---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6234"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6234"
heading: "Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6234"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 605 — Safeguards and Security Matters"
  - "Subchapter II — Classified Information"
---

# §6234. Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges

- (a) **Provision of Training.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Energy shall ensure that all [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy employees and [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy contractor employees participating in laboratory-to-laboratory cooperative exchange activities are fully trained in matters relating to the protection of [classified information](/usc/10/801.md?p=15) and to potential espionage and counterintelligence threats.
- (b) **Countering of Espionage and Intelligence-gathering Abroad.—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) shall establish a pool of [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) employees and [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) contractor employees who are specially trained to counter threats of espionage and intelligence-gathering by foreign nationals against [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) employees and [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) contractor employees who travel abroad for laboratory-to-laboratory exchange activities or other cooperative exchange activities on behalf of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6).
  - (2) The Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Energy may assign at least one employee from the pool established under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) to accompany a group of [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) employees or [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) contractor employees who travel to any nation designated to be a sensitive country for laboratory-to-laboratory exchange activities or other cooperative exchange activities on behalf of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6).

## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2)(B), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1411, 1462.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2674 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

### Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.