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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7856 

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 30, 2020 

Mr. SCHIFF introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 

A BILL 

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United 

States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement 

and Disability System, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021’’. 

6 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 

7 this Act is as follows: 


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Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 

Sec. 2. Definitions. 

TITLE I—INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES 

Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations. 

Sec. 102. Classified schedule of authorizations. 

Sec. 103. Intelligence community management account. 

TITLE II—CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND 

DISABILITY SYSTEM 

Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations. 

TITLE III—GENERAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MATTERS 

Sec. 301. Restriction on conduct of intelligence activities. 

Sec. 302. Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by law. 

Sec. 303. Notice of intelligence community provision of support for Federal, 

State, local, or tribal government response to civil disobedience 

or domestic civil disturbances. 

Sec. 304. Notice of intelligence community engagement in activities pursuant to 

presidential emergency action documents. 

Sec. 305. Requirement to buy certain satellite component from American 

sources. 

Sec. 306. Limitation on construction of facilities to be used primarily by intelligence community. 

Sec. 307. Intelligence community student loan repayment programs. 

Sec. 308. Paid leave for a serious health condition. 

Sec. 309. Requirements for certain employment activities by former intelligence 

officers and employees. 

TITLE IV—MATTERS RELATING TO ELEMENTS OF THE 

INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 

Sec. 401. Clarification of authority of National Reconnaissance Office. 

Sec. 402. Establishment of Office of the Ombudsman for Analytic Objectivity. 

Sec. 403. Placement on the Executive Schedule for Department of Defense directors of the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. 

Sec. 404. Expansion of personnel management authority to attract experts in 

science and engineering. 

Sec. 405. Special access programs: congressional oversight. 

Sec. 406. Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent Award for distinguished female personnel of the National Security Agency. 

Sec. 407. Department of Homeland Security intelligence and cybersecurity diversity fellowship program. 

Sec. 408. Climate Security Advisory Council and Climate Security Intelligence 

Center. 

TITLE V—INSPECTORS GENERAL OF ELEMENTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND PROTECTION OF WHISTLEBLOWERS 

Sec. 501. Independence of Inspectors General of the intelligence community. 

Sec. 502. Designation of acting inspectors general of the intelligence community in cases of vacancies. 


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Sec. 503. Authority of inspectors general of the intelligence community to determine matters of urgent concern. 

Sec. 504. Limitation on sharing of intelligence community whistleblower complaints with persons named in such complaints. 

Sec. 505. Disclosures to Congress. 

Sec. 506. Prohibition against disclosure of whistleblower identity as reprisal 

against whistleblower disclosure by employees and contractors 

in intelligence community. 

Sec. 507. Conforming amendments and coordination with other provisions of 

law. 

Sec. 508. Severability. 

TITLE VI—MATTERS RELATING TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES 

Sec. 601. Modifications to duties of Director of Science and Technology. 

Sec. 602. Annual reports on research and development for scientific and technological advancements. 

Sec. 603. Improvement of education in science, technology, engineering, arts, 

and mathematics. 

Sec. 604. Quarterly reports on cyber intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance activities of the Department of Defense. 

Sec. 605. Process for identifying cyber threat intelligence needs and priorities. 

Sec. 606. Reviews of intelligence community cyber threat sharing posture and 

National Security Directive 42. 

Sec. 607. Feasibility study on cybersecurity policies of contractors of owner or 

operators of national security systems . 

Sec. 608. Artificial intelligence research and development. 

Sec. 609. Seedling investment in next-generation microelectronics in support of 

artificial intelligence. 

TITLE VII—PROTECTION OF ELECTIONS FROM FOREIGN 

INFLUENCE 

Subtitle A—Foreign Influence Reporting in Elections 

Sec. 701. Federal campaign reporting of foreign contacts. 

Sec. 702. Federal campaign foreign contact reporting compliance system. 

Sec. 703. Criminal penalties. 

Sec. 704. Report to congressional intelligence committees. 

Sec. 705. Rule of construction. 

Subtitle B—Foreign Influence Reporting in Elections 

Sec. 711. Clarification of application of foreign money ban. 

Sec. 712. Requiring acknowledgment of foreign money ban by political committees. 

TITLE VIII—MATTERS RELATING TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES 

Subtitle A—Saudi Arabia and the Middle East 

Sec. 801. Limitation on availability of funds until submission of required report 

on murder of Jamal Khashoggi. 

Sec. 802. Prohibition on availability of funds for intelligence sharing relating to 

certain air strikes in Yemen. 

Sec. 803. Report on understanding and mitigating civilian harm from use of 

certain weapons systems in Yemen. 


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Sec. 804. Report on prevention of proliferation of sensitive unmanned aerial vehicles and related technology. 

Sec. 805. Report on understanding potential for and preventing nuclear proliferation in the middle east. 

Sec. 806. Report on propagation of extremist ideologies from Saudi Arabia. 

Sec. 807. Report on financial influence operations of Saudi Arabia, the United 

Arab Emirates, and Qatar. 

Subtitle B—People’s Republic of China 

Sec. 811. Annual reports on security services of the People’s Republic of China 

in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 

Sec. 812. Research partnership on activities of People’s Republic of China. 

Sec. 813. Report on the pharmaceutical and personal protective equipment regulatory practices of the People’s Republic of China. 

Subtitle C—Matters Relating to Other Countries 

Sec. 821. National Intelligence Estimate on situation in Afghanistan. 

Sec. 822. Assessment regarding tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. 

TITLE IX—REPORTS AND OTHER MATTERS 

Sec. 901. Annual reports on worldwide threats. 

Sec. 902. Annual intelligence assessments on relationship between women and 

violent extremism. 

Sec. 903. Annual report on Climate Security Advisory Council. 

Sec. 904. Improvements to funding for National Security Education program. 

Sec. 905. Report on best practices to protect privacy, civil liberties, and civil 

rights of Chinese Americans. 

Sec. 906. National Intelligence Estimate on threat of global pandemic disease. 

Sec. 907. Modification of requirement for briefings on national security effects 

of emerging infectious disease and pandemics. 

Sec. 908. Report on open-source science and technology intelligence collection 

and analysis within the intelligence community. 

Sec. 909. Independent study on open-source intelligence. 

Sec. 910. Survey on Open Source Enterprise. 

Sec. 911. Intelligence assessment and reports on violent transnational White 

supremacist extremism. 

Sec. 912. Wireless supply chain innovation grant program. 

Sec. 913. Sense of Congress regarding Third Option Foundation. 

1 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

2 In this Act: 

3 (1) CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMIT4 TEES.—The term ‘‘congressional intelligence com5 mittees’’ has the meaning given such term in section 

6 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 

7 3003). 


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1 (2) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—The term 

2 ‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given 

3 such term in section 3 of the National Security Act 

4 of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003). 

5 TITLE I—INTELLIGENCE 

6 ACTIVITIES 

7 SEC. 101. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

8 Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for 

9 fiscal year 2021 for the conduct of the intelligence and 

10 intelligence-related activities of the following elements of 

11 the United States Government: 

12 (1) The Office of the Director of National Intel13 ligence. 

14 (2) The Central Intelligence Agency. 

15 (3) The Department of Defense. 

16 (4) The Defense Intelligence Agency. 

17 (5) The National Security Agency. 

18 (6) The Department of the Army, the Depart19 ment of the Navy, and the Department of the Air 

20 Force. 

21 (7) The Coast Guard. 

22 (8) The Department of State. 

23 (9) The Department of the Treasury. 

24 (10) The Department of Energy. 

25 (11) The Department of Justice. 


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1 (12) The Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

2 (13) The Drug Enforcement Administration. 

3 (14) The National Reconnaissance Office. 

4 (15) The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agen5 cy. 

6 (16) The Department of Homeland Security. 

7 SEC. 102. CLASSIFIED SCHEDULE OF AUTHORIZATIONS. 

8 (a) SPECIFICATIONS OF AMOUNTS.—The amounts 

9 authorized to be appropriated under section 101 for the 

10 conduct of the intelligence activities of the elements listed 

11 in paragraphs (1) through (16) of section 101, are those 

12 specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations pre13 pared to accompany this Act. 

14 (b) AVAILABILITY OF CLASSIFIED SCHEDULE OF AU15 THORIZATIONS.— 

16 (1) AVAILABILITY.—The classified Schedule of 

17 Authorizations referred to in subsection (a) shall be 

18 made available to the Committee on Appropriations 

19 of the Senate, the Committee on Appropriations of 

20 the House of Representatives, and to the President. 

21 (2) DISTRIBUTION BY THE PRESIDENT.—Sub22 ject to paragraph (3), the President shall provide for 

23 suitable distribution of the classified Schedule of Au24 thorizations referred to in subsection (a), or of apVerDate Sep 11 2014 03:06 Jul 31, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7856.IH H7856

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1 propriate portions of such Schedule, within the exec2 utive branch. 

3 (3) LIMITS ON DISCLOSURE.—The President 

4 shall not publicly disclose the classified Schedule of 

5 Authorizations or any portion of such Schedule ex6 cept— 

7 (A) as provided in section 601(a) of the 

8 Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 

9 Commission Act of 2007 (50 U.S.C. 3306(a)); 

10 (B) to the extent necessary to implement 

11 the budget; or 

12 (C) as otherwise required by law. 

13 SEC. 103. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT AC14 COUNT. 

15 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

16 authorized to be appropriated for the Intelligence Commu17 nity Management Account of the Director of National In18 telligence for fiscal year 2021 the sum of $683,000,000. 

19 (b) CLASSIFIED AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA20 TIONS.—In addition to amounts authorized to be appro21 priated for the Intelligence Community Management Ac22 count by subsection (a), there are authorized to be appro23 priated for the Intelligence Community Management Ac24 count for fiscal year 2021 such additional amounts as are 


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1 specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations re2 ferred to in section 102(a). 

3 TITLE II—CENTRAL INTEL4 LIGENCE AGENCY RETIRE5 MENT AND DISABILITY SYS6 TEM 

7 SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

8 There is authorized to be appropriated for the Cen9 tral Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund 

10 $514,000,000 for fiscal year 2021. 

11 TITLE III—GENERAL INTEL12 LIGENCE COMMUNITY MAT13 TERS 

14 SEC. 301. RESTRICTION ON CONDUCT OF INTELLIGENCE 

15 ACTIVITIES. 

16 The authorization of appropriations by this Act shall 

17 not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of 

18 any intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized 

19 by the Constitution or the laws of the United States. 

20 SEC. 302. INCREASE IN EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND 

21 BENEFITS AUTHORIZED BY LAW. 

22 Appropriations authorized by this Act for salary, pay, 

23 retirement, and other benefits for Federal employees may 

24 be increased by such additional or supplemental amounts 


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1 as may be necessary for increases in such compensation 

2 or benefits authorized by law. 

3 SEC. 303. NOTICE OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY PROVI4 SION OF SUPPORT FOR FEDERAL, STATE, 

5 LOCAL, OR TRIBAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSE 

6 TO CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OR DOMESTIC CIVIL 

7 DISTURBANCES. 

8 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con9 gress that— 

10 (1) it is essential that the people of the United 

11 States have trust and confidence in the legitimacy of 

12 the Armed Forces and the intelligence community, 

13 which are obligated to protect the rights of all the 

14 people of the United States; 

15 (2) in a democracy, intelligence activities must 

16 not only be legitimate, they must also be perceived 

17 as legitimate; 

18 (3) intelligence support to domestic-focused ac19 tivities by the Armed Forces or Federal law enforce20 ment components involved in responding to protests, 

21 including to monitor, assess, or otherwise track 

22 Americans who are taking to the streets or otherwise 

23 engaging in constitutionally protected activity within 

24 the United States, is inappropriate in all but the 

25 most extreme circumstances; 


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1 (4) although all elements of the intelligence 

2 community are authorized under Executive Order 

3 12333 to provide assistance to law enforcement that 

4 is ‘‘not precluded by applicable law’’, activities that 

5 may be appropriate in the context of routine crimi6 nal investigations may nevertheless be inappropriate 

7 in the context of law enforcement response to pro8 test or civil disturbances. 

9 (b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—Title V of the National 

10 Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) is amended 

11 by adding at the end the following new section: 

12 ‘‘SEC. 513. NOTICE OF PROVISION OF SUPPORT FOR FED13 ERAL, STATE, LOCAL, OR TRIBAL GOVERN14 MENT RESPONSE TO CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 

15 OR DOMESTIC CIVIL DISTURBANCES. 

16 ‘‘(a) NOTICE REQUIRED.—Not later than 72 hours 

17 before a covered agency provides support for any Federal, 

18 State, local, or Tribal government response to a civil dis19 obedience or domestic civil disturbance, the head of the 

20 agency shall submit to the appropriate congressional com21 mittees and the covered recipients notice of the provision 

22 of such support. 

23 ‘‘(b) CONTENT OF NOTICE.—Notice provided under 

24 subsection (a) with respect to the provision of support 

25 shall include each of the following: 


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1 ‘‘(1) The date on which the requested support 

2 was approved. 

3 ‘‘(2) The entity requesting the support. 

4 ‘‘(3) The type of support requested. 

5 ‘‘(4) A detailed description of the support that 

6 the select agency intends to provide. 

7 ‘‘(5) A brief description of the legal basis for 

8 providing the support. 

9 ‘‘(6) If the provision of such support requires 

10 notice to be provided under section 1055(b) of the 

11 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

12 2017 (Public Law 114–328), all the content of such 

13 notice. 

14 ‘‘(7) Any other facts or circumstances that the 

15 head of the covered agency determines are relevant. 

16 ‘‘(c) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF NOTICE.—Not later 

17 than 72 hours after the date on which any notice is pro18 vided under subsection (a), the Director of National Intel19 ligence shall make the notice publicly available on the 

20 internet website of the Director of National Intelligence 

21 and the internet website of the agency or agencies making 

22 the notification. If the notice is classified as provided 

23 under subsection (d), a redacted unclassified notice shall 

24 be made publicly available under this subsection. 

25 ‘‘(d) FORM OF NOTICE.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para2 graph (2), a notice under subsection (a) shall be 

3 submitted in unclassified form. 

4 ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—If the Director of National 

5 Intelligence makes a determination in writing that 

6 the protection of sources and methods requires that 

7 a notice under subsection (a) be classified, the notice 

8 may be submitted in classified form but shall be ac9 companied by a notice redacted to remove classified 

10 information. The authority to make a determination 

11 under this paragraph may not be delegated. 

12 ‘‘(e) EMERGENCY WAIVER AUTHORITY.— 

13 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of National 

14 Intelligence may waive the requirement to submit 

15 advance notice under subsection (a) if the Director 

16 determines that the support is to be provided in as17 sociation with any Federal, State, local, or Tribal 

18 government response to— 

19 ‘‘(A) armed insurrection; 

20 ‘‘(B) an act of foreign terrorism; 

21 ‘‘(C) an act of domestic terrorism; 

22 ‘‘(D) a response to a natural disaster; or 

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1 ‘‘(2) NOTICE.—If the Director issues a waiver 

2 under paragraph (1), notice under subsection (a) 

3 shall be provided as soon as practicable after the 

4 provision of support and, in any event, no later than 

5 48 hours after the provision of such support. 

6 ‘‘(3) NONDELEGATION.—The authority to issue 

7 a waiver and the authority to make a determination 

8 under paragraph (1) may not be delegated. 

9 ‘‘(f) QUARTERLY REPORTS.— 

10 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of National 

11 Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congres12 sional committees quarterly reports that include a 

13 description of any assistance provided by a covered 

14 agency to law enforcement authorities. 

15 ‘‘(2) CONTENTS OF REPORTS.—Each report re16 quired under this subsection shall include, for each 

17 instance in which assistance was provided— 

18 ‘‘(A) the date on which the assistance was 

19 requested; 

20 ‘‘(B) the entity requesting the assistance; 

21 ‘‘(C) the type of assistance requested; 

22 ‘‘(D) detailed description of the assistance 

23 that the covered agency intends to or did pro24 vide; 


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1 ‘‘(E) a brief description of the legal basis 

2 for providing the assistance; 

3 ‘‘(F) the date on which notice for such as4 sistance was provided under subsection (a) and 

5 the date on which such notice was made pub6 licly available under subsection (c); and 

7 ‘‘(G) any other facts or circumstances that 

8 the Director determines are relevant. 

9 ‘‘(3) FORM OF REPORT.—Each report required 

10 under this subsection shall be submitted in unclassi11 fied form, but may include a classified annex. 

12 ‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

13 ‘‘(1) The term ‘covered agency’ means any ele14 ment of the intelligence community. 

15 ‘‘(2) The term ‘civil disobedience’ means— 

16 ‘‘(A) a protest, rally, march, demonstra17 tion; or 

18 ‘‘(B) an active, professed refusal of a cit19 izen to obey a law, demand, order, or command 

20 of a government. 

21 ‘‘(3) The term ‘domestic civil disturbance’ 

22 means any activity arising from a mass act (includ23 ing a protest, demonstration, riot, or strike) in 

24 which the participants become hostile toward author25 ity, including— 


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1 ‘‘(A) the exercise of first amendment rights 

2 by protesters; 

3 ‘‘(B) violence or property destruction inci4 dent to protests; and 

5 ‘‘(C) obstruction of publicly available 

6 spaces, including obstruction of roads or camp7 ing symbolically in public places. 

8 ‘‘(4) The term ‘support’ includes pre-deploy9 ment intelligence support provided to members of 

10 the Armed Forces responding or preparing to re11 spond to a civil disobedience or domestic civil dis12 turbance. 

13 ‘‘(5) The term ‘appropriate committees of Con14 gress’ means— 

15 ‘‘(A) the Permanent Select Committee on 

16 Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Defense 

17 of the Committee on Appropriations; 

18 ‘‘(B) the Select Committee on Intelligence 

19 and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com20 mittee on Appropriations of the Senate; and 

21 ‘‘(C) in the case of support provided by a 

22 select agency within the Department of De23 fense, the Committees on Armed Services of the 

24 Senate and House of Representatives. 

25 ‘‘(6) The term ‘covered recipient’ means— 


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1 ‘‘(A) the Inspector General of the Intel2 ligence Community; 

3 ‘‘(B) the inspector general of the agency 

4 providing support; and 

5 ‘‘(C) the Attorney General.’’. 

6 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

7 for the National Security Act of 1947 is amended by in8 serting after the item relating to section 512 the following 

9 new item: 

‘‘513. Notice of provision of support for Federal, State, local, or Tribal government response to civil disobedience or domestic civil disturbances.’’. 

10 SEC. 304. NOTICE OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ENGAGE11 MENT IN ACTIVITIES PURSUANT TO PRESI12 DENTIAL EMERGENCY ACTION DOCUMENTS. 

13 (a) IN GENERAL.—If any element of the intelligence 

14 community receives direction from the President to engage 

15 in any activity pursuant to a presidential emergency action 

16 document or an equivalent or successor document, the 

17 head of such element shall, not later than 72 hours before 

18 engaging in such activity, submit to the congressional in19 telligence committees a written notice under this section. 

20 (b) CONTENTS OF NOTICE.—A notice under sub21 section (a) with respect to any direction to engage in an 

22 activity, shall include each of the following: 


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1 (1) A summary of the presidential emergency 

2 action document or equivalent document pursuant to 

3 which the activity is directed. 

4 (2) A detailed description of the activity or ac5 tivities that the element of the intelligence commu6 nity has been directed to undertake. 

7 (3) The date on which the President directed 

8 the element to undertake such activity. 

9 (4) An identification of any other government 

10 departments or agencies involved in the activity and 

11 a description of the roles of any such department or 

12 agency with respect to such activity. 

13 (c) FORM OF NOTICE.—A notice under this section 

14 shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 

15 a classified annex only to the extent necessary to protect 

16 against identified, specific threats to the national security 

17 of the United States. 

18 (d) DELAY OF NOTICE.—If the head of an element 

19 of the intelligence community that is required to provide 

20 notice under subsection (a) determines it is necessary, and 

21 in the event of a specific threat to the national security 

22 of the United States caused by a national emergency, the 

23 head of the element may delay the submittal of such notice 

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1 section, the head shall advise the chair and ranking mem2 bers of the congressional intelligence committees of the ac3 tivity covered by the notice as soon as possible but not 

4 later than 24 hours after the element has commenced the 

5 activity. 

6 (e) PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY ACTION DOCU7 MENT.—In this section, the term ‘‘presidential emergency 

8 action document’’ means— 

9 (1) each of the approximately 56 documents de10 scribed as presidential emergency action documents 

11 in the budget justification materials for the Office of 

12 Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice sub13 mitted to Congress in support of the budget of the 

14 President for fiscal year 2018; and 

15 (2) any other pre-coordinated legal document in 

16 existence before, on, or after the date of the enact17 ment of this Act that— 

18 (A) is designated as a presidential emer19 gency action document; or 

20 (B) is designed to implement a presidential 

21 decision or transmit a presidential request when 

22 an emergency disrupts normal governmental or 

23 legislative processes. 


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1 SEC. 305. REQUIREMENT TO BUY CERTAIN SATELLITE COM2 PONENT FROM AMERICAN SOURCES. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title XI of the National Security 

4 Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3231 et seq.) is amended by add5 ing at the end the following new section: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 1109. REQUIREMENT TO BUY CERTAIN SATELLITE 

7 COMPONENT FROM AMERICAN SOURCES. 

8 ‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—Beginning January 1, 2021, 

9 except as provided in subsection (b), a covered element 

10 of the intelligence community may not award a contract 

11 for a national security satellite if the satellite uses a star 

12 tracker that is not produced in the United States, includ13 ing with respect to both the software and the hardware 

14 of the star tracker. 

15 ‘‘(b) EXCEPTION.—The head of a covered element of 

16 the intelligence community may waive the requirement 

17 under subsection (a) if, on a case-by-case basis, the head 

18 certifies in writing to the congressional intelligence com19 mittees that— 

20 ‘‘(1) there is no available star tracker produced 

21 in the United States that meets the mission and de22 sign requirements of the national security satellite 

23 for which the star tracker will be used; 

24 ‘‘(2) the cost of a star tracker produced in the 

25 United States is unreasonable, based on a market 

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1 ‘‘(3) such waiver is necessary for the national 

2 security interests of the United States based on an 

3 urgent and compelling need. 

