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Cybersecurity in Agriculture Act of 2025
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.
Summary
This bill establishes a program to create five Regional Agriculture Cybersecurity Centers at colleges and universities with expertise in both food and agriculture sciences and cybersecurity. The centers would conduct research on cybersecurity threats specific to agriculture, develop specialized security tools and technologies, and build test environments to evaluate these solutions. Each center would also run training programs for agricultural stakeholders and coordinate with regional industry partners, cooperatives, and government agencies. The bill authorizes $25 million per year from 2026 through 2030 for this program, with one designated university coordinating the national network of all five centers.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3] (R-IA)
1 cosponsor
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Zachary Nunn’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $397,838
- MARQUIS MANAGEMENT INC. $16,550
- BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $16,500
- STARKEY HEARING TECHNOLOGIES $13,200
- APOLLO GLOBAL MGMT $13,000
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Actions (2)
- Jun 17, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
- Jun 17, 2025 Introduced in House
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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
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:
“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 will—
“(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 Agricultural Cybersecurity Centers; and
“(3) designate one college or university 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 to analyze cybersecurity threats, intrusions, and anomalies and to recommend mitigation actions;
“(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;
“(4) build live cybersecurity testbeds to assess and refine cybersecurity technologies, tools, and systems developed for the agricultural 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); and
“(8) build a regional research and development collaboration network.
“(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.
“(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.”. <all>
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