SEC. 307. HOMELAND SECURITY ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY. 8
(2) DIRECTOR.—HSARPA shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the Secretary. The Director shall report to the Under Secretary.
(3) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Director shall ad- minister the Fund to award competitive, merit-re-viewed grants, cooperative agreements or contracts to public or private entities, including businesses, federally funded research and development centers, and universities. The Director shall administer the Fund to— (B) advance the development, testing and evaluation, and deployment of critical homeland security technologies; and
(C) accelerate the prototyping and deploy- ment of technologies that would address home- land security vulnerabilities.
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(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— There are authorized to be appropriated $500,000,000 to the Fund for fiscal year 2003 and such sums as may be necessary thereafter.
I figure they could do some research for DARPA-type technology out of this budget. I also recall seeing some other mention of research funding, but can't find it at the moment.