4 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

5 ‘‘(1) COVERED ELEMENT OF THE INTEL6 LIGENCE COMMUNITY.—The term ‘covered element 

7 of the intelligence community’ means an element of 

8 the intelligence community that is not an element of 

9 the Department of Defense. 

10 ‘‘(2) NATIONAL SECURITY SATELLITE.—The 

11 term ‘national security satellite’ means a satellite 

12 weighing over 400 pounds whose principle purpose is 

13 to support the national security or intelligence needs 

14 of the United States Government. 

15 ‘‘(3) UNITED STATES.—The term ‘United 

16 States’ means the several States, the District of Co17 lumbia, and the territories and possessions of the 

18 United States.’’. 

19 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

20 in the first section of the National Security Act of 1947 

21 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

22 1108 the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1109. Requirement to buy certain satellite component from American 

sources.’’. 


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1 SEC. 306. LIMITATION ON CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES 

2 TO BE USED PRIMARILY BY INTELLIGENCE 

3 COMMUNITY. 

4 Section 602(a)(2) of the Intelligence Authorization 

5 Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (50 U.S.C. 3304(a)(2)) is 

6 amended— 

7 (1) by striking ‘‘$1,000,000’’ both places it ap8 pears and inserting ‘‘$2,000,000’’; and 

9 (2) by striking ‘‘the Director of National Intel10 ligence shall submit a notification’’ and inserting 

11 ‘‘the head of such component, in coordination with 

12 and subject to the approval of the Director of Na13 tional Intelligence, shall submit a notification’’. 

14 SEC. 307. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY STUDENT LOAN RE15 PAYMENT PROGRAMS. 

16 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con17 gress that— 

18 (1) student loan repayment programs are a cru19 cial tool in attracting and retaining talented individ20 uals to the intelligence community, particularly indi21 viduals from diverse backgrounds; 

22 (2) generous student loan repayment programs 

23 help the intelligence community compete with the 

24 private sector for talented employees; 

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1 to establish student loan repayment programs either 

2 under section 5379 of title 5, United States Code, 

3 or under the delegable authority of the Director of 

4 National Intelligence under section 102A(n)(1) of 

5 the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 

6 3024(n)(1)); 

7 (4) although the Director should use the au8 thority under such section 102A(n)(1) sparingly, 

9 and should be exceedingly sparing in delegating such 

10 authority to an element of the intelligence commu11 nity, the Director should approve well-predicated re12 quests for such authority in the student loan repay13 ment context if an element of the intelligence com14 munity can articulate an impediment to establishing 

15 or enhancing a program under section 5379 of title 

16 5, United States Code; and 

17 (5) student loan repayment programs estab18 lished by an element of the intelligence community 

19 should provide flexibility to intelligence community 

20 employees, including employees who pursue loan-fi21 nanced education in the middle of their careers or 

22 after the day on which they first become intelligence 

23 community employees. 

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1 actment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, 

2 or a designee of the Director who is an employee of the 

3 Office of the Director of National Intelligence, shall estab4 lish minimum standards for the repayment of student 

5 loans of employees of elements of the intelligence commu6 nity by such elements of the intelligence community. 

7 (c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 

8 of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit 

9 to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 

10 the standards established under subsection (b). Such re11 port shall include— 

12 (1) an explanation of why such minimum stand13 ards were established; and 

14 (2) how such standards advance the goals of— 

15 (A) attracting and retaining a talented in16 telligence community workforce; 

17 (B) competing with private sector compa18 nies for talented employees; and 

19 (C) promoting the development of a diverse 

20 workforce. 

21 (d) FAILURE TO MEET STANDARDS.—Not later than 

22 180 days after the date on which the standards required 

23 under subsection (b) are established, the head of an ele24 ment of the intelligence community that does not meet 

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1 sional committees a report containing an explanation for 

2 why such element does not meet such standards and an 

3 identification of any additional authority or appropriations 

4 required to for the element to meet such standards. 

5 (e) SUBMITTAL OF REGULATIONS AND POLICIES TO

6 CONGRESS.—Not later than 180 days after the date on 

7 which the standards required under subsection (b) are es8 tablished, the head of an element of the intelligence com9 munity shall submit to the appropriate congressional com10 mittees a copy of all internal regulations and policies gov11 erning the student loan repayment program of that ele12 ment as well as copies of such policies redacted to remove 

13 classified information. 

14 (f) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE15 FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres16 sional committees’’ means— 

17 (1) the Permanent Select Committee on Intel18 ligence of the House of Representatives; 

19 (2) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 

20 Senate; 

21 (3) with respect to an element of the intel22 ligence community within the Department of De23 fense, the Committees on Armed Services of the 

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1 (4) with respect to an element of the intel2 ligence community within the Department of Jus3 tice, the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate 

4 and House of Representatives; 

5 (5) with respect to an element of the intel6 ligence community within the Department of Home7 land Security, the Committee on Homeland Security 

8 and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 

9 Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 

10 Representatives; 

11 (6) with respect to an element of the intel12 ligence community within the Department of State, 

13 the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 

14 and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 

15 of Representatives; 

16 (7) with respect to an element of the intel17 ligence community within the Department of En18 ergy, the Committee on Energy and Natural Re19 sources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy 

20 and Commerce of the House of Representatives; and 

21 (8) with respect to an element of the intel22 ligence community within the Department of the 

23 Treasury, the Committee on Finance of the Senate 

24 and the Committee on Financial Services of the 

25 House of Representatives. 


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1 (g) FORM OF REPORTS.—Each of the reports re2 quired under subsections (c) and (d) shall be submitted 

3 in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex. 

4 SEC. 308. PAID LEAVE FOR A SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION. 

5 (a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to— 

6 (1) help the intelligence community recruit and 

7 retain a dynamic, multi-talented, and diverse work8 force capable of meeting the security goals of the 

9 United States; and 

10 (2) establish best practices and processes for 

11 other elements of the Federal Government seeking to 

12 pursue similar policies. 

13 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF PAID LEAVE FOR A SERIOUS

14 HEALTH CONDITION FOR EMPLOYEES OF ELEMENTS OF

15 THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.— 

16 (1) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the National Se17 curity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3071 et seq.) is 

18 amended by inserting after section 304 the fol19 lowing: 

20 ‘‘SEC. 305. PAID LEAVE FOR A SERIOUS HEALTH CONDI21 TION. 

22 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

23 ‘‘(1) PAID SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION

24 LEAVE.—The term ‘paid serious health condition 

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1 ‘‘(2) SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION.—The term 

2 ‘serious health condition’ has the meaning given the 

3 term in section 6381 of title 5, United States Code. 

4 ‘‘(3) SON OR DAUGHTER.—The term ‘son or 

5 daughter’ has the meaning given the term in section 

6 6381 of title 5, United States Code. 

7 ‘‘(b) PAID SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION LEAVE.— 

8 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a civilian em9 ployee of an element of the intelligence community shall 

10 have available a total of 12 administrative workweeks of 

11 paid leave during any 12-month period for one or more 

12 of the following: 

13 ‘‘(1) In order to care for the spouse, or a son, 

14 daughter, or parent, of the employee, if such spouse, 

15 son, daughter, or parent has a serious health condi16 tion. 

17 ‘‘(2) Because of a serious health condition that 

18 makes the employee unable to perform the functions 

19 of the employee’s position. 

20 ‘‘(c) TREATMENT OF SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION

21 LEAVE REQUEST.—Notwithstanding any other provision 

22 of law, an element of the intelligence community shall ac23 commodate an employee’s leave schedule request under 

24 subsection (b), including a request to use such leave inter25 mittently or on a reduced leave schedule, to the extent that 


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1 the requested leave schedule does not unduly disrupt agen2 cy operations. 

3 ‘‘(d) RULES RELATING TO PAID LEAVE.—Notwith4 standing any other provision of law— 

5 ‘‘(1) an employee of an element of the intel6 ligence community may not be required to first use 

7 all or any portion of any unpaid leave available to 

8 the employee before being allowed to use paid seri9 ous health condition leave; and 

10 ‘‘(2) paid serious health condition leave— 

11 ‘‘(A) shall be payable from any appropria12 tion or fund available for salaries or expenses 

13 for positions within the employing element; 

14 ‘‘(B) may not be considered to be annual 

15 or vacation leave for purposes of section 5551 

16 or 5552 of title 5, United States Code, or for 

17 any other purpose; 

18 ‘‘(C) if not used by the employee before the 

19 end of the 12-month period described in sub20 section (b) to which the leave relates, may not 

21 be available for any subsequent use and may 

22 not be converted into a cash payment; 

23 ‘‘(D) may be granted only to the extent 

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1 more than 12 weeks of paid serious health con2 dition leave in any 12-month period; 

3 ‘‘(E) shall be used in increments of hours 

4 (or fractions thereof), with 12 administrative 

5 workweeks equal to 480 hours for employees of 

6 elements of the intelligence community with a 

7 regular full-time work schedule and converted 

8 to a proportional number of hours for employ9 ees of such elements with part-time, seasonal, 

10 or uncommon tours of duty; and 

11 ‘‘(F) may not be used during off-season 

12 (nonpay status) periods for employees of such 

13 elements with seasonal work schedules. 

14 ‘‘(e) IMPLEMENTATION.— 

15 ‘‘(1) CONSISTENCY WITH SERIOUS HEALTH

16 CONDITION LEAVE UNDER TITLE 5.—The Director 

17 of National Intelligence shall carry out this section 

18 in a manner consistent, to the extent appropriate, 

19 with the administration of leave taken under section 

20 6382 of title 5, United States Code, for a reason de21 scribed in subparagraph (C) or (D) of subsection 

22 (a)(1) of that section. 

23 ‘‘(2) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than 

24 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, 

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1 the congressional intelligence committees an imple2 mentation plan that includes— 

3 ‘‘(A) processes and procedures for imple4 menting the paid serious health condition leave 

5 policies under subsections (b) through (d); 

6 ‘‘(B) an explanation of how the implemen7 tation of subsections (b) through (d) will be rec8 onciled with policies of other elements of the 

9 Federal Government, including the impact on 

10 elements funded by the National Intelligence 

11 Program that are housed within agencies out12 side the intelligence community; 

13 ‘‘(C) the projected impact of the implemen14 tation of subsections (b) through (d) on the 

15 workforce of the intelligence community, includ16 ing take rates, retention, recruiting, and mo17 rale, broken down by each element of the intel18 ligence community; and 

19 ‘‘(D) all costs or operational expenses asso20 ciated with the implementation of subsections 

21 (b) through (d). 

22 ‘‘(3) DIRECTIVE.—Not later than 90 days after 

23 the Director of National Intelligence submits the im24 plementation plan under paragraph (2), the Director 

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1 tive to implement this section, which directive shall 

2 take effect on the date of issuance. 

3 ‘‘(f) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Director of National In4 telligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence 

5 committees an annual report that— 

6 ‘‘(1) details the number of employees of each 

7 element of the intelligence community who applied 

8 for and took paid serious health condition leave dur9 ing the year covered by the report; and 

10 ‘‘(2) includes updates on major implementation 

11 challenges or costs associated with paid serious 

12 health condition leave.’’. 

13 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con14 tents at the beginning of such Act is amended by in15 serting after the item relating to section 304 the fol16 lowing: 

‘‘Sec. 305. Paid serious health condition leave.’’. 

17 (c) APPLICABILITY.—Section 305 of the National Se18 curity Act of 1947, as added by subsection (b), shall apply 

19 with respect to leave taken in connection with a serious 

20 health condition (as defined in subsection (a) of such sec21 tion 305) that occurs or continues to exist on or after the 

22 date on which the Director of National Intelligence issues 

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1 SEC. 309. REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT AC2 TIVITIES BY FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFI3 CERS AND EMPLOYEES. 

4 (a) MODIFICATIONS TO REQUIREMENT.— 

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 304 of the National 

6 Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3073a) is amended 

7 to read as follows: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 304. REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT AC9 TIVITIES BY FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFI10 CERS AND EMPLOYEES. 

11 ‘‘(a) TEMPORARY RESTRICTION.—An employee of an 

12 element of the intelligence community who occupies a cov13 ered intelligence position may not occupy a covered post14 service position during the 30-month period following the 

15 date on which the employee ceases to occupy a covered 

16 intelligence position. 

17 ‘‘(b) COVERED POST-SERVICE EMPLOYMENT RE18 PORTING.— 

19 ‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—The head of each ele20 ment of the intelligence community shall issue regu21 lations requiring, as a condition of employment, each 

22 employee of such element occupying a covered intel23 ligence position to sign a written agreement requir24 ing the regular reporting of covered post-service em25 ployment to the head of such element. 

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1 ‘‘(A) REPORTING COVERED POST-SERVICE

2 EMPLOYMENT.—The regulations required under 

3 paragraph (1) shall provide that an agreement 

4 contain provisions requiring each employee oc5 cupying a covered intelligence position to, dur6 ing the 5-year period beginning on the date on 

7 which such employee ceases to occupy such cov8 ered intelligence position— 

9 ‘‘(i) report covered post-service em10 ployment to the head of the element of the 

11 intelligence community that employed such 

12 employee in such covered intelligence posi13 tion upon accepting such covered post-serv14 ice employment; and 

15 ‘‘(ii) annually (or more frequently if 

16 the head of such element considers it ap17 propriate) report covered post-service em18 ployment to the head of such element. 

19 ‘‘(B) INFORMATION INCLUDED.—Each re20 port by an employee under subparagraph (A) 

21 shall include the following information: 

22 ‘‘(i) The name of the employer. 

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1 or entity, for whom the covered post-serv2 ice employment is being performed. 

3 ‘‘(iii) The title and role of the covered 

4 post-service position. 

5 ‘‘(iv) The nature of the services pro6 vided as part of the covered post-service 

7 employment. 

8 ‘‘(v) All financial compensation and 

9 benefits received or promised for the cov10 ered post-service employment. 

11 ‘‘(vi) A self-certification that none of 

12 the services provided as part of the covered 

13 post-service employment violate Federal 

14 law, infringe upon the privacy rights of 

15 United States persons, or constitute abuses 

16 of human rights. 

17 ‘‘(c) PENALTIES.— 

18 ‘‘(1) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.—A former em19 ployee who knowingly and willfully violates sub20 section (a) or who knowingly and willfully fails to 

21 make a required report under subsection (b) shall be 

22 fined under title 18, United States Code, or impris23 oned for not more than 5 years, or both. Each re24 port under subsection (b) shall be subject to section 

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1 ‘‘(2) SECURITY CLEARANCES.—The head of an 

2 element of the intelligence community shall revoke 

3 the security clearance of a former employee if the 

4 former employee knowingly and willfully fails to 

5 make a required report under subsection (b) or 

6 knowingly and willfully makes a false report under 

7 subsection. 

8 ‘‘(d) TRAINING.—The head of each element of the in9 telligence community shall provide training on the report10 ing requirements under subsection (b) to each employee 

11 who ceases to occupy a covered intelligence position. 

12 ‘‘(e) ANNUAL REPORTS.— 

13 ‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than March 31 

14 of each year, the Director of National Intelligence 

15 shall submit to the congressional intelligence com16 mittees a report on covered post-service employment 

17 occurring during the year covered by the report. 

18 ‘‘(2) ELEMENTS.—Each report under para19 graph (1) shall include the following: 

20 ‘‘(A) The number of former employees who 

21 occupy a covered post-service position, broken 

22 down by— 

23 ‘‘(i) the name of the employer; 

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1 cy, or entity, for whom the covered post2 service employment is being performed; 

3 and 

4 ‘‘(iii) the nature of the services pro5 vided as part of the covered post-service 

6 employment. 

7 ‘‘(B) A certification by the Director that— 

8 ‘‘(i) each element of the intelligence 

9 community maintains adequate systems 

10 and processes for ensuring that former em11 ployees are submitting reports required 

12 under subsection (b); 

13 ‘‘(ii) to the knowledge of the heads of 

14 the elements of the intelligence community, 

15 all former employees who occupy a covered 

16 post-service position are in compliance with 

17 this section; 

18 ‘‘(iii) the services provided by former 

19 employees who occupy a covered post-serv20 ice position do not— 

21 ‘‘(I) pose a current or future 

22 threat to the national security of the 

23 United States; or 

24 ‘‘(II) pose a counterintelligence 

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1 ‘‘(iv) the Director and the heads of 

2 such elements are not aware of any cred3 ible information or reporting that any indi4 vidual described in clause (iii) has engaged 

5 in activities that violate Federal law, in6 fringe upon the privacy rights of United 

7 States persons, or constitute abuses of 

8 human rights. 

9 ‘‘(3) FORM.—Each report under paragraph (1) 

10 shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may in11 clude a classified annex. 

12 ‘‘(f) NOTIFICATION.—In addition to the annual re13 ports under subsection (e), if a head of an element of the 

14 intelligence community determines that the circumstances 

15 described in either clause (iii) or (iv) of paragraph (2) of 

16 such subsection occur with respect to a former employee 

17 described in those clauses, the head shall notify the con18 gressional intelligence committees of such determination 

19 by not later than 7 days after making such determination. 

20 The notification shall include the following: 

21 ‘‘(1) The name of the former employee. 

22 ‘‘(2) The name of the employer. 

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1 the covered post-service employment is being per2 formed. 

3 ‘‘(4) As applicable, a description of— 

4 ‘‘(A) the risk to national security, the 

5 counterintelligence risk, or both; and 

6 ‘‘(B) the activities that may violate Fed7 eral law, infringe upon the privacy rights of 

8 United States persons, or constitute abuses of 

9 human rights. 

10 ‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

11 ‘‘(1) COVERED INTELLIGENCE POSITION.—The 

12 term ‘covered intelligence position’ means a position 

13 within an element of the intelligence community 

14 that, based on the level of access of a person occu15 pying such position to information regarding sen16 sitive intelligence sources or methods or other excep17 tionally sensitive matters, the head of such element 

18 determines should be subject to the requirements of 

19 this section. 

20 ‘‘(2) COVERED POST-SERVICE EMPLOYMENT.— 

21 The term ‘covered post-service employment’ means 

22 direct or indirect employment by, representation of, 

23 or any provision of advice or services relating to na24 tional security, intelligence, the military, or internal 

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1 any company, entity, or other person whose activities 

2 are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, con3 trolled, financed, or subsidized, in whole or in major 

4 part, by any government of a foreign country. 

5 ‘‘(3) COVERED POST-SERVICE POSITION.—The 

6 term ‘covered post-service position’ means a position 

7 of employment described in paragraph (2). 

8 ‘‘(4) EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘employee’, with 

9 respect to an employee occupying a covered intel10 ligence position, includes an officer or official of an 

11 element of the intelligence community, a contractor 

12 of such an element, a detailee to such an element, 

13 or a member of the Armed Forces assigned to such 

14 an element. 

15 ‘‘(5) FORMER EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘former 

16 employee’ means an individual— 

17 ‘‘(A) who was an employee occupying a 

18 covered intelligence position; and 

19 ‘‘(B) who is subject to the requirements 

20 under subsections (a) or (b). 

21 ‘‘(6) GOVERNMENT OF A FOREIGN COUNTRY.— 

22 The term ‘government of a foreign country’ has the 

23 meaning given the term in section 1(e) of the For24 eign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 U.S.C. 

25 611(e)).’’. 


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1 (2) REVISED REGULATIONS.— 

2 (A) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 90 days 

3 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

4 head of each element of the intelligence commu5 nity shall submit to the congressional intel6 ligence committees updated regulations issued 

7 under such section 304, as amended by para8 graph (1). 

9 (B) CERTIFICATION.—Not later than 180 

10 days after the date of the enactment of this 

11 Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall 

12 submit to the congressional intelligence commit13 tees— 

14 (i) a written certification for each 

15 head of an element of the intelligence com16 munity who has issued the updated regula17 tions under such section 304, as amended 

18 by paragraph (1); and 

19 (ii) for each head of an element of the 

20 intelligence community who has not issued 

21 such updated regulations, an explanation 

22 for the failure to issue such updated regu23 lations. 

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1 under subsection (e) of such section 304, as amend2 ed by paragraph (1), the Director shall include an 

3 assessment of the licensing requirements under the 

4 Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) 

5 and recommendations with respect to strengthening 

6 the activities regulated under such section 304. 

7 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

8 at the beginning of such Act is amended by striking the 

9 item relating to section 304 and inserting the following 

10 new item: 

‘‘Sec. 304. Requirements for certain employment activities by former intelligence officers and employees.’’. 

11 TITLE IV—MATTERS RELATING 

12 TO ELEMENTS OF THE INTEL13 LIGENCE COMMUNITY 

14 SEC. 401. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY OF NATIONAL RE15 CONNAISSANCE OFFICE. 

16 Section 106A of the National Security Act of 1947 

17 (50 U.S.C. 3041a) is amended— 

18 (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub19 section (e); and 

20 (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol21 lowing new subsection (d): 

22 ‘‘(d) CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY.—The Director 

23 of National Intelligence may not transfer any element of 

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1 Nothing in chapter 908 of title 10, United States Code, 

2 shall affect the authorities, duties, or responsibilities of 

3 the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, in4 cluding with respect to the authority of the Director to 

5 operate a unified organization to carry out the research, 

6 development, test, evaluation, acquisition, launch, deploy7 ment, and operations of overhead reconnaissance systems 

8 and related data processing facilities of the National Re9 connaissance Office.’’. 

10 SEC. 402. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE OF THE OMBUDS11 MAN FOR ANALYTIC OBJECTIVITY. 

12 (a) OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN FOR ANALYTIC OB13 JECTIVITY.—The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 

14 (50 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 

15 the following: 

16 ‘‘SEC. 24. OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN FOR ANALYTIC OB17 JECTIVITY. 

18 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 

19 Agency an Office of the Ombudsman for Analytic Objec20 tivity (in this section referred to as the ‘Office’), which 

21 shall be headed by an Ombudsman. The Ombudsman shall 

22 be appointed by the Director from among the senior staff 

23 officers of the Agency. 

