---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 392"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "392"
heading: "Personal services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/392"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part D — Acquisitions"
---

# §392. Personal services


The [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16)—

- (1) may procure the temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants (or organizations thereof) in accordance with [section 3109 of title 5](/usc/5/3109.md); and
- (2) may, whenever necessary due to an urgent [homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) security need, procure temporary (not to exceed 1 year) or intermittent personal services, including the services of experts or consultants (or organizations thereof), without regard to the pay limitations of such section 3109.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 832, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2225.)