119-hr4046

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4046 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4046

 To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish 
a program providing for the establishment of Agriculture Cybersecurity 
 Centers, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 17, 2025

 Mr. Nunn of Iowa (for himself and Mr. Davis of North Carolina) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Agriculture

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 A BILL

 To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching 
Policy Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish 
a program providing for the establishment of Agriculture Cybersecurity 
 Centers, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Cybersecurity in Agriculture Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. AGRICULTURE CYBERSECURITY CENTERS.

 Subtitle K of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3319 et seq.) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:

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SEC. 1473I. AGRICULTURE CYBERSECURITY CENTERS.

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    (a) In General.--The Secretary, acting through the Director of 
the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and in consultation 
with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall establish a program 
under which the Secretary will--
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    (1) on a competitive basis, award grants to, or enter 
 into cooperative agreements with, eligible entities to 
 establish 5 Regional Agriculture Cybersecurity Centers to carry 
 out research, development, and education on agriculture 
 cybersecurity, with respect to seed agriculture, horticulture, 
 animal agriculture, and the agriculture supply chain;
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    (2) establish a national network of such Regional 
 Agricultural Cybersecurity Centers; and
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    (3) designate one college or university to coordinate the 
 activities of such national network.
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    (b) Duties.--A Regional Agriculture Cybersecurity Center shall--
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    (1) conduct research on cybersecurity systems for the 
 agriculture sector, including developing cybersecurity 
 situational awareness systems to monitor cybersecurity threats, 
 intrusions, and anomalies;
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    (2) develop a security operations center for the 
 agriculture sector to analyze cybersecurity threats, 
 intrusions, and anomalies and to recommend mitigation actions;
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    (3) develop cybersecurity technologies and tools for the 
 agricultural sector, including domain-specific intrusion and 
 anomaly detection systems, domain-specific intrusion prevention 
 systems, domain specific role-based access control and user 
 authentication systems, lightweight device authentication 
 protocols, and secure network architectures;
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    (4) build live cybersecurity testbeds to assess and 
 refine cybersecurity technologies, tools, and systems developed 
 for the agricultural sector;
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    (5) conduct attack/defense exercises to validate and 
 evaluate cybersecurity solutions for field deployment and 
 agriculture industry adoption;
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    (6) develop cybersecurity education and training programs 
 for agricultural stakeholders;
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    (7) conduct cybersecurity training using the testbeds 
 referred to in paragraph

    (4) ; and
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    (8) build a regional research and development 
 collaboration network.
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            (c) Eligible Entity.--In this section, the term `eligible entity' 
means a college or university that has programs in food and agriculture 
sciences and cybersecurity that coordinates regional industry partners, 
cooperatives, government authorities and other stakeholders to 
strengthen security, privacy and resiliency, bolster the independent 
networks, and develop a skilled workforce.
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            (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2026 through 2030.''.
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