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1 ‘‘(1) on an annual basis, conduct a survey of 

2 analytic objectivity among officers and employees of 

3 the Agency; 

4 ‘‘(2) implement a procedure by which any offi5 cer or employee of the Agency may submit to the Of6 fice a complaint alleging politicization, bias, lack of 

7 objectivity, or other issues relating to a failure of 

8 tradecraft in analysis conducted by the Agency; 

9 ‘‘(3) except as provided in paragraph (4), upon 

10 receiving a complaint submitted pursuant to para11 graph (2), take reasonable action to investigate the 

12 complaint, make a determination as to whether the 

13 incident described in the complaint involved 

14 politicization, bias, or lack of objectivity, and pre15 pare a report that— 

16 ‘‘(A) summarizes the facts relevant to the 

17 complaint; 

18 ‘‘(B) documents the determination of the 

19 Ombudsman with respect to the complaint; and 

20 ‘‘(C) contains a recommendation for reme21 dial action; 

22 ‘‘(4) if a complaint submitted pursuant to para23 graph (2) alleges politicization, bias, or lack of ob24 jectivity in the collection of intelligence information, 


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1 refer the complaint to the official responsible for su2 pervising collection operations of the Agency; and 

3 ‘‘(5) continuously monitor changes in areas of 

4 analysis that the Ombudsman determines involve a 

5 heightened risk of politicization, bias, or lack of ob6 jectivity, to ensure that any change in the analytic 

7 line arises from proper application of analytic 

8 tradecraft and not as a result of politicization, bias, 

9 or lack of objectivity. 

10 ‘‘(c) REPORTS.—(1) On an annual basis, the Om11 budsman shall submit to the intelligence committees a re12 port on the results of the survey conducted pursuant to 

13 subsection (b)(1) with respect to the most recent fiscal 

14 year. 

15 ‘‘(2) On an annual basis, the Ombudsman shall sub16 mit to the intelligence committees a report that includes— 

17 ‘‘(A) the number of complaints of submitted 

18 pursuant to subsection (b)(2) during the most recent 

19 fiscal year; and 

20 ‘‘(B) a description of the nature of such com21 plaints, the actions taken by the Office or any other 

22 relevant element or component of the Agency with 

23 respect to such complaints, and the resolution of 

24 such complaints. 


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1 ‘‘(3) On a quarterly basis, the Ombudsman shall sub2 mit to the intelligence committees a report that includes— 

3 ‘‘(A) a list of the areas of analysis monitored 

4 during the most recent calendar quarter pursuant to 

5 subsection (b)(5); and 

6 ‘‘(B) a brief description of the methods by 

7 which the Office has conducted such monitoring. 

8 ‘‘(d) INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES DEFINED.—In 

9 this section, the term ‘intelligence committees’ means the 

10 Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House 

11 of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intel12 ligence of the Senate.’’. 

13 (b) REFERENCE.—Any reference in any law, regula14 tion, map, document, paper, or other record of the United 

15 States to the Ombudsman for Analytic and Collection Ob16 jectivity of the Central Intelligence Agency shall be 

17 deemed to be a reference to the Office of the Ombudsman 

18 for Analytic Objectivity of the Central Intelligence Agency 

19 established by section 24(a) of the Central Intelligence 

20 Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), as added 

21 by subsection (a). 

22 (c) REPORT ON SURVEYS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2018 

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1 ligence committees any reports previously prepared by the 

2 Ombudsman for Analytic and Collection Objectivity with 

3 respect to the surveys of analytic objectivity conducted for 

4 fiscal years 2018 and 2019. 

5 SEC. 403. PLACEMENT ON THE EXECUTIVE SCHEDULE FOR 

6 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIRECTORS OF 

7 THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY AND THE 

8 NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5314 of title 5, United 

10 States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relat11 ing to the Executive Secretary, National Space Council the 

12 following new items: 

13 ‘‘Director of the National Security Agency. 

14 ‘‘Director of the National Reconnaissance Of15 fice.’’. 

16 (b) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by sub17 section (a) shall apply with respect to— 

18 (1) any individual who is appointed to serve as 

19 the Director of the National Security Agency on or 

20 after the date of the enactment of this Act; and 

21 (2) any individual who is appointed to serve as 

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1 SEC. 404. EXPANSION OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AU2 THORITY TO ATTRACT EXPERTS IN SCIENCE 

3 AND ENGINEERING. 

4 Section 1599h of title 10, United States Code, is 

5 amended— 

6 (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the 

7 following new paragraph: 

8 ‘‘(7) NGA.—The Director of the National 

9 Geospatial-Intelligence Agency may carry out a pro10 gram of personnel management authority provided 

11 in subsection (b) in order to facilitate recruitment of 

12 eminent experts in science or engineering for re13 search and development projects and to enhance the 

14 administration and management of the Agency.’’; 

15 (2) in subsection (b)(1)— 

16 (A) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘; 

17 and’’; 

18 (B) in subparagraph (F), by striking the 

19 semicolon and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

20 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

21 subparagraph: 

22 ‘‘(G) in the case of the National 

23 Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, appoint individ24 uals to a total of not more than 7 positions in 

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1 sitions may be positions of administration or 

2 management in the Agency;’’; and 

3 (3) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ‘‘or the 

4 Joint Artificial Intelligence Center’’ and inserting 

5 ‘‘the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, or the Na6 tional Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’’. 

7 SEC. 405. SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAMS: CONGRESSIONAL 

8 OVERSIGHT. 

9 Section 119 of title 10, United States Code, is 

10 amended— 

11 (1) by striking subsection (g) and inserting the 

12 following new subsection: 

13 ‘‘(g) In this section, the term ‘appropriate congres14 sional committees’ means the following: 

15 ‘‘(1) The Committee on Armed Services and the 

16 Committee on Appropriations, and the Defense Sub17 committee of the Committee on Appropriations, of 

18 the Senate. 

19 ‘‘(2) The Committee on Armed Services and the 

20 Committee on Appropriations, and the Sub21 committee on Defense of the Committee on Appro22 priations, of the House of Representatives. 

23 ‘‘(3) With respect to a special access program 

24 or a new special access program covered by a report 

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1 of Defense determines to be an intelligence or intel2 ligence-related special access program, and with re3 spect to any other special access program or new 

4 special access program covered by a report or notifi5 cation under this section or any other matters that 

6 the Secretary determines appropriate, the Perma7 nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House 

8 of Representatives and the Select Committee on In9 telligence of the Senate.’’; and 

10 (2) by striking ‘‘defense committees’’ each place 

11 it appears and inserting ‘‘appropriate congressional 

12 committees’’. 

13 SEC. 406. SENIOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER SHANNON KENT 

14 AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED FEMALE PER15 SONNEL OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGEN16 CY. 

17 The National Security Agency Act of 1959 (50 

18 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 

19 the following new section: 

20 ‘‘SEC. 21. SENIOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER SHANNON KENT 

21 AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED FEMALE PER22 SONNEL. 

23 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the Na24 tional Security Agency shall establish an honorary award 

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1 curity Agency for distinguished career contributions in 

2 support of the mission of the Agency as civilian employees 

3 or members of the Armed Forces assigned to the Agency. 

4 The award shall be known as the ‘Senior Chief Petty Offi5 cer Shannon Kent Award’ and shall consist of a design 

6 determined appropriate by the Director. 

7 ‘‘(b) AWARD.—The Director shall award the Senior 

8 Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent Award to female civil9 ian employees, members of the Armed Forces, or former 

10 civilian employees or members, whom the Director deter11 mines meet the criteria under subsection (a).’’. 

12 SEC. 407. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY INTEL13 LIGENCE AND CYBERSECURITY DIVERSITY 

14 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. 

15 (a) PROGRAM.—Subtitle D of title XIII of the Home16 land Security Act of 2002 (5 U.S.C. 3301 note et seq.) 

17 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 

18 ‘‘SEC. 1333. INTELLIGENCE AND CYBERSECURITY DIVER19 SITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. 

20 ‘‘(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall carry out an in21 telligence and cybersecurity diversity fellowship program 

22 (in this section referred to as the ‘Program’) under which 

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1 ‘‘(1) participate in a paid internship at the De2 partment that relates to intelligence, cybersecurity, 

3 or some combination thereof; 

4 ‘‘(2) receive tuition assistance from the Sec5 retary; and 

6 ‘‘(3) upon graduation from an institution of 

7 higher education and successful completion of the 

8 Program (as defined by the Secretary), receive an 

9 offer of employment to work in an intelligence or cy10 bersecurity position of the Department that is in the 

11 excepted service. 

12 ‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to participate in 

13 the Program, an individual shall— 

14 ‘‘(1) be a citizen of the United States; and 

15 ‘‘(2) as of the date of submitting the applica16 tion to participate in the Program— 

17 ‘‘(A) have a cumulative grade point aver18 age of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale; and 

19 ‘‘(B) be a sophomore, junior, or senior 

20 at— 

21 ‘‘(i) a historically Black college or uni22 versity or a minority-serving institution; or 

23 ‘‘(ii) an institution of higher education 

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1 and be an active participant in a minority2 serving organization of such institution. 

3 ‘‘(c) DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY.—If an individual 

4 who receives an offer of employment under subsection 

5 (a)(3) accepts such offer, the Secretary shall appoint, 

6 without regard to provisions of subchapter I of chapter 

7 33 of title 5, United States Code, (except for section 3328 

8 of such title) such individual to the position specified in 

9 such offer. 

10 ‘‘(d) REPORTS.— 

11 ‘‘(1) REPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after the 

12 date of the enactment of this section, and on an an13 nual basis thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to 

14 the appropriate committees of Congress a report on 

15 the Program. 

16 ‘‘(2) MATTERS.—Each report under paragraph 

17 (1) shall include, with respect to the most recent 

18 year, the following: 

19 ‘‘(A) A description of outreach efforts by 

20 the Secretary to raise awareness of the Pro21 gram among institutions of higher education in 

22 which eligible individuals are enrolled. 

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1 ‘‘(C) The number of individuals partici2 pating in the Program, listed by the institution 

3 of higher education in which the individual is 

4 enrolled at the time of participation, and infor5 mation on the nature of such participation, in6 cluding on whether the duties of the individual 

7 under the Program relate primarily to intel8 ligence or to cybersecurity. 

9 ‘‘(D) The number of individuals who ac10 cepted an offer of employment under the Pro11 gram and an identification of the element with12 in the Department to which each individual was 

13 appointed. 

14 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

15 ‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON16 GRESS.—The term ‘appropriate committees of Con17 gress’ means— 

18 ‘‘(A) the Committee on Homeland Security 

19 and the Permanent Select Committee on Intel20 ligence of the House of Representatives; and 

21 ‘‘(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 

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1 ‘‘(2) EXCEPTED SERVICE.—The term ‘excepted 

2 service’ has the meaning given that term in section 

3 2103 of title 5, United States Code. 

4 ‘‘(3) HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE OR UNI5 VERSITY.—The term ‘historically Black college or 

6 university’ has the meaning given the term ‘part B 

7 institution’ in section 322 of the Higher Education 

8 Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061). 

9 ‘‘(4) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.— 

10 The term ‘institution of higher education’ has the 

11 meaning given that term in section 101 of the High12 er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 

13 ‘‘(5) MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTION.—The 

14 term ‘minority-serving institution’ means an institu15 tion of higher education described in section 371(a) 

16 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 

17 1067q(a)).’’. 

18 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

19 for such Act is amended by inserting after the item relat20 ing to section 1332 the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1333. Intelligence and cybersecurity diversity fellowship program.’’. 

21 SEC. 408. CLIMATE SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL AND CLI22 MATE SECURITY INTELLIGENCE CENTER. 

23 (a) CLIMATE SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL.— 

24 (1) REPEAL OF SUNSET.—Section 120 of the 

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1 amended by striking subsection (d) and redesig2 nating subsection (e) as subsection (d). 

3 (2) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Subsection 

4 (c)(4) of such section is amended by striking ‘‘secu5 rity indicators’’ and inserting ‘‘intelligence indica6 tions’’. 

7 (b) PLAN FOR CLIMATE SECURITY INTELLIGENCE

8 CENTER.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 

9 enactment of this Act, the chair of the Climate Security 

10 Advisory Council established under section 120 of the Na11 tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3060) shall submit 

12 to the congressional intelligence committees a written plan 

13 to permanently establish within the Office of the Director 

14 of National Intelligence a Climate Security Intelligence 

15 Center (to be headed by a Director appointed by the Di16 rector of National Intelligence) to fulfil each of the duties 

17 described in subsection (c). Such plan shall include the 

18 following: 

19 (1) Recommendations for the Center, developed 

20 based on findings by the Climate Security Advisory 

21 Council in carrying out its duties and responsibil22 ities, that relate to— 

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1 (B) the composition and staffing of the 

2 Center with personnel from agencies of the 

3 Federal Government, including through the de4 tail of nonintelligence community personnel to 

5 the Center; and 

6 (C) approaches to data-sharing, informa7 tion exchanges, and other types of collaboration 

8 (at the appropriate level of classification), on 

9 matters relating to climate security and envi10 ronmental science between the Center and— 

11 (i) elements of the Federal Govern12 ment that are not elements of the intel13 ligence community; and 

14 (ii) other key stakeholders in the sci15 entific enterprise of the United States, in16 cluding institutions of higher education, 

17 Federal research laboratories (including 

18 the national security laboratories), private 

19 industry, and nonprofit research organiza20 tions. 

21 (2) A proposed process for transferring from 

22 the Climate Security Advisory Council to the Center 

23 the functions currently carried out by such Council, 

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1 on the feasibility of establishing the Center and com2 pleting the transfer by the end of 2022. 

3 (3) A request for any resources, facilities, per4 sonnel, or authorities that the Climate Security Ad5 visory Council determines necessary to ensure that, 

6 upon establishment, the Center and its Director may 

7 fulfil the duties described in subsection (c). 

8 (c) DUTIES.—The duties described in this subsection 

9 are the following: 

10 (1) To serve as the primary organization within 

11 the intelligence community for— 

12 (A) analyzing climate security threats and 

13 the climate influence of the United States; and 

14 (B) identifying and disseminating climate 

15 intelligence indications and warnings. 

16 (2) To assess and identify best practices in the 

17 analysis of climate security, including identifying 

18 publicly available information and clandestinely col19 lected intelligence that enables such analysis. 

20 (3) To assess and identify best practices with 

21 respect to prior efforts of the intelligence community 

22 to analyze climate security, including— 

23 (A) the Measurements of Earth Data for 

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1 (B) the Center on Climate Change and 

2 National Security of the Central Intelligence 

3 Agency; and 

4 (C) climate security-related activities of the 

5 Director of National Intelligence. 

6 (4) To use the best practices identified under 

7 paragraphs (2) and (3) to inform the work of the 

8 Climate Security Intelligence Center. 

9 (5) To consult, as appropriate, with other ele10 ments of the intelligence community and Federal 

11 agencies to avoid duplication of existing efforts. 

12 (6) To carry out any functions transferred pur13 suant to the process proposed in subsection (b)(2). 

14 (7) To perform such other duties as the Direc15 tor of National Intelligence shall specify. 

16 (d) STUDY ON ADVISORY COUNCIL MODEL FOR

17 STRATEGIC OR TRANSNATIONAL THREATS.— 

18 (1) STUDY.—The Director of National Intel19 ligence, in coordination with the heads of other ele20 ments of the intelligence community determined ap21 propriate by the Director, shall conduct a study on 

22 the effectiveness of the Climate Security Advisory 

23 Council as a potential model for future advisory 

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1 (A) focus on optimizing the collection and 

2 analysis of intelligence relating to strategic or 

3 transnational threats to the national security of 

4 the United States (including threats posed by 

5 disease outbreaks, pandemics, or other global 

6 health threats); and 

7 (B) are composed of elements of the intel8 ligence community and relevant elements of the 

9 Federal Government that are not elements of 

10 the intelligence community. 

11 (2) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the 

12 date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall 

13 submit to the congressional intelligence committees a 

14 report containing the findings of the study under 

15 paragraph (1). 

16 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

17 (1) CLIMATE SECURITY.—The term ‘‘climate 

18 security’’ means the effects of climate change on the 

19 following: 

20 (A) The national security of the United 

21 States. 

22 (B) Infrastructure that enhances the na23 tional security of the United States, including— 

24 (i) military installations, Department 

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1 nity facilities, and other physical facilities 

2 that contribute to or otherwise support op3 erations of the intelligence community or 

4 the Department of Defense; and 

5 (ii) critical infrastructure of the 

6 United States (as defined in subsection (e) 

7 of the Critical Infrastructures Protection 

8 Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c(e))). 

9 (C) Subnational, national, regional, and 

10 global politics, governance, and political sta11 bility. 

12 (D) The security of allies and partners of 

13 the United States. 

14 (E) Ongoing or potential political violence, 

15 including unrest, rioting, guerrilla warfare, in16 surgency, terrorism, rebellion, revolution, civil 

17 war, and interstate war. 

18 (2) CLIMATE INFLUENCE OF THE UNITED

19 STATES.—The term ‘‘climate influence of the United 

20 States’’ means the global influence and leadership of 

21 the United States with respect to the climate policies 

22 of other countries, international organizations, and 

23 transnational groups. 

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1 tions and warnings’’ means climate security develop2 ments with the potential to— 

3 (A) imminently and substantially alter the 

4 political stability or degree of human security in 

5 a state or region; or 

6 (B) threaten the United States, the mili7 tary, political, or economic interests of allies or 

8 coalition partners of the United States, or citi9 zens of the United States abroad. 

10 TITLE V—INSPECTORS GENERAL 

11 OF ELEMENTS OF THE INTEL12 LIGENCE COMMUNITY AND 

13 PROTECTION OF WHISTLE14 BLOWERS 

15 SEC. 501. INDEPENDENCE OF INSPECTORS GENERAL OF 

16 THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. 

17 (a) IN GENERAL.—The National Security Act of 

18 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) is amended by adding at 

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1 ‘‘TITLE XII—MATTERS REGARD2 ING INSPECTORS GENERAL 

3 OF ELEMENTS OF THE INTEL4 LIGENCE COMMUNITY 

5 ‘‘Subtitle A—Inspectors General 

6 ‘‘SEC. 1201. INDEPENDENCE OF INSPECTORS GENERAL. 

7 ‘‘(a) REMOVAL.—A covered Inspector General may be 

8 removed from office only by the President. The President 

9 may remove a covered Inspector General only for any of 

10 the following grounds: 

11 ‘‘(1) Permanent incapacity. 

12 ‘‘(2) Inefficiency. 

13 ‘‘(3) Neglect of duty. 

14 ‘‘(4) Malfeasance. 

15 ‘‘(5) Conviction of a felony or conduct involving 

16 moral turpitude. 

17 ‘‘(6) Substantial violations of laws, rules, or 

18 regulations. 

19 ‘‘(7) Gross mismanagement. 

20 ‘‘(8) Gross waste of funds. 

21 ‘‘(9) Abuse of authority. 

22 ‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.—A covered Inspector 

23 General may be placed on administrative leave only by the 

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1 General on administrative leave only for any of the 

2 grounds specified in subsection (a). 

3 ‘‘(c) NOTIFICATION.—The President may not remove 

4 a covered Inspector General under subsection (a) or place 

5 a covered Inspector General on administrative leave under 

6 subsection (b) unless— 

7 ‘‘(1) the President transmits in writing to the 

8 congressional intelligence committees a notification 

9 of such removal or placement, including a detailed 

10 explanation of the grounds for such removal or 

11 placement and the evidence supporting such 

12 grounds; and 

13 ‘‘(2) with respect to the removal of a covered 

14 Inspector General, a period of 30 days elapses fol15 lowing the date of such transmittal. 

16 ‘‘(d) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the date 

17 on which the President notifies a covered Inspector Gen18 eral of being removed under subsection (a) or placed on 

19 administrative leave under subsection (b), the office of 

20 that Inspector General shall submit to the congressional 

21 intelligence committees a report identifying— 

22 ‘‘(1) each complaint, investigation, inspection, 

23 audit, or other review or inquiry, including any in24 formation, allegation, or complaint reported to the 

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1 title 28, United States Code, that the Inspector Gen2 eral was working on as of the date of such removal 

3 or placement; and 

4 ‘‘(2) the status of each such complaint, inves5 tigation, inspection, audit, or other review or in6 quiry. 

7 ‘‘(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec8 tion shall be construed to prohibit a personnel action of 

9 a covered Inspector General otherwise authorized by law, 

10 other than transfer or removal. 

11 ‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

12 ‘‘(1) ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.—The term ‘ad13 ministrative leave’ includes any other type of paid or 

14 unpaid non-duty status. 

15 ‘‘(2) COVERED INSPECTOR GENERAL.—The 

16 term ‘covered Inspector General’ includes an indi17 vidual performing the functions and duties of a cov18 ered Inspector General in an acting capacity.’’. 

19 (b) DEFINITION.—Section 3 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 

20 3003) is amended by adding at the end the following new 

21 paragraph: 

22 ‘‘(8) The term ‘covered Inspector General’ 

23 means each Inspector General of an element of the 

24 intelligence community, including the Inspector Gen25 eral of the Intelligence Community.’’. 


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1 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of sections 

2 at the beginning of the National Security Act of 1947 is 

3 amended by adding after the items relating to title XI the 

4 end the following new items: 

‘‘TITLE XII—MATTERS REGARDING INSPECTORS GENERAL OF 

ELEMENTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 

‘‘SUBTITLE A—INSPECTORS GENERAL 

‘‘Sec. 1201. Independence of inspectors general.’’. 

