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6 U.S.C. § 677b — President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition
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**(a) In general** The Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (in this section referred to as the “Director”) of the Department of Homeland Security is authorized to hold an annual cybersecurity competition to be known as the “Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition” (in this section referred to as the “competition”) for the purpose of identifying, challenging, and competitively awarding prizes, including cash prizes, to the United States Government’s best cybersecurity practitioners and teams across offensive and defensive cybersecurity disciplines.
**(b) Eligibility** To be eligible to participate in the competition, an individual shall be a Federal civilian employee or member of the uniformed services (as such term is defined in [section 2101(3) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section2101/3&num=0&edition=prelim)) and shall comply with any rules promulgated by the Director regarding the competition.
**(c) Competition administration** The Director may enter into a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other agreement with a private sector for-profit or nonprofit entity or State or local government agency to administer the competition.
**(d) Competition parameters** Each competition shall incorporate the following elements:
(1) Cybersecurity skills outlined in the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education Framework, or any successor framework.
(2) Individual and team events.
(3) Categories demonstrating offensive and defensive cyber operations, such as software reverse engineering and exploitation, network operations, forensics, big data analysis, cyber analysis, cyber defense, cyber exploitation,
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**(a) In general** The Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (in this section referred to as the “Director”) of the Department of Homeland Security is authorized to hold an annual cybersecurity competition to be known as the “Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition” (in this section referred to as the “competition”) for the purpose of identifying, challenging, and competitively awarding prizes, including cash prizes, to the United States Government’s best cybersecurity practitioners and teams across offensive and defensive cybersecurity disciplines.
**(b) Eligibility** To be eligible to participate in the competition, an individual shall be a Federal civilian employee or member of the uniformed services (as such term is defined in [section 2101(3) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section2101/3&num=0&edition=prelim)) and shall comply with any rules promulgated by the Director regarding the competition.
**(c) Competition administration** The Director may enter into a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other agreement with a private sector for-profit or nonprofit entity or State or local government agency to administer the competition.
**(d) Competition parameters** Each competition shall incorporate the following elements:
(1) Cybersecurity skills outlined in the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education Framework, or any successor framework.
(2) Individual and team events.
(3) Categories demonstrating offensive and defensive cyber operations, such as software reverse engineering and exploitation, network operations, forensics, big data analysis, cyber analysis, cyber defense, cyber exploitation, secure programming, obfuscated coding, or cyber-physical systems.
(4) Any other elements related to paragraphs (1), (2), or (3), as determined necessary by the Director.
**(e) Use of funds**
(1) **In general** — In order to further the goals and objectives of the competition, the Director may use amounts made available to the Director for the competition for reasonable expenses for the following:
(A) Advertising, marketing, and promoting the competition.
(B) Meals for participants and organizers of the competition if attendance at the meal during the competition is necessary to maintain the integrity of the competition.
(C) Promotional items, including merchandise and apparel.
(D) Consistent with [section 4503 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4503&num=0&edition=prelim), necessary expenses for the honorary recognition of competition participants, including members of the uniformed services.
(E) Monetary and nonmonetary awards for competition participants, including members of the uniformed services, subject to subsection (f).
(2) **Application** — This subsection shall apply to amounts appropriated on or after December 23, 2022.
**(f) Prize limitation**
(1) **Awards by the Director** — The Director may make one or more awards per competition, except that the amount or value of each shall not exceed $10,000.
(2) **Awards by the Secretary of Homeland Security** — The Secretary of Homeland Security may make one or more awards per competition, except the amount or the value of each shall not exceed $25,000.
(3) **Regular pay** — A monetary award under this section shall be in addition to the regular pay of the recipient.
(4) **Overall yearly award limit** — The total amount or value of awards made under this Act 11 So in original. Probably should refer to “this section”. See References in Text note below. during a fiscal year may not exceed $100,000.
**(g) Reporting requirements** The Director shall annually provide to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report that includes the following with respect to each competition conducted in the preceding year:
(1) A description of available amounts.
(2) A description of authorized expenditures.
(3) Information relating to participation.
(4) Information relating to lessons learned, and how such lessons may be applied to improve cybersecurity operations and recruitment of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security.
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The head of an agency may pay a cash award to, and incur necessary expense for the honorary recognition of, an employee who—
(1) by his suggestion, invention, superior accomplishment, or other personal effort contributes to the efficiency, economy, or other improvement of Government operations or achieves a significant reduction in paperwork; or
(2) performs a special act or service in the public interest in connection with or related to his official employment.
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**(a) Authority.—** Notwithstanding the provisions of section 12302(a) or any other provision of law, when the President determines that it is necessary to augment the active forces or that it is necessary to provide assistance referred to in subsection (b), he may authorize the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, without the consent of the members concerned, to order any unit, and any member not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit of the Selected Reserve (as defined in [section 10143(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section10143/a&num=0&edition=prelim)), or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category and designated as essential under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, under their respective jurisdictions, to active duty for not more than 365 consecutive days.
**(b) Support for Responses to Certain Emergencies.—** The authority under subsection (a) includes authority to order a unit or member to active duty to provide assistance in responding to an emergency involving—
(1) a use or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction; or
(2) a terrorist attack or threatened terrorist attack in the United States that results, or could result, in significant loss of life or property.
**(c) Authority Relating to Significant Cyber Incidents.—** When the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating determines that it is necessary to augment the active armed forces for the response of the Department of Defense or other department under which the Coast Guard is operating, respectively, to a covered incident, such Secretary m
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TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY
§ 677b
(D) facilitating information sharing and
operational coordination with entities per-
forming threat response activities; and
(E) providing guidance on how best to use
Federal resources and capabilities in a time-
ly, effective manner to speed recovery from
the incident.
(2) Declaration
The term ‘‘declaration’’ means a declaration
of the Secretary under section 677b(a)(1) of
this title.
(3) Director
The term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency.
(4) Federal agency
The term ‘‘Federal agency’’ has the meaning
given the term ‘‘agency’’ in section 3502 of
title 44.
(5) Fund
The term ‘‘Fund’’ means the Cyber Response
and Recovery Fund established under section
677c(a) of this title.
(6) Incident
The term ‘‘incident’’ has the meaning given
the term in section 3552 of title 44.
(7) Renewal
The term ‘‘renewal’’ means a renewal of a
declaration under section 677b(d) of this title.
(8) Significant incident
The term ‘‘significant incident’’—
(A) means an incident or a group of related
incidents that results, or is likely to result,
in demonstrable harm to—
(i) the national security interests, for-
eign relations, or economy of the United
States; or
(ii) the public confidence, civil liberties,
or public health and safety of the people of
the United States; and
(B) does not include an incident or a por-
tion of a group of related incidents that oc-
curs on—
(i) a national security system (as defined
in section 3552 of title 44); or
(ii) an information system described in
paragraph (2) or (3) of section 3553(e) of
title 44.
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XXII, § 2232, as added Pub.
L. 117–58, div. G, title VI, § 70602(a), Nov. 15, 2021,
135 Stat. 1267.)
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