---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 181"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "181"
heading: "Under Secretary for Science and Technology"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/181"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter III — Science and Technology in Support of Homeland Security"
---

# §181. Under Secretary for Science and Technology


There shall be in the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) a Directorate of Science and Technology headed by an Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) for Science and Technology.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title III, § 301, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2163.)