5 SEC. 502. DESIGNATION OF ACTING INSPECTORS GENERAL 

6 OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IN 

7 CASES OF VACANCIES. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title XII of the National Security 

9 Act of 1947, as added by section 501, is amended by in10 serting after section 1201 the following new section: 

11 ‘‘SEC. 1203. DESIGNATION OF ACTING INSPECTORS GEN12 ERAL OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IN 

13 CASES OF VACANCIES. 

14 ‘‘(a) DESIGNATION.—If a covered Inspector General 

15 dies, resigns, is removed from office, or is otherwise unable 

16 to perform the functions and duties of the office of that 

17 Inspector General, the President may only direct an indi18 vidual specified in subsection (b) to perform the functions 

19 and duties of that Inspector General in an acting capacity 

20 until an individual is appointed by the President, by and 

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1 ‘‘(b) INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN SERVE IN ACTING CA2 PACITY.—The following individuals may serve as an acting 

3 Inspector General pursuant to subsection (a): 

4 ‘‘(1) The individual who holds the most senior 

5 position in that Office of the Inspector General as 

6 a career appointee in the Senior Intelligence Service, 

7 the Senior National Intelligence Service, or other ap8 plicable senior executive service. 

9 ‘‘(2) An individual who is serving as an inspec10 tor general of another department, agency, or other 

11 element of the Federal Government whose appoint12 ment to that position was made by the President, by 

13 and with the advice and consent of the Senate.’’. 

14 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

15 at the beginning of the National Security Act of 1947 is 

16 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

17 1201, as added by section 501, the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1203. Designation of acting Inspectors General of the intelligence community in cases of vacancies.’’. 

18 SEC. 503. AUTHORITY OF INSPECTORS GENERAL OF THE 

19 INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY TO DETERMINE 

20 MATTERS OF URGENT CONCERN. 

21 (a) DETERMINATION.— 

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1 amended by inserting after section 1203, as added 

2 by section 502, the following new section: 

3 ‘‘SEC. 1205. DETERMINATION OF MATTERS OF URGENT 

4 CONCERN. 

5 ‘‘(a) DETERMINATION.—Each covered Inspector 

6 General shall have sole authority to determine whether any 

7 complaint or information reported to the Inspector Gen8 eral is a matter of urgent concern. Such determination is 

9 final and conclusive. 

10 ‘‘(b) FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN ELECTIONS.—In 

11 addition to any other matter which is considered an urgent 

12 concern pursuant to section 103H(k)(5)(G), section 

13 17(d)(5)(G) of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 

14 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3517(d)(5)(G)), or other applicable pro15 vision of law, the term ‘urgent concern’ includes a serious 

16 or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of law or Executive 

17 order, or deficiency relating to foreign interference in elec18 tions in the United States.’’. 

19 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec20 tions at the beginning of the National Security Act 

21 of 1947 is amended by inserting after the item relat22 ing to section 1203, as added by section 502, the 

23 following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1205. Determination of matters of urgent concern.’’. 

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1 (1) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—Section 

2 103H(k)(5)(G) of the National Security Act of 1947 

3 (50 U.S.C. 3033(k)(5)(G)) is amended by striking 

4 ‘‘In this paragraph’’ and inserting ‘‘In accordance 

5 with section 1205, in this paragraph’’. 

6 (2) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.—Section 

7 17(d)(5)(G) of the Central Intelligence Agency Act 

8 of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3517(d)(5)(G)) is amended by 

9 striking ‘‘In this paragraph’’ and inserting ‘‘In ac10 cordance with section 1205 of the National Security 

11 Act of 1947, in this paragraph’’. 

12 (c) REPORTS ON UNRESOLVED DIFFERENCES.— 

13 Paragraph (3) of section 103H(k) of the National Security 

14 Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3033(k)) is amended by adding 

15 at the end the following new subparagraph: 

16 ‘‘(C) With respect to each report submitted pursuant 

17 to paragraph (A)(i), the Inspector General shall include 

18 in the report, at a minimum— 

19 ‘‘(i) a general description of the unresolved dif20 ferences, the particular duties or responsibilities of 

21 the Inspector General involved, and, if such dif22 ferences relate to a complaint or information under 

23 paragraph (5), a description of the complaint or in24 formation and the entities or individuals identified in 

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1 ‘‘(ii) to the extent such differences can be at2 tributed not only to the Director but also to any 

3 other official, department, agency, or office within 

4 the executive branch, or a component thereof, the ti5 tles of such official, department, agency, or office.’’. 

6 (d) CLARIFICATION OF ROLE OF DIRECTOR OF NA7 TIONAL INTELLIGENCE.—Section 102A(f)(1) of (50 

8 U.S.C. 3024(f)(1)) is amended— 

9 (1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as sub10 paragraph (C); and 

11 (2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the fol12 lowing new subparagraph: 

13 ‘‘(B) The authority of the Director of National 

14 Intelligence under subparagraph (A) includes coordi15 nating and supervising activities undertaken by ele16 ments of the intelligence community for the purpose 

17 of protecting the United States from any foreign in18 terference in elections in the United States.’’. 

19 SEC. 504. LIMITATION ON SHARING OF INTELLIGENCE 

20 COMMUNITY WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINTS 

21 WITH PERSONS NAMED IN SUCH COM22 PLAINTS. 

23 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title XII of the National Security 

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1 by inserting after section 1205, as added by section 503, 

2 the following new subtitle: 

3 ‘‘Subtitle B—Protections for 

4 Whistleblowers 

5 ‘‘SEC. 1223. LIMITATION ON SHARING OF INTELLIGENCE 

6 COMMUNITY WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINTS 

7 WITH PERSONS NAMED IN SUCH COM8 PLAINTS. 

9 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for any em10 ployee or officer of the Federal Government to knowingly 

11 and willfully share any whistleblower disclosure informa12 tion with any individual named as a subject of the whistle13 blower disclosure and alleged in the disclosure to have en14 gaged in misconduct, unless— 

15 ‘‘(1) the whistleblower consented, in writing, to 

16 such sharing before the sharing occurs; 

17 ‘‘(2) a covered Inspector General to whom such 

18 disclosure is made— 

19 ‘‘(A) determines that such sharing is un20 avoidable and necessary to advance an inves21 tigation, audit, inspection, or evaluation by the 

22 Inspector General; and 

23 ‘‘(B) notifies the whistleblower of such 

24 sharing before the sharing occurs; or 

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1 ‘‘(A) determines that such sharing is un2 avoidable and necessary to advance an inves3 tigation by the attorney; and 

4 ‘‘(B) notifies the whistleblower of such 

5 sharing before the sharing occurs. 

6 ‘‘(b) PENALTY.—Any person who violates subsection 

7 (a) shall be fined in accordance with title 18, United 

8 States Code, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or 

9 both. 

10 ‘‘(c) WHISTLEBLOWER DISCLOSURE INFORMATION

11 DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘whistleblower disclo12 sure information’ means, with respect to a whistleblower 

13 disclosure— 

14 ‘‘(1) the disclosure; 

15 ‘‘(2) confirmation of the fact of the existence of 

16 the disclosure; or 

17 ‘‘(3) the identity, or other identifying informa18 tion, of the whistleblower who made the disclosure.’’. 

19 (b) TECHNICAL AND CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 

20 (1) TRANSFER.—The National Security Act of 

21 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) is amended as fol22 lows: 

23 (A) Section 1104 is— 

24 (i) transferred to title XII of such 

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1 (ii) inserted before section 1223 of 

2 such Act, as added by this section; and 

3 (iii) redesignated as section 1221. 

4 (B) Section 1106 is— 

5 (i) amended by striking ‘‘section 

6 1104’’ each place it appears and inserting 

7 ‘‘section 1221’’; 

8 (ii) transferred to title XII of such 

9 Act, as added by section 501; 

10 (iii) inserted after section 1223 of 

11 such Act, as added by this section; and 

12 (iv) redesignated as section 1225. 

13 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of sec14 tions at the beginning of the National Security Act 

15 of 1947 is amended— 

16 (A) by striking the items relating to sec17 tion 1104 and section 1106; and 

18 (B) by inserting after the item relating to 

19 section 1205 the following new items: 

‘‘SUBTITLE B—PROTECTIONS FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS 

‘‘Sec. 1221. Prohibited personnel practices in the intelligence community. 

‘‘Sec. 1223. Limitation on sharing of intelligence community whistleblower complaints with persons named in such complaints. 

‘‘Sec. 1225. Inspector General external review panel.’’. 

20 (c) DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 

21 3003), as amended by section 501, is further amended by 

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1 ‘‘(9) The term ‘whistleblower’ means a person 

2 who makes a whistleblower disclosure. 

3 ‘‘(10) The term ‘whistleblower disclosure’ 

4 means a disclosure that is protected under section 

5 1221 of this Act or section 3001(j)(1) of the Intel6 ligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 

7 2004 (50 U.S.C. 3341(j)).’’. 

8 (d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 5331 of the 

9 Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intel10 ligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, 

11 and 2020 (division E of Public Law 116–92; 50 U.S.C. 

12 3033 note) is amended by striking ‘‘section 1104 of the 

13 National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3234)’’ and in14 serting ‘‘section 1221 of the National Security Act of 

15 1947’’. 

16 SEC. 505. DISCLOSURES TO CONGRESS. 

17 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title XII of the National Security 

18 Act of 1947, as added by section 501, is further amended 

19 by inserting after section 1225, as designated by section 

20 504(b), the following new section: 

21 ‘‘SEC. 1227. PROCEDURES REGARDING DISCLOSURES TO 

22 CONGRESS. 

23 ‘‘(a) GUIDANCE.— 

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1 whistleblower, the head of the relevant element of 

2 the intelligence community, acting through the cov3 ered Inspector General for that element, shall fur4 nish on a confidential basis to the whistleblower in5 formation regarding how the whistleblower may di6 rectly contact the congressional intelligence commit7 tees, in accordance with appropriate security prac8 tices, regarding a complaint or information of the 

9 whistleblower pursuant to section 103H(k)(5)(D) or 

10 other appropriate provision of law. 

11 ‘‘(2) NONDISCLOSURE.—Unless a whistleblower 

12 who makes a request under paragraph (1) provides 

13 prior consent, a covered Inspector General may not 

14 disclose to the head of the relevant element of the 

15 intelligence community— 

16 ‘‘(A) the identity of the whistleblower; or 

17 ‘‘(B) the element at which such whistle18 blower is employed, detailed, or assigned as a 

19 contractor employee. 

20 ‘‘(b) OVERSIGHT OF OBLIGATION.—If a covered In21 spector General determines that the head of an element 

22 of the intelligence community denied a request by a whis23 tleblower under subsection (a), directed the whistleblower 

24 not to contact the congressional intelligence committees, 

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1 such subsection, the covered Inspector General shall notify 

2 the congressional intelligence committees of such denial, 

3 direction, or unreasonable delay. 

4 ‘‘(c) PERMANENT SECURITY OFFICER.—The head of 

5 each element of the intelligence community may designate 

6 a permanent security officer in the element to provide to 

7 whistleblowers the information under subsection (a).’’. 

8 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

9 at the beginning of the National Security Act of 1947 is 

10 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

11 1225, as added by section 504(b), the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1227. Procedures regarding disclosures to Congress.’’. 

12 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 

13 103H(k)(5)(D)(i) of the National Security Act of 1947 

14 (50 U.S.C. 3033(k)(5)(D)(i)) is amended by adding at the 

15 end the following: ‘‘The employee may request information 

16 pursuant to section 1227 with respect to contacting such 

17 committees.’’. 

18 SEC. 506. PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCLOSURE OF WHIS19 TLEBLOWER IDENTITY AS REPRISAL 

20 AGAINST WHISTLEBLOWER DISCLOSURE BY 

21 EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS IN INTEL22 LIGENCE COMMUNITY. 

23 (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (3) of subsection (a) 

24 of section 1221 of the National Security Act of 1947, as 

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1 (1) in subparagraph (I), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and 

2 inserting a semicolon; 

3 (2) by redesignating subparagraph (J) as sub4 paragraph (K); and 

5 (3) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the fol6 lowing: 

7 ‘‘(J) a knowing and willful disclosure re8 vealing the identity or other personally identifi9 able information of such employee or such con10 tractor employee without the express written 

11 consent of such employee or such contractor 

12 employee or if the Inspector General determines 

13 it is necessary for the exclusive purpose of in14 vestigating a complaint or information received 

15 under section 8H of the Inspector General Act 

16 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 8H); or’’. 

17 (b) APPLICABILITY TO DETAILEES.—Such subsection 

18 is amended by adding at the end the following: 

19 ‘‘(5) EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘employee’, with 

20 respect to an agency or a covered intelligence com21 munity element, includes an individual who has been 

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1 (c) PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION FOR UNLAWFUL DIS2 CLOSURE OF WHISTLEBLOWER IDENTITY.—Subsection 

3 (d) of such section is amended to read as follows: 

4 ‘‘(d) ENFORCEMENT.— 

5 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro6 vided in this subsection, the President shall provide 

7 for the enforcement of this section. 

8 ‘‘(2) PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION FOR UNLAW9 FUL, WILLFUL DISCLOSURE OF WHISTLEBLOWER

10 IDENTITY.—In a case in which an employee of an 

11 agency, or other employee or officer of the Federal 

12 Government, takes a personnel action described in 

13 subsection (a)(3)(J) against an employee of a cov14 ered intelligence community element as a reprisal in 

15 violation of subsection (b) or in a case in which a 

16 contractor employee takes a personnel action de17 scribed in such subsection against another con18 tractor employee as a reprisal in violation of sub19 section (c), the employee or contractor employee 

20 against whom the personnel action was taken may 

21 bring a private action for all appropriate remedies, 

22 including injunctive relief and compensatory and pu23 nitive damages, against the employee or contractor 

24 employee who took the personnel action, in a Fed25 eral district court of competent jurisdiction within 


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1 180 days of when the employee or contractor em2 ployee first learned of or should have learned of the 

3 violation.’’. 

4 SEC. 507. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS AND COORDINATION 

5 WITH OTHER PROVISIONS OF LAW. 

6 (a) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—Paragraph (4) of 

7 section 103H(c) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 

8 U.S.C. 3033(c)) is amended to read as follows: 

9 ‘‘(4) The provisions of title XII shall apply to the In10 spector General with respect to the removal of the Inspec11 tor General, a vacancy in the position of the Inspector 

12 General, and any other matter relating to the Inspector 

13 General as specifically provided for in such title.’’. 

14 (b) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.—Paragraph 

15 (6) of section 17(b) of the Central Intelligence Agency Act 

16 of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3517(b)) is amended to read as fol17 lows: 

18 ‘‘(6) The provisions of title XII of the National Secu19 rity Act of 1947 shall apply to the Inspector General with 

20 respect to the removal of the Inspector General, a vacancy 

21 in the position of the Inspector General, and any other 

22 matter relating to the Inspector General as specifically 

23 provided for in such title.’’. 

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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—Title XII of the National Se2 curity Act of 1947, as added by section 501, is fur3 ther amended by inserting after section 1205, as 

4 added by section 503, the following new section: 

5 ‘‘SEC. 1207. COORDINATION WITH OTHER PROVISIONS OF 

6 LAW. 

7 ‘‘No provision of law that is inconsistent with any 

8 provision of this title shall be considered to supersede, re9 peal, or otherwise modify a provision of this title unless 

10 such other provision of law specifically cites a provision 

11 of this title in order to supersede, repeal, or otherwise 

12 modify that provision of this title.’’. 

13 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec14 tions at the beginning of the National Security Act 

15 of 1947 is amended by inserting after the item relat16 ing to section 1205, as added by section 503, the 

17 following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1207. Coordination with other provisions of law.’’. 

18 SEC. 508. SEVERABILITY. 

19 If any provision of this title, any amendment made 

20 by this title, or the application thereof to any person or 

21 circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder 

22 of the title, of any such amendments, and of the applica23 tion of such provisions to other persons and circumstances 

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1 TITLE VI—MATTERS RELATING 

2 TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES 

3 SEC. 601. MODIFICATIONS TO DUTIES OF DIRECTOR OF 

4 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 

5 (a) MODIFICATIONS.—Section 103E of the National 

6 Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3030) is amended to read 

7 as follows: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 103E. DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 

9 ‘‘(a) DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.— 

10 ‘‘(1) DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE AND TECH11 NOLOGY.—There is a Director of Science and Tech12 nology within the Office of the Director of National 

13 Intelligence who shall be appointed by and shall re14 port directly to the Director of National Intelligence. 

15 ‘‘(2) QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT.— 

16 The Director of Science and Technology shall be ap17 pointed from among Federal employees and shall 

18 have a professional background and experience ap19 propriate for the duties of the Director of Science 

20 and Technology. 

21 ‘‘(3) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Director of 

22 Science and Technology shall be responsible for— 

23 ‘‘(A) leading the strategic vision for and 

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1 ‘‘(B) providing science and technological 

2 expertise for intelligence analyses conducted by 

3 the intelligence community with respect to cov4 ered activities of foreign adversaries, as re5 quested. 

6 ‘‘(b) DUTIES.—The Director of Science and Tech7 nology shall— 

8 ‘‘(1) act as the primary advisor to the Director 

9 of National Intelligence regarding the science and 

10 technology of the intelligence community; 

11 ‘‘(2) chair the National Intelligence Science and 

12 Technology Committee under subsection (c); 

13 ‘‘(3) have access to any information relating to 

14 covered activities of the intelligence community; 

15 ‘‘(4) assist the Director of National Intelligence 

16 in developing elements of the budget of the Office of 

17 the Director of National Intelligence and the intel18 ligence community that relate to— 

19 ‘‘(A) covered activities of the intelligence 

20 community; or 

21 ‘‘(B) covered activities of foreign adver22 saries; 

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1 ‘‘(A) lead the development and oversee the 

2 planning of a long-term strategy for covered ac3 tivities of the intelligence community; and 

4 ‘‘(B) lead the prioritization of such activi5 ties; 

6 ‘‘(6) share knowledge to help ensure that the 

7 intelligence community has the scientific and techno8 logical expertise necessary to fulfill national and 

9 military intelligence priorities relating to the 

10 progress of foreign adversaries in covered activities; 

11 and 

12 ‘‘(7) perform other such duties as may be as13 signed by the Director of National Intelligence or 

14 specified by law. 

15 ‘‘(c) NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE AND TECH16 NOLOGY COMMITTEE.— 

17 ‘‘(1) COMMITTEE.—There is within the Office 

18 of the Director of Science and Technology a Na19 tional Intelligence Science and Technology Com20 mittee, which shall be chaired by the Director of 

21 Science and Technology. 

22 ‘‘(2) COMPOSITION.—The Committee shall be 

23 composed of one representative from each element of 

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1 ‘‘(A) the principal science and technology 

2 advisor to the head of the element; or 

3 ‘‘(B) an appropriate senior official des4 ignated by the head of the element. 

5 ‘‘(3) COORDINATION.—The Committee shall co6 ordinate the covered activities of the intelligence 

7 community, including by— 

8 ‘‘(A) identifying gaps in authorities or re9 sources that impact the ability of the intel10 ligence community to advance such activities; 

11 ‘‘(B) assisting the Director of Science and 

12 Technology in developing recommendations for 

13 the Director of National Intelligence on the 

14 prioritization of such activities; 

15 ‘‘(C) assisting the Director of Science and 

16 Technology in identifying changes to existing 

17 programs and resources necessary for the ad18 vancement of such activities; 

19 ‘‘(D) developing and maintaining a central20 ized process by which the Committee may— 

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1 ‘‘(ii) document any anticipated or 

2 planned projects, programs, or related ac3 tivities to address such needs; and 

4 ‘‘(iii) provide information and regular 

5 updates to other members of the Com6 mittee on ongoing covered activities of the 

7 intelligence community and related projects 

8 and programs (including information and 

9 updates on work sponsored at federally 

10 funded research and development centers), 

11 in order to avoid duplicative efforts among 

12 the elements of the intelligence community; 

13 and 

14 ‘‘(E) maintaining comprehensive and per15 sistent visibility into capabilities, assets, and 

16 talents in science, technology, or engineering 

17 that— 

18 ‘‘(i) are available to the intelligence 

19 community at federally funded research 

20 and development centers; and 

21 ‘‘(ii) may address the needs docu22 mented pursuant to subparagraph (D)(i). 

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1 telligence community on scientific and technological 

2 research and development achievements of foreign 

3 adversaries that affect the national security of the 

4 United States, including by— 

5 ‘‘(A) coordinating with (and deconflicting 

6 with as appropriate) the National Intelligence 

7 Officer for Science and Technology of the Office 

8 of the Director of National Intelligence with re9 spect to threats posed by such achievements; 

10 ‘‘(B) identifying investments and advance11 ments made by foreign adversaries in pursuit of 

12 such achievements and communicating the iden13 tifications to policymakers and the Armed 

14 Forces of the United States; 

15 ‘‘(C) providing intelligence to assist na16 tional and military customers in identifying and 

17 prioritizing technically and operationally fea18 sible applications of such achievements; 

19 ‘‘(D) advising policymakers and the Armed 

20 Forces of the United States on vulnerabilities of 

21 the United States that may be revealed, ex22 ploited, or otherwise implicated by foreign ad23 versaries through such achievements; and 

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1 nity, including the Open Source Enterprise and 

2 the Department of Defense Open Source Coun3 cil (or any related successor component) and 

4 other appropriate entities, to analyze and ex5 ploit open-source science and technology intel6 ligence. 

7 ‘‘(d) REPORTS.— 

8 ‘‘(1) SUBMISSION.—On an annual basis, the Di9 rector of National Intelligence shall submit to the 

10 congressional intelligence committees— 

11 ‘‘(A) a report on the efforts of the Na12 tional Intelligence Science and Technology 

13 Committee; and 

14 ‘‘(B) a report that— 

15 ‘‘(i) addresses the status of covered 

16 activities of the intelligence community, in17 cluding any advancements made with re18 spect to such activities; and 

19 ‘‘(ii) includes a submission from the 

20 head of each element of the intelligence 

21 community describing any covered activi22 ties sponsored by that element at a feder23 ally funded research and development cen24 ter during the most recent calendar year. 


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1 ‘‘(2) FORM.—The report under paragraph 

2 (1)(C) shall be submitted in classified form. 

3 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

4 ‘‘(1) COVERED ACTIVITIES.—The term ‘covered 

5 activities’ means scientific and technological research 

6 and development activities. 

7 ‘‘(2) OPEN-SOURCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

8 INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘open-source science and 

9 technology intelligence’ means information of intel10 ligence value regarding scientific and technological 

11 developments that appears in print or electronic 

12 form, including radio, television, newspapers, jour13 nals, the internet, commercial databases, videos, 

14 graphics, drawings, or any other publicly available 

15 source.’’. 

