---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 417"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "417"
heading: "Rotational cybersecurity research program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/417"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part E — Human Resources Management"
---

# §417. Rotational cybersecurity research program


To enhance the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5)’s cybersecurity capacity, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) may establish a rotational research, development, and training program for—

- (1) detail to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security [Agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) (including the national cybersecurity and communications integration [center](/usc/6/681.md?p=1) authorized by [section 659 of this title](/usc/6/659.md)) of Coast Guard Academy graduates and faculty; and
- (2) detail to the Coast Guard Academy, as faculty, of individuals with expertise and experience in cybersecurity who are employed by—
  - (A) the [Agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) (including the [center](/usc/6/681.md?p=1));
  - (B) the Directorate of Science and Technology; or
  - (C) institutions that have been designated by the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) as a [Center](/usc/6/681.md?p=1) of Excellence for Cyber Defense, or the equivalent.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 846, as added Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXII [LXXXII], § 8278(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4687.)