---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 124b"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "124b"
heading: "Comprehensive information technology network architecture"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/124b"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter II — Information Analysis"
  - "Part A — Information and Analysis; Access to Information"
---

# §124b. Comprehensive information technology network architecture

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16), acting through the Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) for Intelligence and Analysis, shall establish, consistent with the policies and procedures developed under [section 485 of this title](/usc/6/485.md), and consistent with the enterprise architecture of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5), a [comprehensive information technology network architecture](#b) for the [Office](/usc/6/590.md?p=3) of Intelligence and Analysis that connects the various databases and related information technology [assets](/usc/6/101.md?p=3) of the [Office](/usc/6/590.md?p=3) of Intelligence and Analysis and the intelligence components of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) in order to promote internal information sharing among the intelligence and other [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5).
- (b) **Comprehensive information technology network architecture defined—** The term “comprehensive information technology network architecture” means an integrated framework for evolving or maintaining existing information technology and acquiring new information technology to achieve the strategic management and information [resources](/usc/6/741.md?p=12) management goals of the [Office](/usc/6/590.md?p=3) of Intelligence and Analysis.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 110–53, title V, § 501(a)(1), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 308.)