16 (b) INITIAL REPORTS.— 

17 (1) REPORT ON EFFORTS.—Not later than 1 

18 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

19 Director of National Intelligence shall submit the 

20 first report under section 103E(d)(1)(A) of the Na21 tional Security Act of 1947, as amended by sub22 section (a). 

23 (2) REPORTS ON ASSESSMENT AND COVERED

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1 tional Intelligence shall submit the first reports 

2 under subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 

3 103E(d)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947, as 

4 amended by subsection (a). 

5 SEC. 602. ANNUAL REPORTS ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOP6 MENT FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL 

7 ADVANCEMENTS. 

8 (a) REPORTS.—Title XI of the National Security Act 

9 of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3231 et seq.), as amended by section 

10 305, is amended by adding at the end the following new 

11 section: 

12 ‘‘SEC. 1110. ANNUAL REPORTS ON RESEARCH AND DEVEL13 OPMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNO14 LOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS. 

15 ‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—On an annual basis, the Direc16 tor of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate 

17 congressional committees a report on research and devel18 opment activities conducted by adversaries of the United 

19 States regarding scientific and technological advance20 ments. 

21 ‘‘(b) FORM.—The report under subsection (a) shall 

22 be submitted in classified form. 

23 ‘‘(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE

24 DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘appropriate congres25 sional committees’ means the following: 


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1 ‘‘(1) The Permanent Select Committee on Intel2 ligence and the Committee on Armed Services of the 

3 House of Representatives. 

4 ‘‘(2) The Select Committee on Intelligence and 

5 the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.’’. 

6 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

7 at the beginning of the National Security Act of 1947 is 

8 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

9 1109, as added by section 305, the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1110. Annual reports on research and development for scientific and 

technological advancements.’’. 

10 (c) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 

11 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of Na12 tional Intelligence shall submit the first report under sec13 tion 1109 of the National Security Act of 1947, as added 

14 by subsection (a). 

15 SEC. 603. IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION IN SCIENCE, 

16 TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ARTS, AND 

17 MATHEMATICS. 

18 (a) PROGRAM.—Subtitle A of title X of the National 

19 Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3191 et seq.) is amended 

20 by adding at the end the following new section: 

21 ‘‘SEC. 1003. IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION IN SCIENCE, 

22 TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ARTS, AND 

23 MATHEMATICS. 

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1 ‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en2 tity’ includes a department or agency of the Federal 

3 Government, a State, a political subdivision of a 

4 State, an individual, and a not-for-profit or other or5 ganization in the private sector. 

6 ‘‘(2) EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.—The term 

7 ‘educational institution’ includes any public or pri8 vate elementary school or secondary school, institu9 tion of higher education, college, university, or any 

10 other profit or nonprofit institution that is dedicated 

11 to improving science, technology, engineering, the 

12 arts, mathematics, business, law, medicine, or other 

13 fields that promote development and education relat14 ing to science, technology, engineering, the arts, 

15 mathematics, business, law, and medicine. 

16 ‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means each of 

17 the several States, the District of Columbia, the 

18 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth 

19 of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other ter20 ritory or possession of the United States. 

21 ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—Each head of an element of 

22 the intelligence community shall, on a continuing basis— 

23 ‘‘(1) identify actions that the head may take to 

24 improve education in the scientific, technology, engi25 neering, the arts, and mathematics (known as 


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1 ‘STEAM’) skills necessary to meet the long-term na2 tional security needs of the United States for per3 sonnel proficient in such skills; and 

4 ‘‘(2) establish and conduct programs to carry 

5 out such actions. 

6 ‘‘(c) AUTHORITIES.— 

7 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of an element of 

8 the intelligence community, in support of educational 

9 programs in science, technology, engineering, the 

10 arts, and mathematics, may— 

11 ‘‘(A) award grants to eligible entities; 

12 ‘‘(B) provide cash awards and other items 

13 to eligible entities; 

14 ‘‘(C) accept voluntary services from eligible 

15 entities; 

16 ‘‘(D) support national competition judging, 

17 other educational event activities, and associ18 ated award ceremonies in connection with such 

19 educational programs; and 

20 ‘‘(E) enter into one or more education 

21 partnership agreements with educational insti22 tutions in the United States for the purpose of 

23 encouraging and enhancing study in science, 

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1 ‘‘(2) EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP AGREE2 MENTS.— 

3 ‘‘(A) NATURE OF ASSISTANCE PRO4 VIDED.—Under an education partnership agree5 ment entered into with an educational institu6 tion under paragraph (1)(E), the head of an 

7 element of the intelligence community may pro8 vide assistance to the educational institution 

9 by— 

10 ‘‘(i) loaning equipment to the edu11 cational institution for any purpose and 

12 duration in support of such agreement that 

13 the head considers appropriate; 

14 ‘‘(ii) making personnel available to 

15 teach science courses or to assist in the de16 velopment of science courses and materials 

17 for the educational institution; 

18 ‘‘(iii) providing sabbatical opportuni19 ties for faculty and internship opportuni20 ties for students; 

21 ‘‘(iv) involving faculty and students of 

22 the educational institution in projects of 

23 that element of the intelligence community, 

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1 ‘‘(v) cooperating with the educational 

2 institution in developing a program under 

3 which students may be given academic 

4 credit for work on projects of that element 

5 of the intelligence community, including re6 search and technology transfer for transi7 tion projects; and 

8 ‘‘(vi) providing academic and career 

9 advice and assistance to students of the 

10 educational institution. 

11 ‘‘(B) PRIORITIES.—In entering into edu12 cation partnership agreements under paragraph 

13 (1)(E), the head of an element of the intel14 ligence community shall prioritize entering into 

15 education partnership agreements with the fol16 lowing: 

17 ‘‘(i) Historically Black colleges and 

18 universities and other minority-serving in19 stitutions, as described in section 371(a) of 

20 the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 

21 U.S.C. 1067q(a)). 

22 ‘‘(ii) Educational institutions serving 

23 women, members of minority groups, and 

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1 engineering, arts, and mathematics profes2 sions in disproportionately low numbers. 

3 ‘‘(d) DESIGNATION OF ADVISOR.—Each head of an 

4 element of the intelligence community shall designate one 

5 or more individuals within that element to advise and as6 sist the head regarding matters relating to science, tech7 nology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics education 

8 and training. 

9 ‘‘(e) COORDINATION.—Each head of an element of 

10 the intelligence community (other than the Director of Na11 tional Intelligence) shall carry out this section in coordina12 tion with the Director of National Intelligence.’’. 

13 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

14 at the beginning of the National Security Act is amended 

15 by inserting after the item relating to section 1002 the 

16 following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1003. Improvement of education in science, technology, engineering, arts, 

and mathematics.’’. 

17 SEC. 604. QUARTERLY REPORTS ON CYBER INTELLIGENCE, 

18 SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AC19 TIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. 

20 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title V of the National Security 

21 Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.), is amended by in22 serting after section 503 the following new section: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 503A. QUARTERLY REPORTS ON CYBER INTEL2 LIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAIS3 SANCE ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 

4 DEFENSE. 

5 ‘‘On a quarterly basis, the Secretary of Defense shall 

6 submit to the congressional intelligence committees and 

7 the congressional defense committees (as defined in sec8 tion 101(a) of title 10, United States Code) a report on 

9 the cyber intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ac10 tivities of the Department of Defense, and any other mat11 ters the Secretary determines appropriate, that occurred 

12 during the quarter preceding the date of the submission 

13 of the report.’’. 

14 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

15 at the beginning of such Act is amended by inserting after 

16 the item relating to section 503 the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 503A. Quarterly reports on cyber intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance activities of the Department of Defense.’’. 

17 SEC. 605. PROCESS FOR IDENTIFYING CYBER THREAT IN18 TELLIGENCE NEEDS AND PRIORITIES. 

19 (a) SOLICITATION AND COMPILATION OF INFORMA20 TION.— 

21 (1) PROCESS.—Not later than 180 days after 

22 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 

23 of National Intelligence, in coordination with the 

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1 Agencies the Director determines appropriate, shall 

2 establish a formal process to solicit and compile in3 formation needs of covered entities to improve the 

4 defenses of such entities against foreign cybersecu5 rity threats. 

6 (2) RECURRENT INPUT.—The Director shall 

7 ensure that the information compiled under para8 graph (1) is current by continuing to solicit and 

9 compile information under such paragraph as fol10 lows: 

11 (A) By not later than 30 days after the 

12 date on which the Director first establishes the 

13 process under such paragraph. 

14 (B) On a biennial basis thereafter. 

15 (b) EVALUATION.—Using the information solicited 

16 and compiled under subsection (a), and using any other 

17 intelligence information and processes, the Director, in co18 ordination with the Secretary, shall conduct an evaluation 

19 with respect to the intelligence needs relating to foreign 

20 cybersecurity threats. Such evaluation shall— 

21 (1) identify common technologies or inter22 dependencies that are likely to be targeted by na23 tion-state adversaries; 

24 (2) identify foreign intelligence gaps regarding 

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1 (3) identify and execute methods of empowering 

2 Sector-Specific Agencies to— 

3 (A) identify specific critical lines of busi4 nesses, technologies, and processes within their 

5 respective sectors; and 

6 (B) coordinate directly with the intelligence 

7 community regarding sector-specific cybersecu8 rity threat; and 

9 (4) consider whether to enhance or adjust na10 tional intelligence collection and analysis priorities. 

11 (c) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than 90 days after 

12 the date on which the Director conducts the evaluation 

13 under subsection (b), and annually thereafter, the Direc14 tor and the Secretary shall jointly submit to the appro15 priate congressional committees a report that— 

16 (1) assesses how the cybersecurity threat infor17 mation obtained from covered entities is shaping in18 telligence collection and dissemination activities; 

19 (2) evaluates the success of the intelligence 

20 community in sharing relevant, actionable cybersecu21 rity threat intelligence with such entities; and 

22 (3) addresses any legislative or policy changes 

23 necessary to enhance the cybersecurity of such enti24 ties. 

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1 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT2 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com3 mittees’’ means the following: 

4 (A) The congressional intelligence commit5 tees. 

6 (B) The Committee on Homeland Security 

7 and the Committee on Armed Services of the 

8 House of Representatives. 

9 (C) The Committee on Homeland Security 

10 and Governmental Affairs and the Committee 

11 on Armed Services of the Senate. 

12 (2) COVERED ENTITIES.—The term ‘‘covered 

13 entities’’ means owners and operators of critical in14 frastructure. 

15 (3) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.—The term 

16 ‘‘critical infrastructure’’ has the meaning given that 

17 term in section 1016(e) of the USA PATRIOT Act 

18 (42 U.S.C. 5195c(e)). 

19 (4) CYBERSECURITY THREAT.—The term ‘‘cy20 bersecurity threat’’ has the meaning given that term 

21 in section 2201(3) of the Homeland Security Act of 

22 2002 (6 U.S.C. 651(3)). 

23 (5) SECTOR-SPECIFIC AGENCY.—The term 

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1 that term in section 2201(5) of the Homeland Secu2 rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 651(5)). 

3 SEC. 606. REVIEWS OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CYBER 

4 THREAT SHARING POSTURE AND NATIONAL 

5 SECURITY DIRECTIVE 42. 

6 (a) REVIEW OF CYBERSECURITY THREATS.— 

7 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of National In8 telligence, after coordinating with the Secretary of 

9 Homeland Security, shall conduct a review of appli10 cable laws, policies, procedures, and resources of the 

11 intelligence community that apply to the intelligence 

12 community’s understanding of cybersecurity threats 

13 to covered entities. Such review shall address the 

14 ability of the intelligence community to share cyber 

15 threat information with the Federal departments 

16 and agencies responsible for providing warning and 

17 indicators to covered entities to enable them to de18 fend against such threats. 

19 (2) CONTENTS OF REVIEW.—The review re20 quired under subsection (a) shall include a consider21 ation of each of the following: 

22 (A) The capabilities and limitations of the 

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1 (B) The ability of the intelligence commu2 nity to share cyber threat intelligence informa3 tion with covered entities. 

4 (C) Procedures for the sanitization and de5 classification of intelligence, including the effi6 ciency of such procedures. 

7 (D) Which criteria and procedures should 

8 be implemented to identify intelligence commu9 nity products for expedited sharing. 

10 (E) Current and projected national intel11 ligence requirements that relate to cybersecurity 

12 threats to covered entities. 

13 (F) Budgetary changes to ensure that the 

14 intelligence community is postured to provide 

15 adequate indicators and warning of cybersecu16 rity threats to covered entities. 

17 (3) REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 

18 (A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than Decem19 ber 31, 2021, the Director of National Intel20 ligence shall submit to the appropriate congres21 sional committees a report on the review re22 quired under this subsection. 

23 (B) FORM OF REPORT.—The report re24 quired under subparagraph (A) may be sub25 mitted in classified or unclassified form. If such 


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1 report is submitted in unclassified form, it may 

2 include a classified annex. 

3 (b) REVIEW OF NATIONAL SECURITY DIRECTIVE

4 42.—Not later than December 31, 2021, the Secretary of 

5 Defense and the Director of National Intelligence shall 

6 submit to the appropriate congressional committees a re7 port containing the results of a review of the implementa8 tion and effectiveness of National Security Directive 42, 

9 with a specific focus on the role of the National Manager 

10 for National Security Systems. Such review shall in11 clude— 

12 (1) an appraisal of the National Manager’s au13 thorities and resources; 

14 (2) consideration of the definition of ‘‘national 

15 security system’’; and 

16 (3) recommendations to improve the cybersecu17 rity posture of national security assets, including 

18 such assets controlled or accessed by covered enti19 ties. 

20 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

21 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT22 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com23 mittees’’ means— 


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1 (A) the Select Committee on Intelligence 

2 and the Committee on Homeland Security and 

3 Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and 

4 (B) the Permanent Select Committee on 

5 Intelligence and the Committee on Homeland 

6 Security of the House of Representatives. 

7 (2) COVERED ENTITIES.—The term ‘‘covered 

8 entities’’ means— 

9 (A) owners and operators of critical infra10 structure; and 

11 (B) academic institutions in the United 

12 States, corporations incorporated in the United 

13 States, and corporations operating inside the 

14 United States. 

15 SEC. 607. FEASIBILITY STUDY ON CYBERSECURITY POLI16 CIES OF CONTRACTORS OF OWNER OR OPER17 ATORS OF NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEMS . 

18 (a) STUDY.—Not later than one year after the date 

19 of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National 

20 Security Agency shall conduct a feasibility study with re21 spect to requiring contractors (including subcontractors) 

22 of departments or agencies of the Federal Government 

23 that own or operate national security systems to imple24 ment mandatory cybersecurity policies or defensive meas25 ures. The study shall include— 


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1 (1) the estimated cost to the Federal Govern2 ment of deploying such mandatory cybersecurity 

3 policies or defensive measures; 

4 (2) whether there are sufficient legal and policy 

5 authorities in place to implement such mandatory 

6 cybersecurity policies or defensive measures; 

7 (3) a description of enforcement mechanisms 

8 for such mandatory cybersecurity policies or defen9 sive measures; and 

10 (4) the timeline for implementation of such 

11 mandatory cybersecurity policies or defensive meas12 ures. 

13 (b) BRIEFINGS.—Not later than 90 days after the 

14 date of the enactment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter 

15 during the one-year period following the date of such en16 actment, the Director shall provide to the congressional 

17 intelligence committees and the Committees on Armed 

18 Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate 

19 a briefing on the study. 

20 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

21 (1) DEFENSIVE MEASURES.—The term ‘‘defen22 sive measures’’ has the meaning given that term in 

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1 (2) NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM.—The term 

2 ‘‘national security system’’ has the meaning given 

3 that term in section 3542 of title 44, United States 

4 Code. 

5 SEC. 608. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DE6 VELOPMENT. 

7 (a) FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.— 

8 (1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 

9 (A) All elements of the intelligence commu10 nity employ artificial intelligence in some form, 

11 and the artificial intelligence research and de12 velopment efforts of many of the elements over13 lap; 

14 (B) the elements do not adequately share 

15 resources, expertise, and data and often fail to 

16 make even closely related systems interoperate; 

17 (C) siloed artificial intelligence research 

18 and development inefficiently splits resources 

19 across the intelligence community leading to du20 plicative and less effective capabilities; 

21 (D) developing state-of-the-art artificial in22 telligence capabilities requires large quantities 

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1 (E) research and development is the larg2 est cost driver for artificial intelligence capabili3 ties but once developed, artificial intelligence 

4 capabilities are generally inexpensive to provide 

5 to more users; 

6 (F) the Director of National Intelligence 

7 has addressed similar challenges in the realm of 

8 information technology through the IC IT En9 terprise initiative; 

10 (G) the IC IT Enterprise initiative has 

11 successfully consolidated capabilities like cloud 

12 computing and identity management into intel13 ligence community-wide capabilities, primarily 

14 by selecting executive agents from within the 

15 intelligence community to take the lead in their 

16 respective areas of interest and excellence; and 

17 (H) the Augmenting Intelligence through 

18 Machines initiative of the Office of the Director 

19 of National Intelligence has centralized stra20 tegic thinking in its strategy for augmenting in21 telligence using machines but has not suffi22 ciently coordinated the artificial intelligence and 

23 machine learning research programs of the in24 telligence community to encourage efficiency 

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1 (2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 

2 Congress that— 

3 (A) consolidating the resources of the intel4 ligence community regarding artificial intel5 ligence research and development to carry out 

6 intelligence community-wide efforts would yield 

7 economies of scale and improve mission out8 comes; and 

9 (B) the Augmenting Intelligence through 

10 Machines initiative of the Office of the Director 

11 of National Intelligence should lead such ef12 forts. 

13 (b) AI PROJECT IDENTIFICATION.—Not later than 

14 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

15 Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the 

16 Chief Information Officer of the Intelligence Community, 

17 the Chief Data Officer of the Intelligence Community, the 

18 Director of Science and Technology of the Office of the 

19 Director of National Intelligence, and the heads of ele20 ments of the intelligence community the Director deter21 mines appropriate, shall identify research areas, applica22 tions, supporting technologies, and infrastructure regard23 ing artificial intelligence that— 

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1 sis in areas that are already being worked on by 

2 multiple elements; 

3 (2) can be either assigned to an executive agent 

4 or addressed by a joint research and development ef5 fort; and 

6 (3) have the potential to significantly impact in7 telligence outcomes or the efficiency of the intel8 ligence community. 

9 (c) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.— 

10 (1) DEVELOPMENT.—With respect to each re11 search area, application, supporting technology, or 

12 infrastructure identified under subsection (b), the 

13 Director shall develop an implementation plan to 

14 consolidate research and development, program man15 agement, acquisition, and sustainment into an intel16 ligence community-wide effort that results in intel17 ligence community-wide capabilities. Each such plan 

18 shall include— 

19 (A) an outline of the most significant bar20 riers to creating effective, intelligence commu21 nity-wide artificial intelligence capabilities; and 

22 (B) recommendations to overcome such 

23 barriers. 

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1 search area, application, supporting technology, or 

2 infrastructure under subsection (b), the Director 

3 shall submit to the congressional intelligence com4 mittees the plan under paragraph (1). 

5 SEC. 609. SEEDLING INVESTMENT IN NEXT-GENERATION 

6 MICROELECTRONICS IN SUPPORT OF ARTIFI7 CIAL INTELLIGENCE. 

8 (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 

9 (1) developing faster, more energy efficient, and 

10 more resilient computing is important to the future 

11 of the national security of the United States and the 

12 leadership by the United States in artificial intel13 ligence; and 

14 (2) multidisciplinary teams co-designing micro15 electronics for artificial intelligence will lead to un16 precedented capabilities that will help ensure that 

17 the United States maintains its superiority in this 

18 worldwide competition for economic and national se19 curity. 

20 (b) AWARDS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.— 

21 The Director of National Intelligence, acting through the 

22 Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects 

23 Activity, shall award contracts or grants, or enter into 

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1 (c) USE OF FUNDS.—The Director shall award con2 tracts or grants to, or enter into transactions other than 

3 contracts with, entities under subsection (b) to carry out 

4 any of the following: 

5 (1) Advanced engineering and applied research 

6 into novel computing models, materials, devices, ar7 chitectures, or algorithms to enable the advancement 

8 of artificial intelligence and machine learning. 

9 (2) Research efforts to— 

10 (A) overcome challenges with engineering 

11 and applied research of microelectronics, includ12 ing with respect to the physical limits on tran13 sistors, electrical interconnects, and memory 

14 elements; or 

15 (B) promote long-term advancements in 

16 computing technologies, including by fostering a 

17 unified and multidisciplinary approach encom18 passing research and development into algo19 rithm design, computing architectures, micro20 electronic devices and circuits, and the chem21 istry and physics of new materials. 

22 (3) Any other activity the Director determines 

23 would promote the development of microelectronics 

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1 (d) AWARD AMOUNTS.—In awarding contracts or 

2 grants, or entering into transactions other than contracts, 

3 under subsection (b), the Director may award not more 

4 than a total of $15,000,000. 

5 TITLE VII—PROTECTION OF 

6 ELECTIONS FROM FOREIGN 

7 INFLUENCE 

8 Subtitle A—Foreign Influence 

9 Reporting in Elections 

10 SEC. 701. FEDERAL CAMPAIGN REPORTING OF FOREIGN 

11 CONTACTS. 

12 (a) INITIAL NOTICE.— 

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 304 of the Federal 

14 Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30104) 

15 is amended by adding at the end the following new 

16 subsection: 

17 ‘‘(j) DISCLOSURE OF REPORTABLE FOREIGN CON18 TACTS.— 

19 ‘‘(1) COMMITTEE OBLIGATION TO NOTIFY.— 

20 Not later than 1 week after a reportable foreign con21 tact, each political committee shall notify the Fed22 eral Bureau of Investigation and the Commission of 

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1 vestigation, not later than 1 week after receiving a 

2 notification from a political committee under this 

3 paragraph, shall submit to the political committee, 

4 the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of 

5 the House of Representatives, and the Select Com6 mittee on Intelligence of the Senate written or elec7 tronic confirmation of receipt of the notification. 

