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

Summary

The Secretary of Defense may create a public Cyber Center for Education and Innovation—Home of the National Cryptologic Museum—at Fort George G. Meade. The Center can hold, protect, and show items about the National Security Agency, its predecessor or successor groups, and the history of code-making and code-breaking. It can also include rooms for meetings, classes, and conferences to support education, training, and public outreach. The Secretary can make a deal with the nonprofit National Cryptologic Museum Foundation to design, build, and run the Center. If the Foundation builds the Center and meets its obligations, the Secretary can accept it and ownership becomes the United States. The Secretary may accept services from the Foundation, but Foundation workers are not federal employees. The Secretary can charge fees for using the Center. After acceptance, a Treasury fund named the Cyber Center for Education and Innovation–Home of the National Cryptologic Museum Fund will hold those fees and other Center-related money. The Fund may be used to run the Center and buy items like books, art, artifacts, plans, models, and obsolete combat gear, and the money does not expire at the end of the fiscal year.