---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 185"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "185"
heading: "Federally funded research and development centers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/185"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter III — Science and Technology in Support of Homeland Security"
---

# §185. Federally funded research and development centers


The [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16), acting through the Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) for Science and Technology, shall have the authority to establish or contract with 1 or more federally funded research and development [centers](/usc/6/681.md?p=1) to provide independent analysis of [homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) security issues, or to carry out other responsibilities under this chapter, including coordinating and integrating both the extramural and intramural programs described in [section 188 of this title](/usc/6/188.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title III, § 305, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2168.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.