8 ‘‘(2) INDIVIDUAL OBLIGATION TO NOTIFY.— 

9 Not later than 3 days after a reportable foreign con10 tact— 

11 ‘‘(A) each candidate and each immediate 

12 family member of a candidate shall notify the 

13 treasurer or other designated official of the 

14 principal campaign committee of such candidate 

15 of the reportable foreign contact and provide a 

16 summary of the circumstances with respect to 

17 such reportable foreign contact; and 

18 ‘‘(B) each official, employee, or agent of a 

19 political committee shall notify the treasurer or 

20 other designated official of the committee of the 

21 reportable foreign contact and provide a sum22 mary of the circumstances with respect to such 

23 reportable foreign contact. 

24 ‘‘(3) REPORTABLE FOREIGN CONTACT.—In this 

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1 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘reportable 

2 foreign contact’ means any direct or indirect 

3 contact or communication that— 

4 ‘‘(i) is between— 

5 ‘‘(I) a candidate, an immediate 

6 family member of the candidate, a po7 litical committee, or any official, em8 ployee, or agent of such committee; 

9 and 

10 ‘‘(II) an individual that the per11 son described in subclause (I) knows, 

12 has reason to know, or reasonably be13 lieves is a covered foreign national; 

14 and 

15 ‘‘(ii) the person described in clause 

16 (i)(I) knows, has reason to know, or rea17 sonably believes involves— 

18 ‘‘(I) an offer or other proposal 

19 for a contribution, donation, expendi20 ture, disbursement, or solicitation de21 scribed in section 319; or 

22 ‘‘(II) coordination or collabora23 tion with, an offer or provision of in24 formation or services to or from, or 

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1 a covered foreign national in connec2 tion with an election. 

3 ‘‘(B) EXCEPTIONS.— 

4 ‘‘(i) CONTACTS IN OFFICIAL CAPACITY

5 AS ELECTED OFFICIAL.—The term ‘report6 able foreign contact’ shall not include any 

7 contact or communication with a covered 

8 foreign national by an elected official or an 

9 employee of an elected official solely in an 

10 official capacity as such an official or em11 ployee. 

12 ‘‘(ii) CONTACTS FOR PURPOSES OF

13 ENABLING OBSERVATION OF ELECTIONS

14 BY INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS.—The 

15 term ‘reportable foreign contact’ shall not 

16 include any contact or communication with 

17 a covered foreign national by any person 

18 which is made for purposes of enabling the 

19 observation of elections in the United 

20 States by a foreign national or the obser21 vation of elections outside of the United 

22 States by a candidate, political committee, 

23 or any official, employee, or agent of such 

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1 ‘‘(iii) EXCEPTIONS NOT APPLICABLE

2 IF CONTACTS OR COMMUNICATIONS IN3 VOLVE PROHIBITED DISBURSEMENTS.—A 

4 contact or communication by an elected of5 ficial or an employee of an elected official 

6 shall not be considered to be made solely 

7 in an official capacity for purposes of 

8 clause (i), and a contact or communication 

9 shall not be considered to be made for pur10 poses of enabling the observation of elec11 tions for purposes of clause (ii), if the con12 tact or communication involves a contribu13 tion, donation, expenditure, disbursement, 

14 or solicitation described in section 319. 

15 ‘‘(C) COVERED FOREIGN NATIONAL DE16 FINED.— 

17 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—In this paragraph, 

18 the term ‘covered foreign national’ 

19 means— 

20 ‘‘(I) a foreign principal (as de21 fined in section 1(b) of the Foreign 

22 Agents Registration Act of 1938 (22 

23 U.S.C. 611(b))) that is a government 

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1 ‘‘(II) any person who acts as an 

2 agent, representative, employee, or 

3 servant, or any person who acts in 

4 any other capacity at the order, re5 quest, or under the direction or con6 trol, of a foreign principal described in 

7 subclause (I) or of a person any of 

8 whose activities are directly or indi9 rectly supervised, directed, controlled, 

10 financed, or subsidized in whole or in 

11 major part by a foreign principal de12 scribed in subclause (I); or 

13 ‘‘(III) any person included in the 

14 list of specially designated nationals 

15 and blocked persons maintained by 

16 the Office of Foreign Assets Control 

17 of the Department of the Treasury 

18 pursuant to authorities relating to the 

19 imposition of sanctions relating to the 

20 conduct of a foreign principal de21 scribed in subclause (I). 

22 ‘‘(ii) CLARIFICATION REGARDING AP23 PLICATION TO CITIZENS OF THE UNITED

24 STATES.—In the case of a citizen of the 

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1 applies only to the extent that the person 

2 involved acts within the scope of that per3 son’s status as the agent of a foreign prin4 cipal described in subclause (I) of clause 

5 (i). 

6 ‘‘(4) IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER.—In this 

7 subsection, the term ‘immediate family member’ 

8 means, with respect to a candidate, a parent, parent9 in-law, spouse, adult child, or sibling.’’. 

10 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 

11 by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to report12 able foreign contacts which occur on or after the 

13 date of the enactment of this Act. 

14 (b) INFORMATION INCLUDED ON REPORT.— 

15 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 304(b) of such Act 

16 (52 U.S.C. 30104(b)) is amended— 

17 (A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para18 graph (7); 

19 (B) by striking the period at the end of 

20 paragraph (8) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

21 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

22 paragraph: 

23 ‘‘(9) for any reportable foreign contact (as de24 fined in subsection (j)(3))— 


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1 ‘‘(A) the date, time, and location of the 

2 contact; 

3 ‘‘(B) the date and time of when a des4 ignated official of the committee was notified of 

5 the contact; 

6 ‘‘(C) the identity of individuals involved; 

7 and 

8 ‘‘(D) a description of the contact, including 

9 the nature of any contribution, donation, ex10 penditure, disbursement, or solicitation involved 

11 and the nature of any activity described in sub12 section (j)(3)(A)(ii)(II) involved.’’. 

13 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 

14 by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to reports 

15 filed on or after the expiration of the 60-day period 

16 which begins on the date of the enactment of this 

17 Act. 

18 SEC. 702. FEDERAL CAMPAIGN FOREIGN CONTACT RE19 PORTING COMPLIANCE SYSTEM. 

20 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 302 of the Federal Elec21 tion Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30102) is amended 

22 by adding at the end the following new subsection: 

23 ‘‘(j) REPORTABLE FOREIGN CONTACTS COMPLIANCE

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1 ‘‘(1) REPORTING.—Each political committee 

2 shall establish a policy that requires all officials, em3 ployees, and agents of such committee to notify the 

4 treasurer or other appropriate designated official of 

5 the committee of any reportable foreign contact (as 

6 defined in section 304(j)) not later than 3 days after 

7 such contact was made. 

8 ‘‘(2) RETENTION AND PRESERVATION OF

9 RECORDS.—Each political committee shall establish 

10 a policy that provides for the retention and preserva11 tion of records and information related to reportable 

12 foreign contacts (as so defined) for a period of not 

13 less than 3 years. 

14 ‘‘(3) CERTIFICATION.— 

15 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Upon filing its state16 ment of organization under section 303(a), and 

17 with each report filed under section 304(a), the 

18 treasurer of each political committee (other 

19 than an authorized committee) shall certify 

20 that— 

21 ‘‘(i) the committee has in place poli22 cies that meet the requirements of para23 graphs (1) and (2); 


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1 ‘‘(ii) the committee has designated an 

2 official to monitor compliance with such 

3 policies; and 

4 ‘‘(iii) not later than 1 week after the 

5 beginning of any formal or informal affili6 ation with the committee, all officials, em7 ployees, and agents of such committee 

8 will— 

9 ‘‘(I) receive notice of such poli10 cies; 

11 ‘‘(II) be informed of the prohibi12 tions under section 319; and 

13 ‘‘(III) sign a certification affirm14 ing their understanding of such poli15 cies and prohibitions. 

16 ‘‘(B) AUTHORIZED COMMITTEES.—With 

17 respect to an authorized committee, the can18 didate shall make the certification required 

19 under subparagraph (A).’’. 

20 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 

21 (1) IN GENERAL.—The amendment made by 

22 subsection (a) shall apply with respect to political 

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1 paign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30103(a)) on or after 

2 the date of the enactment of this Act. 

3 (2) TRANSITION RULE FOR EXISTING COMMIT4 TEES.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the 

5 enactment of this Act, each political committee 

6 under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 

7 shall file a certification with the Federal Election 

8 Commission that the committee is in compliance 

9 with the requirements of section 302(j) of such Act 

10 (as added by subsection (a)). 

11 SEC. 703. CRIMINAL PENALTIES. 

12 Section 309(d)(1) of the Federal Election Campaign 

13 Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30109(d)(1)) is amended by add14 ing at the end the following new subparagraphs: 

15 ‘‘(E) Any person who knowingly and willfully com16 mits a violation of subsection (j) or (b)(9) of section 304 

17 or section 302(j) shall be fined not more than $500,000, 

18 imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both. 

19 ‘‘(F) Any person who knowingly and willfully conceals 

20 or destroys any materials relating to a reportable foreign 

21 contact (as defined in section 304(j)) shall be fined not 

22 more than $1,000,000, imprisoned not more than 5 years, 

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1 SEC. 704. REPORT TO CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE 

2 COMMITTEES. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 

4 date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 

5 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall 

6 submit to the congressional intelligence committees a re7 port relating to notifications received by the Federal Bu8 reau of Investigation under section 304(j)(1) of the Fed9 eral Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as added by section 

10 701(a) of this Act). 

11 (b) ELEMENTS.—Each report under subsection (a) 

12 shall include, at a minimum, the following with respect 

13 to notifications described in subsection (a): 

14 (1) The number of such notifications received 

15 from political committees during the year covered by 

16 the report. 

17 (2) A description of protocols and procedures 

18 developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation re19 lating to receipt and maintenance of records relating 

20 to such notifications. 

21 (3) With respect to such notifications received 

22 during the year covered by the report, a description 

23 of any subsequent actions taken by the Director re24 sulting from the receipt of such notifications. 

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1 ligence committees’’ has the meaning given that term in 

2 section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 

3 3003). 

4 SEC. 705. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 

5 Nothing in this subtitle or the amendments made by 

6 this subtitle shall be construed— 

7 (1) to impede legitimate journalistic activities; 

8 or 

9 (2) to impose any additional limitation on the 

10 right to express political views or to participate in 

11 public discourse of any individual who— 

12 (A) resides in the United States; 

13 (B) is not a citizen of the United States or 

14 a national of the United States, as defined in 

15 section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Na16 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)); and 

17 (C) is not lawfully admitted for permanent 

18 residence, as defined by section 101(a)(20) of 

19 the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 

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1 Subtitle B—Foreign Influence 

2 Reporting in Elections 

3 SEC. 711. CLARIFICATION OF APPLICATION OF FOREIGN 

4 MONEY BAN. 

5 (a) CLARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF PROVISION

6 OF CERTAIN INFORMATION AS CONTRIBUTION OR DONA7 TION OF A THING OF VALUE.—Section 319 of the Federal 

8 Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30121) is 

9 amended by adding at the end the following new sub10 section: 

11 ‘‘(c) CLARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF PROVISION

12 OF CERTAIN INFORMATION AS CONTRIBUTION OR DONA13 TION OF A THING OF VALUE.—For purposes of this sec14 tion, a ‘contribution or donation of money or other thing 

15 of value’ includes the provision of opposition research, 

16 polling, or other non-public information relating to a can17 didate for election for a Federal, State, or local office for 

18 the purpose of influencing the election, regardless of 

19 whether such research, polling, or information has mone20 tary value, except that nothing in this subsection shall be 

21 construed to treat the mere provision of an opinion about 

22 a candidate as a thing of value for purposes of this sec23 tion.’’. 

24 (b) CLARIFICATION OF APPLICATION OF FOREIGN

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1 OF THINGS OF VALUE AND TO ALL SOLICITATIONS OF

2 CONTRIBUTIONS AND DONATIONS OF THINGS OF

3 VALUE.—Section 319(a) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 

4 30121(a)) is amended— 

5 (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ‘‘promise 

6 to make a contribution or donation’’ and inserting 

7 ‘‘promise to make such a contribution or donation’’; 

8 (2) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘donation’’ 

9 and inserting ‘‘donation of money or other thing of 

10 value, or to make an express or implied promise to 

11 make such a contribution or donation,’’; and 

12 (3) by amending paragraph (2) to read as fol13 lows: 

14 ‘‘(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive (di15 rectly or indirectly) a contribution or donation de16 scribed in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph 

17 (1), or to solicit, accept, or receive (directly or indi18 rectly) an express or implied promise to make such 

19 a contribution or donation, from a foreign na20 tional.’’. 

21 (c) ENHANCED PENALTY FOR CERTAIN VIOLA22 TIONS.— 

23 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 309(d)(1) of such 

24 Act (52 U.S.C. 30109(d)(1)), as amended by section 


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1 703, is further amended by adding at the end the 

2 following new subparagraph: 

3 ‘‘(G)(i) Any person who knowingly and willfully com4 mits a violation of section 319 which involves a foreign 

5 national which is a government of a foreign country or 

6 a foreign political party, or which involves a thing of value 

7 consisting of the provision of opposition research, polling, 

8 or other non-public information relating to a candidate for 

9 election for a Federal, State, or local office for the purpose 

10 of influencing the election, shall be fined under title 18, 

11 United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than 5 

12 years, or both. 

13 ‘‘(ii) In clause (i), each of the terms ‘government of 

14 a foreign country’ and ‘foreign political party’ has the 

15 meaning given such term in section 1 of the Foreign 

16 Agents Registration Act of 1938, as Amended (22 U.S.C. 

17 611).’’. 

18 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 

19 by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to viola20 tions committed on or after the date of the enact21 ment of this Act. 

22 SEC. 712. REQUIRING ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF FOREIGN 

23 MONEY BAN BY POLITICAL COMMITTEES. 

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1 Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30103) is amended by 

2 adding at the end the following new subsection: 

3 ‘‘(e) ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF FOREIGN MONEY

4 BAN.— 

5 ‘‘(1) NOTIFICATION BY COMMISSION.—Not later 

6 than 30 days after a political committee files its 

7 statement of organization under subsection (a), and 

8 biennially thereafter until the committee terminates, 

9 the Commission shall provide the committee with a 

10 written explanation of section 319. 

11 ‘‘(2) ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY COMMITTEE.— 

12 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 

13 days after receiving the written explanation of 

14 section 319 under paragraph (1), the committee 

15 shall transmit to the Commission a signed cer16 tification that the committee has received such 

17 written explanation and has provided a copy of 

18 the explanation to all members, employees, con19 tractors, and volunteers of the committee. 

20 ‘‘(B) PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR SIGNA21 TURE.—The certification required under sub22 paragraph (A) shall be signed— 

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1 ‘‘(ii) in the case of any other political 

2 committee, by the treasurer of the com3 mittee.’’. 

4 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE; TRANSITION FOR EXISTING

5 COMMITTEES.— 

6 (1) IN GENERAL.—The amendment made by 

7 subsection (a) shall apply with respect to political 

8 committees which file statements of organization 

9 under section 303 of the Federal Election Campaign 

10 Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30103) on or after the date 

11 of the enactment of this Act. 

12 (2) TRANSITION FOR EXISTING COMMITTEES.— 

13 (A) NOTIFICATION BY FEDERAL ELECTION

14 COMMISSION.—Not later than 90 days after the 

15 date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal 

16 Election Commission shall provide each political 

17 committee under such Act with the written ex18 planation of section 319 of such Act, as re19 quired under section 303(e)(1) of such Act (as 

20 added by subsection (a)). 

21 (B) ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY COMMITTEE.— 

22 Not later than 30 days after receiving the writ23 ten explanation under subparagraph (A), each 

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1 signed certification, as required under section 

2 303(e)(2) of such Act (as added by subsection 

3 (a)). 

4 TITLE VIII—MATTERS RELATING 

5 TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES 

6 Subtitle A—Saudi Arabia and the 

7 Middle East 

8 SEC. 801. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS UNTIL 

9 SUBMISSION OF REQUIRED REPORT ON MUR10 DER OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI. 

11 (a) FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.— 

12 (1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 

13 (A) There is a strong bipartisan conviction, 

14 shared widely throughout the legislative and ex15 ecutive branches of the United States Govern16 ment and elsewhere, that ensuring full account17 ability for the brutal murder on October 2, 

18 2018, of Jamal Khashoggi, a former Wash19 ington Post columnist and resident of the 

20 United States, is in the public interest and also 

21 the national interest of the United States. 

22 (B) Section 5714 of the Damon Paul Nel23 son and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence 

24 Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, 

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1 133 Stat. 2173) required the Director of Na2 tional Intelligence to submit to Congress a writ3 ten report in ‘‘unclassified form’’ that includes 

4 ‘‘identification of those who carried out, partici5 pated in, ordered, or were otherwise complicit in 

6 or responsible for the death of Jamal 

7 Khashoggi.’’. 

8 (C) Section 1277 of the National Defense 

9 Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public 

10 Law 116–92; 133 Stat. 1701) likewise obligated 

11 the Director to submit to the Committee on 

12 Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Select Com13 mittee on Intelligence of the House of Rep14 resentatives and the Committee on Foreign Re15 lations and the Select Committee on Intel16 ligence of the Senate a written report on the as17 sessment of the intelligence community regard18 ing Mr. Khashoggi’s brutal murder. 

19 (D) Such section 1277 specifically called, 

20 among other things, for a determination and 

21 presentation of evidence with respect to the ad22 vance knowledge and role of any current or 

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1 pering of evidence in relation to Mr. 

2 Khashoggi’s murder. 

3 (E) Such section 1277 also required the 

4 Director to submit a list of foreign persons 

5 whom the Director has high confidence were re6 sponsible for, complicit in, or otherwise know7 ingly and materially assisted the murder, or im8 peded its impartial investigation, or who or9 dered or otherwise directed an act or acts con10 tributing to or causing the murder. 

11 (F) Contrary to the unambiguous and law12 ful command of Congress under such sections 

13 5714 and 1277, the Director did not produce 

14 any unclassified report as required by either 

15 such section, and instead, on February 20, 

16 2020, the Director submitted to such commit17 tees a classified report, which the Director re18 ferred to as an ‘‘annex’’. 

19 (G) The evident belief of the Director that 

20 no unclassified information can be produced in 

21 accordance with the directives of Congress is 

22 dubious, in light of the extensive body of cred23 ible, unclassified reporting available regarding 

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1 culpability of officials at the highest levels of 

2 the Government of Saudi Arabia. 

3 (2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 

4 Congress that the Director of National Intelligence 

5 should reasonably have been able to produce an un6 classified report pursuant to section 5714 of the 

7 Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard In8 telligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 

9 2019, and 2020 and section 1277 of the National 

10 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 that 

11 did not alter or obscure, in any way, the intelligence 

12 community’s core determinations, its presentation of 

13 evidence, or identification of relevant persons, as re14 quired, without putting sources and methods at risk. 

15 (b) LIMITATION.— 

16 (1) IN GENERAL.—None of the funds author17 ized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise 

18 made available for fiscal year 2021 for any element 

19 of the intelligence community may be obligated or 

20 expended for the purposes described in paragraph 

21 (2) until the date on which the Director of National 

22 Intelligence makes public the covered annex pursu23 ant to subsection (d). 

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1 interaction of any kind with the General Intelligence 

2 Presidency of the Government of Saudi Arabia, or 

3 any other intelligence or security service of the Gov4 ernment of Saudi Arabia, including with respect to 

5 supporting, partnering, assisting, or otherwise co6 operating, directly or indirectly with the General In7 telligence Presidency or such services. 

8 (3) EXCEPTION.—The limitation in paragraph 

9 (1) shall not apply to sharing information with or 

10 receiving from the Government of Saudi Arabia re11 garding— 

12 (A) a threat of death or serious bodily 

13 harm to any person; or 

14 (B) law enforcement activities, including 

15 with respect to cooperation between the Federal 

16 Bureau of Investigation and the Government of 

17 Saudi Arabia. 

18 (c) DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW.— 

19 (1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days 

20 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di21 rector, acting through the National Intelligence 

22 Council, shall complete a declassification review of 

23 the covered annex. 

24 (2) CONDUCT OF REVIEW.—The declassification 

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1 (A) be conducted in accordance with sec2 tion 1.7 of Executive Order No. 13526 (75 Fed. 

3 Reg. 707; relating to classified national security 

4 information) with respect to requiring that in 

5 no case shall information be classified, continue 

6 to be maintained as classified, or fail to be de7 classified in order to— 

8 (i) conceal violations of law; 

9 (ii) prevent embarrassment to a per10 son, organization, or agency; or 

11 (iii) prevent or delay the release of in12 formation that does not require protecting 

13 in the interest of the national security; 

14 (B) evaluate and take into consideration 

15 the full body of credible, open-source reporting 

16 available to the intelligence community regard17 ing the murder of Jamal Khashoggi; and 

18 (C) make public as much information con19 tained in the covered annex as possible. 

20 (d) PUBLICATION AND SUBMISSION.— 

21 (1) PUBLICATION.—Following the declassifica22 tion review of the covered annex under subsection 

23 (c), the Director shall make public on the internet 

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1 in the covered annex should remain classified, the 

2 Director may redact such information in a manner 

3 that— 

4 (A) prevents public release of information 

5 only to the extent necessary to protect specific, 

6 identified harms to the national security of the 

7 United States; and 

8 (B) does not alter or obscure the deter9 minations of, presentation of evidence by, or 

10 identification of relevant persons by, the intel11 ligence community with respect to the murder 

12 of Jamal Khashoggi. 

13 (2) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 15 days be14 fore the date on which the Director makes the cov15 ered annex public under paragraph (1), the Director 

16 shall submit to the congressional intelligence com17 mittees a report on the redactions made by the Di18 rector under such paragraph, including, for each 

19 such redaction, an explanation of how the redacted 

20 information would harm the national security of the 

21 United States despite the robust body of available 

22 open-source reporting on the murder of Jamal 

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1 (3) FORM.—The report under paragraph (2) 

2 shall be in unclassified form to the extent prac3 ticable, but may include a classified annex. 

