---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 578"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "578"
heading: "Definition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/578"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XIII — Emergency Communications"
---

# §578. Definition


In this subchapter, the term “interoperable” has the meaning given the term “interoperable communications” under [section 194(g)(1) of this title](/usc/6/194.md?p=g-1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XVIII, § 1808, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 671(b), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1441.)