10 U.S.C. § 6234 — Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges
submitted 1 year ago by Pub. L. 119-60 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 169 words · no verdicts yet
Employees and contractor employees involved in Department of Energy laboratory exchanges must be trained to protect classified information and recognize espionage and counterintelligence threats. The Department must maintain specially trained employees, one of whom may accompany groups traveling to sensitive countries.
(a) Training. The Energy Secretary must ensure that all Department and contractor employees taking part in laboratory-to-laboratory cooperative exchanges are fully trained to protect classified information* and to recognize potential espionage and counterintelligence threats.
(b) Overseas protection. (1) The Secretary must create a pool of specially trained Department and contractor employees to counter foreign-national espionage and intelligence-gathering threats against Department personnel traveling abroad for laboratory exchanges or other cooperative exchanges for the Department. (2) The Department’s Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence may assign at least one pool employee to accompany a group traveling to a nation designated a sensitive country for such exchanges.
The Secretary of Energy shall ensure that all Department of Energy employees and Department of Energy contractor employees participating in laboratory-to-laboratory cooperative exchange activities are fully trained in matters relating to the protection of classified information* and to potential espionage and counterintelligence threats.
The Secretary shall establish a pool of Department employees and Department contractor employees who are specially trained to counter threats of espionage and intelligence-gathering by foreign nationals against Department employees and Department contractor employees who travel abroad for laboratory-to-laboratory exchange activities or other cooperative exchange activities on behalf of the Department.
The Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence of the Department of Energy may assign at least one employee from the pool established under paragraph (1) to accompany a group of Department employees or Department contractor employees who travel to any nation designated to be a sensitive country for laboratory-to-laboratory exchange activities or other cooperative exchange activities on behalf of the Department.
Source credit: (Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2)(B), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1411, 1462.)
- 2025Enacted · Pub. L. 119-60 · 139 Stat. 1411, 1462
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