systems.
(4) Methods to obtain, process, store, and admit digital evidence in court.
**(c) Principles** In carrying out the functions specified in subsection (b), the Institute shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that timely, actionable, and relevant expertise and information related to cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, and related cybersecurity threats is shared with recipients of education and training provided pursuant to subsection (a). When selecting participants for such training, the Institute shall prioritize, to the extent reasonable and practicable, providing education and training to individuals from geographically-diverse jurisdictions throughout the United States, and the Institute shall prioritize, to the extent reasonable and practicable, State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, and other employees.
**(d) Equipment** The Institute may provide recipients of education and training provided pursuant to subsection (a) with computer equipment, hardware, software, manuals, and tools for investigating and preventing cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, and related cybersecurity threats, and for forensic examinations of computers, mobile devices, and other information systems.
**(e) Cyber Fraud Task Forces** The Institute shall facilitate the expansion of the network of Cyber Fraud Task Forces of the United States Secret Service through the addition of recipients of education and training provided pursuant to subsection (a) educated and trained by the Institute.
**(f) Savings provision** All authorized activities and functions carried out by the Institute at any location as of the day before November 2, 2017, are authorized to continue to be carried out at any such location on and after such date.
**(g) Expenses** The Director of the United States Secret Service may pay for all or a part of the education, training, or equipment provided by the Institute, including relating to the travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses of recipients of education and training provided pursuant to subsection (a).
**(h) Annual reports to Congress**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shall include in the annual report required under [section 1116 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1116&num=0&edition=prelim) information regarding the activities of the Institute, including, where possible, the following:
(A) An identification of jurisdictions with recipients of the education and training provided pursuant to subsection (a) during such year.
(B) Information relating to the costs associated with that education and training.
(C) Any information regarding projected future demand for the education and training provided pursuant to subsection (a).
(D) Impacts of the activities of the Institute on the capability of jurisdictions to investigate and prevent cybersecurity incidents, electronic crimes, and related cybersecurity threats.
(E) A description of the nomination process for potential recipients of the information and training provided pursuant to subsection (a).
(F) Any other issues determined relevant by the Secretary.
(2) **Exception** — Any information required under paragraph (1) that is submitted as part of the annual budget submitted by the President to Congress under [section 1105 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1105&num=0&edition=prelim) is not required to be included in the report required under paragraph (1).
**(i) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Cybersecurity threat** — The term “cybersecurity threat” has the meaning given such term in [section 1501 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Incident** — The term “incident” has the meaning given such term in section 659(a) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title.
(3) **Information system** — The term “information system” has the meaning given such term in [section 1501(9) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section1501/9&num=0&edition=prelim).
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In this subchapter:
(1) **Agency** — The term “agency” has the meaning given the term in [section 3502 of title 44](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3502&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Antitrust laws** — The term “antitrust laws”—
(A) has the meaning given the term in [section 12 of title 15](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section12&num=0&edition=prelim);
(B) includes [section 45 of title 15](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section45&num=0&edition=prelim) to the extent that [section 45 of title 15](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section45&num=0&edition=prelim) applies to unfair methods of competition; and
(C) includes any State antitrust law, but only to the extent that such law is consistent with the law referred to in subparagraph (A) or the law referred to in subparagraph (B).
(3) **Appropriate Federal entities** — The term “appropriate Federal entities” means the following:
(A) The Department of Commerce.
(B) The Department of Defense.
(C) The Department of Energy.
(D) The Department of Homeland Security.
(E) The Department of Justice.
(F) The Department of the Treasury.
(G) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
(4) **Cybersecurity purpose** — The term “cybersecurity purpose” has the meaning given the term in [section 650 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section650&num=0&edition=prelim).
(5) **Cybersecurity threat** — The term “cybersecurity threat” has the meaning given the term in [section 650 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section650&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year. Each budget shall include a budget message and summary and supporting information. The President shall include in each budget the following:
(1) information on activities and functions of the Government.
(2) when practicable, information on costs and achievements of Government programs.
(3) other desirable classifications of information.
(4) a reconciliation of the summary information on expenditures with proposed appropriations.
(5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations the President decides are necessary to support the Government in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year.
(6) estimated receipts of the Government in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year under—
(A) laws in effect when the budget is submitted; and
(B) proposals in the budget to increase revenues.
(7) appropriations, expenditures, and receipts of the Government in the prior fiscal year.