4 (e) COVERED ANNEX DEFINED.—In this section, the 

5 term ‘‘covered annex’’ means the report regarding the 

6 murder of Jamal Khashoggi submitted on February 20, 

7 2020, by the Director of National Intelligence to the Com8 mittee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Select Com9 mittee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and 

10 the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select Com11 mittee on Intelligence of the Senate. 

12 SEC. 802. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR 

13 INTELLIGENCE SHARING RELATING TO CER14 TAIN AIR STRIKES IN YEMEN. 

15 (a) PROHIBITION.—Except as provided by subsection 

16 (b), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by 

17 this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2021 

18 for any element of the intelligence community may be obli19 gated or expended to share intelligence for the purpose 

20 of enabling or assisting air strikes in Yemen by the Saudi 

21 Arabia-led coalition. 

22 (b) EXCEPTION.—The prohibition under subsection 

23 (a) shall not apply with respect to the sharing of intel24 ligence with Saudi Arabia for the purposes of countering 

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1 groups that the intelligence community assesses to be op2 erating in Yemen and to pose a threat to the United 

3 States. 

4 SEC. 803. REPORT ON UNDERSTANDING AND MITIGATING 

5 CIVILIAN HARM FROM USE OF CERTAIN 

6 WEAPONS SYSTEMS IN YEMEN. 

7 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS; POLICY.— 

8 (1) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 

9 Congress that it is in the national interest of the 

10 United States that the United States that all parties 

11 to the Yemen conflict comply with the law of armed 

12 conflict. 

13 (2) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of 

14 the United States that credible evidence of gross vio15 lations of internationally recognized human rights by 

16 the coalition led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen should 

17 be a principal factor in United States decisions to 

18 authorize the sale, transfer, or delivery of offensive 

19 weapons and equipment to the Kingdom of Saudi 

20 Arabia. 

21 (b) REPORT.— 

22 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 

23 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 

24 of National Intelligence, in consultation with the 

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1 shall submit to the appropriate congressional com2 mittees a report containing— 

3 (A) a detailed description of any incident 

4 that has occurred since 2015 in which Saudi 

5 Arabia or one of its coalition partners has been 

6 determined to have used United States weapons 

7 against civilians or civilian objects in Yemen; 

8 (B) for each such incident, the assessment 

9 of the intelligence community as to whether the 

10 leadership of Saudi Arabia took credible steps 

11 following the incident to alter the conduct of its 

12 armed forces; and 

13 (C) an assessment of— 

14 (i) efforts by the Government of Saudi 

15 Arabia since 2015 to avoid dispropor16 tionate harm to civilians and civilian ob17 jects in Yemen; 

18 (ii) whether United States assistance 

19 to the Saudi-led coalition has led to a de20 monstrable decrease in civilians killed or 

21 injured by Saudi-led airstrikes and damage 

22 to civilian infrastructure; 

23 (iii) the humanitarian and strategic 

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1 Yemen for the broader Middle East region 

2 and United States interests; and 

3 (iv) the credibility of written assur4 ances officials of Saudi Arabia provided to 

5 the United States Government in 2017, in6 cluding whether Saudi Arabia has taken 

7 substantial and meaningful steps to adhere 

8 to such assurances. 

9 (2) SOURCES.—The report required under this 

10 subsection shall be based on all available sources. 

11 (3) DELAY OF SUBMITTAL.—If the Director de12 termines that the report cannot be submitted by the 

13 date that is 30 days after the date of the enactment 

14 of this Act, the Director shall, before such date— 

15 (A) submit to the appropriate congres16 sional committees a report setting forth the rea17 sons why the report cannot be submitted by 

18 such date and an estimated date for the sub19 mission of the report; and 

20 (B) together with the relevant experts from 

21 the National Intelligence Council and other rel22 evant elements of the intelligence community, 

23 testify before the appropriate congressional 

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1 (4) FORM OF REPORT.—The report required 

2 under this subsection shall be submitted in unclassi3 fied form, but may contain a classified annex. 

4 (c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec5 tion may be construed as authorizing the use of military 

6 force or sharing of intelligence with the Government of 

7 Saudi Arabia. 

8 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

9 (1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com10 mittees’’ means— 

11 (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 

12 the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 

13 of the House of Representatives; and 

14 (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 

15 and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 

16 Senate. 

17 (2) The term ‘‘offensive weapons’’ means preci18 sion-guided munitions, other bombs, anti-tank mis19 siles, small-diameter rockets, and large mortars. 

20 SEC. 804. REPORT ON PREVENTION OF PROLIFERATION OF 

21 SENSITIVE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES 

22 AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY. 

23 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS; POLICY.— 

24 (1) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 

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1 United States to prevent the proliferation of sen2 sitive unmanned aerial vehicles (in this section re3 ferred to as ‘‘UAV’’) and related technology, espe4 cially to China, Russia, and other countries that the 

5 National Defense Strategy identifies as peer or near6 peer competitors. 

7 (2) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of 

8 the United States that actions to prevent the pro9 liferation of sensitive UAV technology to China, 

10 Russia, and other countries shall be a principal fac11 tor in decisions of the United States to authorize the 

12 sale, transfer, or delivery of category 1 UAV systems 

13 to the United Arab Emirates. 

14 (b) REPORT.— 

15 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 

16 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 

17 of National Intelligence, in consultation with the 

18 heads of relevant intelligence community elements, 

19 shall submit to the appropriate congressional com20 mittees a report containing— 

21 (A) an assessment of efforts by the United 

22 Arab Emirates (in this section referred to as 

23 ‘‘UAE’’) since 2014 to prevent the proliferation 

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1 (B) a description of any cooperation be2 tween UAE-based entities and entities in China, 

3 Russia, or any other country that the National 

4 Defense Strategy identifies as a peer compet5 itor; 

6 (C) a description of any effort by the gov7 ernment of the UAE and UAE-based entities to 

8 conceal such cooperation from the United 

9 States; 

10 (D) a detailed inventory of all instances in 

11 which the government of the UAE and UAE12 based entities have promoted the transfer and 

13 sale of armed and unarmed UAV technology, 

14 including details regarding to which countries 

15 the government of the UAE and UAE-based en16 tities transferred or proposed transferring the 

17 technology; 

18 (E) a description of the attitude and will19 ingness of the leadership of the UAE to take 

20 steps to comply with the standards of the Mis21 sile Technology Control Regime (in this section 

22 referred to as the ‘‘MTCR’’) for the export of 

23 UAVs and category 1 UAV systems; and 

24 (F) a description of the technological and 

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1 countries are assessed to have accrued as a re2 sult of cooperation, research and development, 

3 and related activities with UAE-based entities. 

4 (2) SOURCES.—The report required under this 

5 subsection shall be based on all available sources. 

6 (3) DELAY OF SUBMITTAL.—If the Director de7 termines that the report cannot be submitted by the 

8 date that is 30 days after the date of the enactment 

9 of this Act, the Director shall, before such date— 

10 (A) submit to the appropriate congres11 sional committees a report setting forth the rea12 sons why the report cannot be submitted by 

13 such date and an estimated date for the sub14 mission of the report; and 

15 (B) together with the relevant experts from 

16 the National Intelligence Council and other rel17 evant elements of the intelligence community, 

18 testify before the appropriate congressional 

19 committees with respect to the issues to be cov20 ered by the report. 

21 (4) FORM OF REPORT.—The report required 

22 under this subsection shall be submitted in unclassi23 fied form, but may contain a classified annex. 


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1 (c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec2 tion may be construed as authorizing the sharing of intel3 ligence with the government of the UAE. 

4 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

5 (1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com6 mittees’’ means— 

7 (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 

8 the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 

9 of the House of Representatives; and 

10 (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 

11 and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 

12 Senate. 

13 (2) The term ‘‘UAV technology’’ means armed 

14 and unarmed unmanned aerial vehicles capable of 

15 carrying 500 kilogram payloads for more than 300 

16 kilometers, including those that fly under 650 kilo17 meters per hour. 

18 (3) The term ‘‘category 1 UAV system’’ means 

19 a complete rocket and all unmanned aerial vehicle 

20 systems (including ballistic missiles, space launch ve21 hicles, sounding rockets, cruise missiles, target 

22 drones, and reconnaissance drones), capable of deliv23 ering a payload of at least 500 kilograms to a range 

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1 ance sets, and re-entry vehicles), related software 

2 and technology, and specially designed production 

3 facilities for such rockets and systems. 

4 SEC. 805. REPORT ON UNDERSTANDING POTENTIAL FOR 

5 AND PREVENTING NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION 

6 IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 

7 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS; STATEMENT OF POLICY.— 

8 (1) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 

9 Congress that— 

10 (A) it is in the vital national interest of the 

11 United States to prevent the onward prolifera12 tion of nuclear weapons technology in the Mid13 dle East; 

14 (B) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin 

15 Salman’s public declaration in March 2018 that 

16 Saudi Arabia would pursue a nuclear bomb if 

17 Iran developed a nuclear bomb, and Iran’s sep18 arate decision to expand nuclear enrichment ac19 tivities following the withdrawal of the United 

20 States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of 

21 Action in May 2018, both increase the threat of 

22 a regional nuclear arms race; and 

23 (C) the Comptroller General of the United 

24 States concluded in May 2020 that— 


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1 (i) it is unclear whether the Depart2 ment of State and the Department of En3 ergy kept Congress ‘‘fully and currently in4 formed’’ of nuclear cooperation negotia5 tions with Saudi Arabia, as required by 

6 section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 

7 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153); and 

8 (ii) these negotiations are stalled over 

9 nonproliferation conditions. 

10 (2) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of 

11 the United States that any civil nuclear cooperation 

12 agreement by the United States with Saudi Arabia 

13 should include strong safeguards, including the non14 proliferation criteria established under section 123 

15 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 

16 2153), to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weap17 ons. 

18 (b) REPORT.— 

19 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 

20 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 

21 of National Intelligence, in consultation with the 

22 heads of elements of the intelligence community that 

23 the Director determines appropriate, shall submit to 

24 the appropriate congressional committees a report 

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1 ernment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 2015 

2 to develop a nuclear program. 

3 (2) ELEMENTS.—The report under paragraph 

4 (1) shall include an assessment of the following: 

5 (A) The state of nuclear cooperation be6 tween Saudi Arabia and any other country 

7 other than the United States, such as the Peo8 ple’s Republic of China or the Russian Federa9 tion. 

10 (B) Efforts by Saudi Arabia to modernize 

11 and further develop the missile capabilities and 

12 program of Saudi Arabia, including with other 

13 countries other than the United States, such as 

14 China. 

15 (C) The willingness of Saudi Arabia to ac16 cede to and abide by a civil nuclear cooperation 

17 agreement with the United States under section 

18 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 

19 U.S.C. 2153) that would include the prohibition 

20 on domestic uranium enrichment. 

21 (D) The willingness of Saudi Arabia to 

22 sign, implement, and abide by an Additional 

23 Protocol with the International Atomic Energy 

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1 (E) The willingness of Saudi Arabia to ac2 cept international monitoring and inspections of 

3 the nuclear activities of Saudi Arabia, similar in 

4 scope to such monitoring and inspections that 

5 Iran agreed to under the Joint Comprehensive 

6 Plan of Action. 

7 (F) If the United States and Saudi Arabia 

8 were to enter into a civil nuclear cooperation 

9 agreement under such section 123 that does not 

10 contain the prohibitions and criteria described 

11 in subparagraphs (C) and (D), the likelihood 

12 that the United Arab Emirates would seek to 

13 remove restrictions on its peaceful nuclear pro14 gram and renegotiate its civil nuclear coopera15 tion agreement with the United States. 

16 (3) SOURCES.—The report under paragraph (1) 

17 shall be based on all available credible sources. 

18 (4) FORM.—The report under paragraph (1) 

19 shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 

20 contain a classified annex. 

21 (5) EXTENSION.—If the Director of National 

22 Intelligence determines that the Director cannot sub23 mit the report under paragraph (1) by the date re24 quired by such paragraph, the Director shall, before 

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1 (A) submit to the appropriate congres2 sional committees a report setting forth the rea3 sons why the report cannot be submitted by 

4 such date and an estimated date for the sub5 mission of the report; and 

6 (B) along with the relevant experts from 

7 the National Intelligence Council and other rel8 evant elements of the intelligence community, 

9 testify before the appropriate congressional 

10 committees on the issues that will be covered by 

11 the report. 

12 (c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec13 tion may be construed as authorizing—— 

14 (1) the sharing of intelligence with the Govern15 ment of Saudi Arabia; or 

16 (2) any nuclear cooperation with the Govern17 ment of Saudi Arabia. 

18 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

19 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT20 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com21 mittees’’ means— 

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1 (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 

2 the House of Representatives and the Com3 mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 

4 (2) JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION.— 

5 The term ‘‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’’ 

6 means the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 

7 signed at Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran and by 

8 the People’s Republic of China, France, Germany, 

9 the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and 

10 the United States, with the High Representative of 

11 the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Secu12 rity Policy, and all implementing materials and 

13 agreements related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan 

14 of Action. 

15 (3) PROHIBITION ON DOMESTIC URANIUM EN16 RICHMENT.—The term ‘‘prohibition on domestic 

17 uranium enrichment’’ means, with respect to a civil 

18 nuclear cooperation agreement under section 123 of 

19 the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153), 

20 provisions in the agreement that prohibit domestic 

21 uranium enrichment in the same manner as the 

22 agreement entered into by the United States and the 

23 United Arab Emirates under such section. 


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1 SEC. 806. REPORT ON PROPAGATION OF EXTREMIST 

2 IDEOLOGIES FROM SAUDI ARABIA. 

3 (a) REPORT.—Not later than February 1, 2021, the 

4 Director of National Intelligence, acting through the Na5 tional Intelligence Council, shall submit to the congres6 sional intelligence committees a report that includes a de7 tailed description of— 

8 (1) the role of governmental and nongovern9 mental entities and individuals of Saudi Arabia in 

10 promoting, funding, and exporting ideologies, includ11 ing so-called ‘‘Wahhabist ideology’’, that inspire ex12 tremism or extremist groups in other countries; and 

13 (2) the strategic consequences for vital national 

14 security interests of the United States as a result of 

15 such promotion, funding, or export. 

16 (b) FORM.—The report under subsection (a) shall be 

17 submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classi18 fied annex. 

19 SEC. 807. REPORT ON FINANCIAL INFLUENCE OPERATIONS 

20 OF SAUDI ARABIA, THE UNITED ARAB EMIR21 ATES, AND QATAR. 

22 (a) REPORT.—Not later than February 1, 2021, the 

23 Director of National Intelligence, acting through the Na24 tional Intelligence Council, shall submit to the congres25 sional intelligence committees a report that includes an as26 sessment of any efforts, including the use of financial reVerDate Sep 11 2014 03:06 Jul 31, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00150 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H7856.IH H7856

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1 sources, by the Governments of Saudi Arabia, the United 

2 Arab Emirates, or Qatar to influence political processes, 

3 policies, policymakers, or public debate in the United 

4 States (without regard to the legality of such efforts). 

5 (b) FORM.—The report under subsection (a) shall be 

6 submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classi7 fied annex. 

8 Subtitle B—People’s Republic of 

9 China 

10 SEC. 811. ANNUAL REPORTS ON SECURITY SERVICES OF 

11 THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN THE 

12 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE RE13 GION. 

14 (a) FINDING; SENSE OF CONGRESS.— 

15 (1) FINDING.—Congress finds that the Na16 tional People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of 

17 China promulgated the Law of the People’s Republic 

18 of China on Safeguarding National Security in the 

19 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on June 

20 30, 2020. 

21 (2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 

22 Congress that— 

23 (A) the People’s Republic of China is le24 gally bound to guarantee the civil liberties of 

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1 the Basic Law and the ‘‘Joint Declaration of 

2 the Government of the United Kingdom of 

3 Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 

4 Government of the People’s Republic of China 

5 on the Question of Hong Kong’’ (hereafter the 

6 Joint Declaration), in which China committed 

7 that for 50 years, the ‘‘social and economic sys8 tems in Hong Kong will remain unchanged, and 

9 so will the life-style’’; 

10 (B) the Joint Declaration states that 

11 ‘‘Rights and freedoms, including those of the 

12 person, of speech, of the press, of assembly, of 

13 association, of travel, of movement, of cor14 respondence, of strike, of choice of occupation, 

15 of academic research and of religious belief will 

16 be ensured by law in the Hong Kong Special 

17 Administrative Region’’, and such rights are re18 iterated in Chapter III of the Basic Law; 

19 (C) the Law of the People’s Republic of 

20 China on Safeguarding National Security in the 

21 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region vio22 lates China’s commitments under the Joint 

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1 (D) the United States of America has a 

2 continued interest in the autonomy of the Hong 

3 Kong Special Administrative Region, particu4 larly as it relates to the continued viability of 

5 the freedom of speech, of the press, and of pub6 lication; the freedom of association, or assem7 bly; the freedom from arbitrary or unlawful ar8 rest, detention, or imprisonment; the freedom 

9 from arbitrary or unlawful search of, or intru10 sion into, a Hong Kong resident’s home or 

11 other premises; the freedom and privacy of 

12 communication; the freedom of conscience; judi13 cial independence; and the right to initiate legal 

14 proceedings in the courts to hold authorities ac15 countable for unlawful acts; and 

16 (E) the introduction of the Committee for 

17 Safeguarding National Security and a national 

18 security division of the Hong Kong Police Force 

19 that operates outside of the judicial oversight of 

20 the courts of Hong Kong further extends the 

21 reach of China’s security apparatus, under22 mining the integrity and independence of the 

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1 (b) REPORTS.—Title XI of the National Security Act 

2 of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3231 et seq.), is amended by inserting 

3 after section 1107 the following new section: 

4 ‘‘SEC. 1107A. ANNUAL REPORTS ON SECURITY SERVICES OF 

5 THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN THE 

6 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE RE7 GION. 

8 ‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—On an annual basis through 

9 2047, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit 

10 to the appropriate congressional committees, and make 

11 publicly available on the internet website of the Director, 

12 a report on the presence and activities of Chinese security 

13 services operating within the Hong Kong Special Adminis14 trative Region. 

15 ‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each report under subsection (a) 

16 shall include, with respect to the year covered by the re17 port, the following: 

18 ‘‘(1) Identification of the approximate number 

19 of personnel affiliated with Chinese security services 

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1 ated with the national security division of the Hong 

2 Kong Police Force. 

3 ‘‘(2) A description of the command and control 

4 structures of such security services, including infor5 mation regarding the extent to which such security 

6 services are controlled by the Government of the 

7 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or the 

8 Government of the People’s Republic of China. 

9 ‘‘(3) A description of the working relationship 

10 and coordination mechanisms of the Chinese security 

11 services with the police force of the Hong Kong Spe12 cial Administrative Region. 

13 ‘‘(4) A description of the activities conducted by 

14 Chinese security services operating within the Hong 

15 Kong Special Administrative Region, including— 

16 ‘‘(A) information regarding the extent to 

17 which such security services, and officers associ18 ated with the national security division of the 

19 Hong Kong Police Force, are engaged in front20 line policing, serving in advisory and assistance 

21 roles, or both; 

22 ‘‘(B) an assessment of the likelihood of 

23 such security services conducting renditions of 

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1 every known individual subject to such rendition 

2 during the year covered by the report; and 

3 ‘‘(C) an assessment of how such activities 

4 conducted by Chinese security services con5 tribute to self-censorship and corruption within 

6 the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 

7 ‘‘(5) A discussion of the doctrine and tactics 

8 employed by Chinese security services operating 

9 within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Re10 gion, including an overview of the extent to which 

11 such security services employ surveillance, detection, 

12 and control methods, including ‘high-tech’ policing 

13 models and ‘preventative policing tactics’, that are 

14 consistent with the rise of digital authoritarianism, 

15 and used in a manner similar to methods used in the 

16 Xinjiang region of China. 

17 ‘‘(6) An overview of the funding for Chinese se18 curity services operating within the Hong Kong Spe19 cial Administrative Region, including an assessment 

20 of the extent to which funding is drawn locally from 

21 the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gov22 ernment or from the Government of China. 

23 ‘‘(7) A discussion of the various surveillance 

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1 within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Re2 gion, including— 

3 ‘‘(A) a list of the key companies that pro4 vide such technologies; and 

5 ‘‘(B) an assessment of the degree to which 

6 such technologies can be accessed by Chinese 

7 security services operating within the Hong 

8 Kong Special Administrative Region. 

9 ‘‘(c) COORDINATION.—In carrying out subsection (a), 

10 the Director shall coordinate with the Director of the Cen11 tral Intelligence Agency, the Director of the National Se12 curity Agency, the Director of the Defense Intelligence 

13 Agency, the Director of the National Geospatial-Intel14 ligence Agency, the Assistant Secretary of State for the 

15 Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and any other rel16 evant head of an element of the intelligence community. 

17 ‘‘(d) FORM.—Each report submitted to the appro18 priate congressional committees under subsection (a) shall 

19 be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a clas20 sified annex. 

21 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

22 ‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT23 TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional com24 mittees’ means— 


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1 ‘‘(A) the congressional intelligence commit2 tees; 

3 ‘‘(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

4 and the Committee on Armed Services of the 

5 House of Representatives; and 

6 ‘‘(C) the Committee on Foreign Relations 

7 and the Committee on Armed Services of the 

8 Senate. 

9 ‘‘(2) CHINESE SECURITY SERVICES.—The term 

10 ‘Chinese security services’ means— 

11 ‘‘(A) the security services of the Govern12 ment of the People’s Republic of China, includ13 ing the Ministry of State Security and the Min14 istry of Public Security; and 

15 ‘‘(B) any known front organizations or 

16 aliases associated with such security services, 

17 including officers associated with the national 

18 security division of the Hong Kong Police Force 

19 and other officers of the Hong Kong Police 

20 Force selected by the Committee for Safe21 guarding National Security to work on matters 

22 relating to national security.’’. 

