---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 428"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "428"
heading: "Identification of new entrants into the Federal marketplace"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/428"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part F — Federal Emergency Procurement Flexibility"
---

# §428. Identification of new entrants into the Federal marketplace


The head of each [executive agency](/usc/6/101.md?p=8) shall conduct market research on an ongoing basis to identify effectively the capabilities, including the capabilities of small businesses and new entrants into Federal contracting, that are available in the marketplace for meeting the requirements of the [executive agency](/usc/6/101.md?p=8) in furtherance of defense against or recovery from [terrorism](/usc/6/101.md?p=18) or nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack. The head of the [executive agency](/usc/6/101.md?p=8) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, take advantage of commercially available market research methods, including use of commercial databases, to carry out the research.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 858, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2238.)