(8) estimated expenditures and receipts, and appropriations and proposed appropriations, of the Government for the current fiscal year.
(9) balanced statements of the—
(A) condition of the Treasury at the end of the prior fiscal year;
(B) estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the current fiscal year; and
(C) estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted if financial proposals in the budget are adopted.
(10) essential information about the debt of the Government.
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**(a)** The head of each agency shall make available on a public website of the agency and to the Office of Management and Budget an update on agency performance.
**(b)**
(1) Each update shall compare actual performance achieved with the performance goals established in the agency performance plan under section 1115(b) and shall occur not later than 150 days after the end of each fiscal year, with more frequent updates of actual performance on indicators that provide data of significant value to the Government, Congress, or program partners at a reasonable level of administrative burden.
(2) If performance goals are specified in an alternative form under section 1115(c), the results shall be described in relation to such specifications, including whether the performance failed to meet the criteria of a minimally effective or successful program.
**(c)** Each update shall—
(1) review the success of achieving the performance goals and include actual results for the 5 preceding fiscal years;
(2) evaluate the performance plan for the current fiscal year relative to the performance achieved toward the performance goals during the period covered by the update;
(3) explain and describe where a performance goal has not been met (including when a program activity’s performance is determined not to have met the criteria of a successful program activity under section 1115(c)(1)(A)(ii) or a corresponding level of achievement if another alternative form is used)—
(A) why the goal was not met;
(B) those plans and schedules for achieving the established performance goal; and
(C) if the performance goal is impractical or infeasible, why that is the case and what action is recommended;
(4) describe the use and assess the effectiveness in achieving performance goals of an
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In this part:
(1) **Center** — The term “Center” means the center established under [section 659 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section659&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Council** — The term “Council” means the Cyber Incident Reporting Council described in [section 681f of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section681f&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Covered cyber incident** — The term “covered cyber incident” means a substantial cyber incident experienced by a covered entity that satisfies the definition and criteria established by the Director in the final rule issued pursuant to [section 681b(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section681b/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) **Covered entity** — The term “covered entity” means an entity in a critical infrastructure sector, as defined in Presidential Policy Directive 21, that satisfies the definition established by the Director in the final rule issued pursuant to [section 681b(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section681b/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
(5) **Cyber incident** — The term “cyber incident”—
(A) has the meaning given the term “incident” in section 659 11 See References in Text note below. of this title; and
(B) does not include an occurrence that imminently, but not actually, jeopardizes—
(i) information on information systems; or
(ii) information systems.
(6) **Cyber threat** — The term “cyber threat” has the meaning given the term “cybersecurity threat” in [section 650 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section650&num=0&edition=prelim).
(7) **Federal entit
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TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY
§ 396
(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 835, Nov. 25, 2002, 116
Stat. 2227; Pub. L. 108–7, div. L, § 101(2), Feb. 20,
2003, 117 Stat. 528; Pub. L. 108–334, title V, § 523,
Oct. 18, 2004, 118 Stat. 1320.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2004—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–334, § 523(1), inserted be-
fore period at end ‘‘, or any subsidiary of such an enti-
ty’’.
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 108–334, § 523(2), inserted ‘‘be-
fore, on, or’’ after ‘‘completes’’.
Subsec. (c)(1)(B). Pub. L. 108–334, § 523(3), struck out
‘‘which is after November 25, 2002, and’’ after ‘‘begin-
ning on the date’’.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 108–334, § 523(4), substituted ‘‘na-
tional’’ for ‘‘homeland’’.
2003—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 108–7 struck out ‘‘, or to
prevent the loss of any jobs in the United States or pre-
vent the Government from incurring any additional
costs that otherwise would not occur’’ before period at
end.
§ 396. Lead system integrator; financial interests
(a) In general
With respect to contracts entered into after
July 1, 2007, and except as provided in subsection
(b), no entity performing lead system integrator
functions in the acquisition of a major system
by the Department of Homeland Security may
have any direct financial interest in the devel-
opment or construction of any individual sys-
tem or element of any system of systems.
(b) Exception
An entity described in subsection (a) may have
a direct financial interest in the development or
construction of an individual system or element
of a system of systems if—
(1) the Secretary of Homeland Security cer-
tifies to the Committees on Appropriations of
the Senate and the House of Representatives,
the Committee on Homeland Security of the
House of Representatives, the Committee on
Transp
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