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

CHAPTER 1— HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › SUBCHAPTER V— NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

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.

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Codification

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