---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 321i"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "321i"
heading: "Use of commercially available technology, goods, and services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/321i"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter V — National Emergency Management"
---

# §321i. Use of commercially available technology, goods, and services


It is the sense of Congress that—

- (1) the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) should, to the maximum extent possible, use off-the-shelf commercially developed technologies to ensure that the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5)’s information technology systems allow the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) to collect, manage, share, analyze, and disseminate information securely over multiple channels of communication; and
- (2) in order to further the policy of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) to avoid competing commercially with the private sector, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) should rely on commercial sources to supply the goods and services needed by the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 520, formerly § 509, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2215; renumbered § 520, Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(6), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1395.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 319 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 109–295.