§7781 Cyber Center for Education and Innovation-Home of the National Cryptologic Museum

Summary

The Secretary of Defense can set up a public Cyber Center for Education and Innovation—Home of the National Cryptologic Museum at Fort George G. Meade. The Center can hold, care for, and show items about the National Security Agency and the history of cryptology, and it can include meeting, classroom, and conference space for education and outreach. The Secretary can make a deal with the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation, a nonprofit, to design, build, and run the Center. If the Foundation builds it and meets the agreement, the Secretary can accept the finished work and the United States will own it. Foundation staff are not federal employees. The Secretary can charge fees for using the Center and must put those fees into a Treasury fund created for the Center. Money in that fund can be used to run the Center and buy items like books, art, historical artifacts, and obsolete military materiel, and the money does not expire at the end of a fiscal year. Center: public museum and education facility at Fort Meade. Foundation: nonprofit that can build and operate the Center. Fund: Treasury account holding fees and other Center income for Center use.