Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73
§7409 Coordination of Federal cyber security research and development
Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 100— - CYBER SECURITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT › § 7409
Summary
Require the NSF and NIST Directors to coordinate the research programs created or changed by this chapter, and require the OSTP Director to work with them so those programs are included in any government-wide cybersecurity research effort.
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Title 15, §7409
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The Director of the National Science Foundation and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall coordinate the research programs authorized by this chapter or pursuant to amendments made by this chapter. The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall work with the Director of the National Science Foundation and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to ensure that programs authorized by this chapter or pursuant to amendments made by this chapter are taken into account in any government-wide cyber security research effort.
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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–305, Nov. 27, 2002, 116 Stat. 2367, known as the Cyber Security Research and Development Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 7401 of this title.
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15 U.S.C. § 7409
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73