---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 921a"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "921a"
heading: "Integration of detection equipment and technologies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/921a"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Security and Accountability for Every Port"
  - "Subchapter I — Security of United States Seaports"
  - "Part B — Port Operations"
---

# §921a. Integration of detection equipment and technologies

- (a) **Responsibility of Secretary—** The [Secretary](/usc/6/901.md?p=15) of [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security shall have responsibility for ensuring that domestic chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection equipment and technologies are integrated, as appropriate, with other border security systems and detection technologies.
- (b) **Report—** Not later than 6 months after August 3, 2007, the [Secretary](/usc/6/901.md?p=15) shall submit a report to Congress that contains a plan to develop a departmental technology assessment process to determine and certify the technology readiness levels of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection technologies before the full deployment of such technologies within the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–53, title XI, § 1104, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 380.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, and not as part of the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006, also known as the SAFE Port Act, which comprises this chapter.