§ 510. Authorization for FireGuard Program

Statutory text

In General.—

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”.

Contracts and Agreements.—

The Secretary of Defense may enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with a qualified individual or entity for the performance of duties to supplement members of the National Guard in carrying out the FireGuard Program under subsection (a).

In association with a contract or cooperative agreement entered into under paragraph (1) with a qualified individual or entity, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, in coordination with relevant State, local, and commercial entities, shall execute a memorandum of understanding with the qualified individual or entity, which shall clearly delineate the roles, responsibilities, functions, timelines, and end dates for the transition of the duties to be performed under the contract or cooperative agreement.

In this subsection, the term “qualified individual or entity” means—

any individual who possesses a requisite security clearance for handling classified remote sensing data for the purpose of wildfire detection and monitoring; or

any corporation, firm, partnership, company, nonprofit, Federal agency or sub-agency, or State or local government, with contractors or employees who possess a requisite security clearance for handling such data.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

2023
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
Pub. L. 118–31 div. A title V § 515(a) · 137 Stat. 136
Enacted · 32 U.S.C. § 510
Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title V, § 515(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 248
Source evidence
Code source credit
Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title V, § 515(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 248
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Authority.— Chapter 5 of title 32, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 510. Authorization for FireGuard Program “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’.” .
2024
Pub. L. 118–159 div. A title III § 352(a) · 138 Stat. 1857
1. Amended · 32 U.S.C. § 510
  Pub. L. 118–159 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
2. Inserted · 32 U.S.C. § 510
  Pub. L. 118–159 inserted heading
3. Added · 32 U.S.C. § 510
  Pub. L. 118–159 added subsec. (b)
Unresolved: Pub. L. 118–159 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 118–159 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).

1 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 3 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2024—Pub. L. 118–159 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).

Credits

2023–2024 · 2 acts

2023Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title V, § 515(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 248
2024amended Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title III, § 352(a), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 1857.

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(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title V, § 515(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 248; amended Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title III, § 352(a), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 1857.)