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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 321i. Use of commercially available technology, goods, and services

Statutory text

It is the sense of Congress that—

(1)

the Secretary should, to the maximum extent possible, use off-the-shelf commercially developed technologies to ensure that the Department’s information technology systems allow the Department to collect, manage, share, analyze, and disseminate information securely over multiple channels of communication; and

(2)

in order to further the policy of the United States to avoid competing commercially with the private sector, the Secretary should rely on commercial sources to supply the goods and services needed by the Department.

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.

  1. Homeland Security Act of 2002

    Pub. L. 107–296 title V § 520 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 321i

    Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 520, formerly § 509, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2215

    Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 520, formerly § 509, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2215

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 509. USE OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY, GOODS, AND SERVICES. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Secretary should, to the maximum extent possible, use off-the-shelf commercially developed technologies to ensure that the Department’s information technology systems allow the Department to collect, manage, share, analyze, and disseminate information securely over multiple channels of communication; and (2) in order to further the policy of the United States to avoid competing commercially with the private sector, the Secretary should rely on commercial sources to supply the goods and services needed by the Department.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 319 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 109–295.

Credits

2002–2006 · 2 acts
  1. 2002Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 520, formerly § 509, , 116 Stat. 2215
  2. 2006renumbered § 520, Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(6), , 120 Stat. 1395.
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(Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 520, formerly § 509, , 116 Stat. 2215; renumbered § 520, Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(6), , 120 Stat. 1395.)

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