---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 444"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "444"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/444"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part G — Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies"
---

# §444. Definitions


For purposes of this part, the following definitions apply:

- (1) **Qualified anti-terrorism technology—** For purposes of this part, the term “qualified anti-terrorism technology” means any product, equipment, service (including support services), device, or technology (including information technology) designed, developed, modified, or procured for the specific purpose of preventing, detecting, identifying, or deterring acts of [terrorism](/usc/6/101.md?p=18) or limiting the harm such acts might otherwise cause, that is designated as such by the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16).
- (2) **Act of terrorism—**
  - (A) The term “act of terrorism” means any act that the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) determines meets the requirements under [subparagraph (B)](#2-B), as such requirements are further defined and specified by the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16).
  - (B) **Requirements.—** An act meets the requirements of this subparagraph if the act—
    - (i) is unlawful;
    - (ii) causes harm to a person, property, or [entity](/usc/6/301c.md?p=2), in the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A), or in the case of a domestic [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) air carrier or a [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A)-flag vessel (or a vessel based principally in the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) on which [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) income tax is paid and whose insurance coverage is subject to regulation in the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A)), in or outside the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A); and
    - (iii) uses or attempts to use instrumentalities, weapons or other methods designed or intended to cause mass destruction, injury or other [loss](#5) to citizens or institutions of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A).
- (3) **Insurance carrier—** The term “insurance carrier” means any corporation, association, society, order, firm, company, mutual,[^1] partnership, individual aggregation of individuals, or any other legal [entity](/usc/6/301c.md?p=2) that provides commercial property and casualty insurance. Such term includes any affiliates of a commercial insurance carrier.
- (4) **Liability insurance—**
  - (A) **2 In general—** The term “liability insurance” means insurance for legal liabilities incurred by the insured resulting from—
    - (i) [loss](#5) of or damage to property of others;
    - (ii) ensuing [loss](#5) of income or extra expense incurred because of [loss](#5) of or damage to property of others;
    - (iii) bodily injury (including) to persons other than the insured or its employees; or
    - (iv) [loss](#5) resulting from debt or default of another.
- (5) **Loss—** The term “loss” means death, bodily injury, or loss of or damage to property, including business interruption loss.
- (6) **Non-Federal Government customers—** The term “non-Federal Government customers” means any customer of a Seller that is not an [agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) or instrumentality of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) Government with authority under Public Law 85–804 [[50 U.S.C. 1431](/usc/50/1431.md) et seq.] to provide for indemnification under certain circumstances for third-party claims against its contractors, including but not limited to [State](/usc/6/101.md?p=17) and local authorities and commercial [entities](/usc/6/301c.md?p=2).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original.
[^2]: So in original. No subpar. (B) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 865, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2241.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Public Law 85–804, referred to in par. (6), is Pub. L. 85–804, Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 972, which is classified generally to chapter 29 (§ 1431 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.