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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. 2866 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2866
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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 18 (legislative day, September 16), 2025
Mr. Budd (for himself and Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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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. 3310 et seq.) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
``SEC. 1473I. AGRICULTURE CYBERSECURITY CENTERS.
``(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 shall--
``(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;
``(2) establish a national network of such Regional
Agriculture Cybersecurity Centers; and
``(3) designate one eligible entity to coordinate the
activities of such national network.
``(b) Duties.--A Regional Agriculture Cybersecurity Center shall--
``(1) conduct research on cybersecurity systems for the
agriculture sector, including developing cybersecurity
situational awareness systems to monitor cybersecurity threats,
intrusions, and anomalies;
``(2) develop a security operations center for the
agriculture sector--
``(A) to analyze cybersecurity threats, intrusions,
and anomalies; and
``(B) to recommend mitigation actions;
``(3) develop cybersecurity technologies and tools for the
agriculture sector, including--
``(A) domain-specific intrusion and anomaly
detection systems;
``(B) domain-specific intrusion prevention systems;
``(C) domain-specific role-based access control and
user authentication systems;
``(D) lightweight device authentication protocols;
and
``(E) secure network architectures;
``(4) build live cybersecurity testbeds to assess and
refine cybersecurity technologies, tools, and systems developed
for the agriculture sector;
``(5) conduct attack/defense exercises to validate and
evaluate cybersecurity solutions for field deployment and
agriculture industry adoption;
``(6) develop cybersecurity education and training programs
for agricultural stakeholders;
``(7) conduct cybersecurity training using the testbeds
referred to in paragraph (4);
``(8) build a regional research and development
collaboration network; and
``(9) ensure that the research described in paragraph (1),
the technologies and tools described in paragraph (3), and the
attack/defense exercises described in paragraph (5) are
specifically designed to prevent cyberattacks from--
``(A) the People's Republic of China;
``(B) the Democratic People's Republic of Korea;
``(C) the Russian Federation;
``(D) the Islamic Republic of Iran; and
``(E) such other countries as the Secretary, in
consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security,
determines to be appropriate.
``(c) Definition of Eligible Entity.--In this section, the term
`eligible entity' means a land-grant college or university that--
``(1) has programs in the food and agricultural sciences
and cybersecurity; and
``(2) coordinates regional industry partners, cooperatives,
government authorities, and other stakeholders--
``(A) to strengthen the security, privacy, and
resiliency of agricultural systems;
``(B) to bolster the resiliency of cybersecurity
infrastructure used by independent, noncentralized,
locally owned and operated agricultural networks; and
``(C) to develop a skilled workforce equipped to
manage and protect agricultural systems from
cyberattacks.
``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2026 through 2030.''.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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