§510 Authorization for Fireguard Program

Summary

Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use National Guard members in a program called the FireGuard Program to gather, study, and evaluate remote sensor data from many sources to help agencies detect and watch wildfires and to support emergency responses. The Secretary can hire outside people or groups to help, and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau must sign a memorandum of understanding with state, local, and commercial partners that explains roles, duties, timelines, and end dates for turning the work over. "Qualified individual or entity" means either an individual with the needed security clearance to handle classified remote sensing data for wildfire work, or an organization whose employees or contractors have that clearance.