23 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

24 in the first section of the National Security Act of 1947 


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1 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

2 1107 the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1107A. Annual reports on security services of the People’s Republic of 

China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.’’. 

3 SEC. 812. RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP ON ACTIVITIES OF 

4 PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 

5 (a) RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP.— 

6 (1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days 

7 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di8 rector of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 

9 shall seek to enter into a partnership with an aca10 demic or non-profit research institution to— 

11 (A) carry out joint unclassified geospatial 

12 intelligence analyses of the activities of the Peo13 ple’s Republic of China that pose risks to the 

14 national security interests of the United States; 

15 and 

16 (B) make available on a publicly available 

17 internet website unclassified geospatial intel18 ligence products relating to such analyses. 

19 (2) ELEMENTS.—The Director shall ensure 

20 that the activities of China analyzed under para21 graph (1)(A) include the following: 

22 (A) Any notable developments relating to 

23 the global activities of the People’s Liberation 

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1 Army Navy, the People’s Liberation Army Air 

2 Force, the People’s Liberation Army Rocket 

3 Force, the People’s Liberation Army Strategic 

4 Support Force, and the Chinese People’s Armed 

5 Police Force Coast Guard Corps. 

6 (B) Infrastructure projects associated with 

7 the ‘‘One Belt, One Road’’ Initiative. 

8 (C) Maritime land reclamation activities 

9 conducted by China in the South China Sea, 

10 the Indian Ocean region, and the broader mari11 time commons. 

12 (D) Matters relevant to global public 

13 health and climate security, including— 

14 (i) indications and warnings of disease 

15 outbreaks with pandemic potential; 

16 (ii) the activities of China likely con17 tributing to climate change; and 

18 (iii) any environmental degradation 

19 directly resulting from the practices of 

20 China. 

21 (3) CONSORTIUM.—In carrying out paragraph 

22 (1), the Director may enter into a partnership 

23 with— 

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1 (B) a consortium of research institutions if 

2 the Director determines that the inclusion of 

3 multiple institutions will result in more effective 

4 research conducted pursuant to this section or 

5 improve the outcomes of such research. 

6 (4) DURATION.—The Director shall carry out a 

7 partnership under this section for a period that is 

8 not less than 10 years following the date of the en9 actment of this Act. 

10 (5) IMPROVEMENTS TO PARTNERSHIP.—The 

11 Director may modify the partnership under para12 graph (1) or select a new research institution with 

13 which to enter into such a partnership if— 

14 (A) the Director consults with the congres15 sional intelligence committees with respect to 

16 the proposed modified or new partnership; 

17 (B) the modified or new partnership is car18 ried out in accordance with this section; and 

19 (C) the Director determines that the modi20 fied or new partnership will result in more ef21 fective research conducted pursuant to this sec22 tion or improve the outcomes of such research. 

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1 (1) IDENTIFICATION AND PUBLICATION.—Dur2 ing the life of the partnership under subsection (a), 

3 the Director shall regularly— 

4 (A) identify raw, unclassified geospatial 

5 data that could improve the research conducted 

6 under the partnership if the data was made 

7 publicly available; and 

8 (B) make such data publicly available. 

9 (2) CONSULTATION.—The Director shall carry 

10 out paragraph (1) in consultation with the research 

11 institution or consortium of research institutions in12 volved with the partnership under subsection (a). 

13 (c) BRIEFINGS.—Not later than 270 days after the 

14 date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter 

15 during the life of the partnership under subsection (a), 

16 the Director shall provide to the appropriate congressional 

17 committees a briefing on the partnership. Each such brief18 ing shall include the following: 

19 (1) The outcomes of research conducted under 

20 the partnership. 

21 (2) Identification of the actions that have been 

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1 tity and types of raw data the partnership has made 

2 publicly available. 

3 (3) Identification of actual and projected costs 

4 to carry out the partnership. 

5 (d) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES

6 DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con7 gressional committees’’ means— 

8 (1) the congressional intelligence committees; 

9 and 

10 (2) the Subcommittees on Defense of the Com11 mittees on Appropriations of the House of Rep12 resentatives and the Senate. 

13 SEC. 813. REPORT ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL AND PER14 SONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT REGU15 LATORY PRACTICES OF THE PEOPLE’S RE16 PUBLIC OF CHINA. 

17 (a) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date 

18 of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National In19 telligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional 

20 committees, and make publicly available on the internet 

21 website of the Director, a report on the pharmaceutical 

22 and personal protective equipment regulatory practices of 

23 the People’s Republic of China. 

24 (b) CONTENTS.—The report under subsection (a) 

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1 (1) An assessment of the quantity of active 

2 pharmaceutical ingredients produced annually within 

3 China. 

4 (2) An estimate of the percentage of active 

5 pharmaceutical ingredients produced globally that 

6 originate in China. 

7 (3) A description of the National Medical Prod8 ucts Administration of China, including with respect 

9 to— 

10 (A) the roles and responsibilities of the Ad11 ministration; 

12 (B) the organizational structure of the Ad13 ministration; and 

14 (C) any affiliated institutions of the Na15 tional Medical Products Administration. 

16 (4) An assessment of the capacity of the Na17 tional Medical Products Administration to effectively 

18 develop safety standards, efficacy standards, and 

19 any other relevant standards concerning the produc20 tion of active pharmaceutical ingredients and phar21 maceutical drugs. 

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1 tive pharmaceutical ingredients and pharmaceutical 

2 drugs. 

3 (6) An overview of qualitative disparities be4 tween active pharmaceutical ingredients and phar5 maceutical drugs approved by the National Medical 

6 Products Administration and similar drugs subject 

7 to regulatory oversight and approval in the markets 

8 of the member states of the Organisation for Eco9 nomic Co-operation and Development. 

10 (7) An assessment of the qualitative disparities 

11 between the standards and enforcement practices of 

12 the National Medical Products Administration on 

13 the production and distribution of active pharma14 ceutical ingredients and pharmaceutical drugs and 

15 the good manufacturing practice guidelines issued by 

16 the International Council for Harmonization of 

17 Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for 

18 Human Use. 

19 (8) An assessment of the susceptibility of the 

20 National Medical Products Administration, the sub21 ordinate organizations of the National Medical Prod22 ucts Administration, and other associated personnel 

23 to engage in corrupt practices, particularly practices 

24 that relate to assessing the safety of pharmaceutical 

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1 the authority of the National Medical Products Ad2 ministration. 

3 (9) An assessment of the national security risks 

4 associated with the reliance by the United States on 

5 pharmaceutical ingredients and pharmaceutical 

6 drugs originating in China, including an assessment 

7 of how and whether China could leverage its produc8 tion of certain pharmaceutical ingredients as a 

9 means to coerce the United States or the partners 

10 and allies of the United States. 

11 (10) An assessment of the percentage of per12 sonal protective equipment produced globally that 

13 originates in China. 

14 (11) An assessment of the national security 

15 risks associated with any reliance by the United 

16 States on personal protective equipment originating 

17 in China, including an assessment of how and 

18 whether China could leverage its production of per19 sonal protective equipment as a means to coerce the 

20 United States or the partners and allies of the 

21 United States. 

22 (c) COORDINATION.—In carrying out subsection (a), 

23 the Director shall coordinate with the Director of the Cen24 tral Intelligence Agency, the Director of the National Se25 curity Agency, the Director of the Defense Intelligence 


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1 Agency, the Director of the National Geospatial-Intel2 ligence Agency, and any other relevant head of an element 

3 of the intelligence community. 

4 (d) FORM.—The report submitted to the appropriate 

5 congressional committees under subsection (a) shall be 

6 submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classi7 fied annex. 

8 (e) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE9 FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres10 sional committees’’ means— 

11 (1) the congressional intelligence committees; 

12 (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 

13 Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House 

14 of Representatives; and 

15 (3) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 

16 the Committee on Finance of the Senate. 

17 Subtitle C—Matters Relating to 

18 Other Countries 

19 SEC. 821. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON SITUA20 TION IN AFGHANISTAN. 

21 (a) REQUIREMENT.—The Director of National Intel22 ligence, acting through the National Intelligence Council, 

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1 (b) MATTERS.—The National Intelligence Estimate 

2 produced under subsection (a) shall include an assessment 

3 of the prospects of a durable intra-Afghan settlement of 

4 the conflict in Afghanistan that leads to— 

5 (1) a permanent ceasefire and sustained reduc6 tion in violence; 

7 (2) a verifiable break between the Taliban and 

8 al-Qaeda; 

9 (3) verifiable cooperation by the Taliban in ef10 forts against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and 

11 the Levant Khorasan, and associated international 

12 terrorists the intelligence community determines are 

13 active in Afghanistan and pose a threat to the 

14 United States homeland or United States interests 

15 abroad; and 

16 (4) sustainment of the social and human rights 

17 progress achieved by Afghan women and girls since 

18 2001. 

19 (c) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.— 

20 (1) SUBMISSION.—Not later than February 1, 

21 2021, the Director shall submit to the congressional 

22 intelligence committees the National Intelligence Es23 timate produced under subsection (a), including all 

24 intelligence reporting underlying the Estimate. 


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1 (2) NOTICE REGARDING SUBMISSION.—If be2 fore February 1, 2021, the Director determines that 

3 the National Intelligence Estimate produced under 

4 subsection (a) cannot be submitted by such date, the 

5 Director shall (before such date)— 

6 (A) submit to the congressional intelligence 

7 committees a report setting forth the reasons 

8 why the National Intelligence Estimate cannot 

9 be submitted by such date and an estimated 

10 date for the submission of the National Intel11 ligence Estimate; and 

12 (B) testify before the congressional intel13 ligence committees on the issues that will be 

14 covered by the National Intelligence Estimate. 

15 (3) FORM.—The National Intelligence Estimate 

16 shall be submitted under paragraph (1) in classified 

17 form. 

18 (d) PUBLIC VERSION.—Consistent with the protec19 tion of intelligence sources and methods, at the same time 

20 as the Director submits to the congressional intelligence 

21 committees the National Intelligence Estimate under sub22 section (c), the Director shall make publicly available on 

23 the internet website of the Director an unclassified version 

24 of the key findings of the National Intelligence Estimate. 


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1 SEC. 822. ASSESSMENT REGARDING TENSIONS BETWEEN 

2 ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN. 

3 (a) ASSESSMENT REQUIRED.—Not later than 90 

4 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Direc5 tor of National Intelligence shall submit to the congres6 sional intelligence committees a written assessment re7 garding tensions between the governments of Armenia and 

8 Azerbaijan, including with respect to the status of the 

9 Nagorno-Karabakh region. Such assessment shall include 

10 each of the following: 

11 (1) An identification of the strategic interests of 

12 the United States and its partners in the Armenia13 Azerbaijan region. 

14 (2) A description of all significant uses of force 

15 in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 

16 the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan during 

17 calendar year 2020, including a description of each 

18 significant use of force and an assessment of who 

19 initiated the use of such force. 

20 (3) An assessment of the effect of United 

21 States military assistance to Azerbaijan and Arme22 nia on the regional balance of power and the likeli23 hood of further use of military force. 

24 (4) An assessment of the likelihood of any fur25 ther uses of force or potentially destabilizing activi26 ties in the region in the near- to medium-term. 


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1 (b) FORM OF ASSESSMENT.—The assessment re2 quired under this section shall be submitted in unclassified 

3 form, but may contain a classified annex. 

4 TITLE IX—REPORTS AND OTHER 

5 MATTERS 

6 SEC. 901. ANNUAL REPORTS ON WORLDWIDE THREATS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the National Security 

8 Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3021 et seq.) is amended by in9 serting after section 108A the following new section: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 108B. ANNUAL REPORTS ON WORLDWIDE THREATS. 

11 ‘‘(a) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than the first 

12 Monday in February 2021, and each year thereafter, the 

13 Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the 

14 heads of the elements of the intelligence community, shall 

15 submit to the appropriate congressional committees a re16 port containing an assessment of the intelligence commu17 nity with respect to worldwide threats to the national secu18 rity of the United States. 

19 ‘‘(b) FORM.—Each report under subsection (a) shall 

20 be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a clas21 sified annex only for the protection of intelligence sources 

22 and methods relating to the matters contained in the re23 port. 

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1 ‘‘(1) OPEN HEARINGS.—Upon request by the 

2 appropriate congressional committees, the Director 

3 (and any other head of an element of the intelligence 

4 community determined appropriate by the commit5 tees in consultation with the Director) shall testify 

6 before such committees in an open setting regarding 

7 a report under subsection (a). 

8 ‘‘(2) CLOSED HEARINGS.—Any information that 

9 may not be disclosed during an open hearing under 

10 paragraph (1) in order to protect intelligence sources 

11 and methods may instead be discussed in a closed 

12 hearing that immediately follows such open hearing. 

13 ‘‘(d) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES

14 DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘appropriate congres15 sional committees’ means— 

16 ‘‘(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 

17 and 

18 ‘‘(2) the Committees on Armed Services of the 

19 House of Representatives and the Senate.’’. 

20 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

21 at the beginning of such Act is amended by inserting after 

22 the item relating to section 108A the following new item: 

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1 SEC. 902. ANNUAL INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTS ON RELA2 TIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN AND VIOLENT 

3 EXTREMISM. 

4 (a) REPORTS.—Title XI of the National Security Act 

5 of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3231 et seq.), as amended by section 

6 602, is further amended by inserting after section 1110 

7 the following new section: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 1111. ANNUAL INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENTS ON RE9 LATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN AND VIOLENT 

10 EXTREMISM. 

11 ‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 

12 the date of the enactment of this section, the Director of 

13 National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary 

14 of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the head of any 

15 element of the intelligence community the Director deter16 mines appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate con17 gressional committees an intelligence assessment on the 

18 relationship between women and violent extremism and 

19 terrorism. 

20 ‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—The intelligence assessment under 

21 subsection (a) shall address the following: 

22 ‘‘(1) The historical trends and current state of 

23 the roles of women in all aspects of violent extre24 mism and terrorism, including as recruiters, sympa25 thizers, perpetrators, and combatants, as well as 


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1 peace-builders and preventers of violent extremism 

2 and terrorism. 

3 ‘‘(2) How the roles of women in all aspects of 

4 violent extremism and terrorism are likely to change 

5 in the near- and medium-term. 

6 ‘‘(3) The extent to which the unequal status of 

7 women affects the ability of armed combatants and 

8 terrorist groups to enlist or conscript women and 

9 men as combatants and perpetrators of violence. 

10 ‘‘(4) How terrorist groups violate the rights of 

11 women and girls, including through child, early, and 

12 forced marriage, abduction, sexual violence, and 

13 human trafficking, and the extent to which such vio14 lations contribute to the spread of conflict and ter15 rorist activities. 

16 ‘‘(5) Opportunities to address the security risk 

17 posed by female extremists and leverage the roles of 

18 women in counterterrorism efforts. 

19 ‘‘(6) Approaches and challenges to identify, re20 patriate, and reintegrate women affiliated with vio21 lent extremist or terrorist groups, including through 

22 disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration pro23 grams. 

24 ‘‘(c) ANNUAL UPDATES.—On an annual basis, the 

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1 committees an update to the intelligence assessment under 

2 subsection (a). 

3 ‘‘(d) FORM.—The assessment submitted to the ap4 propriate congressional committees under subsection (a), 

5 and each update submitted under subsection (c), shall be 

6 submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classi7 fied annex. 

8 ‘‘(e) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES

9 DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘appropriate congres10 sional committees’ means— 

11 ‘‘(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 

12 ‘‘(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 

13 Committee on Armed Services of the House of Rep14 resentatives; and 

15 ‘‘(3) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 

16 the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.’’. 

17 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

18 in the first section of the National Security Act of 1947 

19 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

20 1110, as added by section 602, the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1111. Annual intelligence assessments on relationship between women 

and violent extremism.’’. 

21 SEC. 903. ANNUAL REPORT ON CLIMATE SECURITY ADVI22 SORY COUNCIL. 

23 Section 120 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 

24 U.S.C. 3060) is amended— 


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1 (1) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as 

2 subsections (e) and (f), respectively; and 

3 (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol4 lowing new subsection (d): 

5 ‘‘(d) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than January 31, 

6 2021, and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the 

7 chair of the Council shall submit, on behalf of the Council, 

8 to the congressional intelligence committees a report de9 scribing the activities of the Council as described in sub10 section (c) during the year preceding the year during 

11 which the report is submitted.’’. 

12 SEC. 904. IMPROVEMENTS TO FUNDING FOR NATIONAL SE13 CURITY EDUCATION PROGRAM. 

14 (a) FUNDING FOR SCHOLARSHIP, FELLOWSHIP, AND

15 GRANT PROGRAMS.—Section 810 of the David L. Boren 

16 National Security Education Act of 1991 (50 U.S.C. 

17 1910) is amended— 

18 (1) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘for each fis19 cal year, beginning with fiscal year 2005,’’ and in20 serting ‘‘for each of fiscal years 2005 through 

21 2021’’; and 

22 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub23 section: 

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1 able to the Secretary under the Fund for a fiscal year, 

2 there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for 

3 each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 2022, 

4 $8,000,000, to carry out the scholarship, fellowship, and 

5 grant programs under subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), 

6 respectively, of section 802(a)(1).’’. 

7 (b) FUNDING FOR NATIONAL FLAGSHIP LANGUAGE

8 INITIATIVE.—Section 811 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 1911) 

9 is amended— 

10 (1) in subsection (a), by striking 

11 ‘‘$10,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$16,000,000’’; and 

12 (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘for each fis13 cal year, beginning with fiscal year 2005,’’ and in14 serting ‘‘for each of fiscal years 2005 through 

15 2021’’. 

16 (c) FUNDING FOR SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR AD17 VANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES.—Section 812 of 

18 the David L. Boren National Security Education Act of 

19 1991 (50 U.S.C. 1912) is amended— 

20 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘for each fis21 cal year, beginning with fiscal year 2005,’’ and in22 serting ‘‘for each of fiscal years 2005 through 

23 2021’’; 

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1 (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol2 lowing new subsection (b): 

3 ‘‘(b) FISCAL YEARS BEGINNING WITH FISCAL YEAR

4 2022.—In addition to amounts that may be made avail5 able to the Secretary under the Fund for a fiscal year, 

6 there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for 

7 each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 2022, 

8 $2,000,000, to carry out the scholarship programs for 

9 English language studies by certain heritage community 

10 citizens under section 802(a)(1)(E).’’; and 

11 (4) in subsection (c), as so redesignated, by 

12 striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘this sec13 tion’’. 

14 SEC. 905. REPORT ON BEST PRACTICES TO PROTECT PRI15 VACY, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND CIVIL RIGHTS 

16 OF CHINESE AMERICANS. 

17 (a) REPORT.—Section 5712 of the Damon Paul Nel18 son and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authoriza19 tion Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020 (Public 

20 Law 116–92; 133 Stat. 2171) is— 

21 (1) transferred to title XI of the National Secu22 rity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3231 et seq.); 

23 (2) inserted after section 1112 of such title, as 

24 added by section 902; 

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1 (4) amended— 

2 (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘AND

3 CIVIL LIBERTIES’’ and inserting ‘‘, CIVIL

4 LIBERTIES, AND CIVIL RIGHTS’’; and 

5 (B) in subsection (b)— 

6 (i) in the matter preceding paragraph 

7 (1) by striking ‘‘Not later than 180 days 

8 after the date of the enactment of this 

9 Act,’’ and inserting ‘‘On an annual basis,’’; 

10 and 

11 (ii) by striking ‘‘and civil liberties’’, 

12 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘, civil 

13 liberties, and civil rights’’. 

14 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

15 at the beginning of the National Security Act of 1947 is 

16 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

17 1111, as added by section 902, the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1112. Report on best practices to protect privacy, civil liberties, and civil 

rights of Chinese Americans.’’. 

18 SEC. 906. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON THREAT 

19 OF GLOBAL PANDEMIC DISEASE. 

20 (a) NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE.— 

21 (1) REQUIREMENT.—The Director of National 

22 Intelligence, acting through the National Intelligence 

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1 mate on the threat of global pandemic disease, in2 cluding with respect to the following: 

3 (A) An assessment of the possible courses 

4 of the COVID–19 pandemic during the 18 

5 months following the date of the Estimate, in6 cluding— 

7 (i) the projected spread of COVID–19 

8 outside the United States and the likeli9 hood of subsequent major outbreaks; 

10 (ii) the capacity of countries and 

11 international organizations to combat the 

12 further spread of COVID–19, including 

13 risks and opportunities for further global 

14 cooperation; and 

15 (iii) the risks to the national security 

16 and health security of the United States if 

17 COVID–19 is not contained abroad. 

18 (B) An assessment of the global public 

19 health system and the responses of the system 

20 to the COVID–19 pandemic, including— 

21 (i) prospects for an effective global 

22 disease surveillance and response system, 

23 opportunities to advance the development 

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1 has been developed before a disease out2 break occurs; and 

3 (ii) an assessment of global health 

4 system capacity. 

5 (C) An assessment of— 

6 (i) the humanitarian and economic 

7 implications of the COVID–19 pandemic; 

8 and 

9 (ii) the consequences of the COVID– 

10 19 pandemic with respect to political sta11 bility, armed conflict, democratization, and 

12 the global leadership by the United States 

13 of the post-World War II international sys14 tem. 

15 (D) An assessment of— 

16 (i) likely threats by global pandemic 

17 diseases during the 10-year period fol18 lowing the date of the Estimate; 

19 (ii) global readiness to avert a future 

20 global pandemic; 

21 (iii) challenges and opportunities for 

22 the policy of the United States to advance 

23 global pandemic preparedness; and 

24 (iv) the potential role of non-state and 

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1 disinformation campaigns involving 

2 COVID–19 or future potential global 

3 pandemics. 

4 (E) Any other matters the Director deter5 mines appropriate. 

6 (2) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.— 

7 (A) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 90 days 

8 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

9 Director shall submit to the Permanent Select 

10 Committee on Intelligence of the House of Rep11 resentatives and the Select Committee on Intel12 ligence of the Senate the National Intelligence 

13 Estimate produced under paragraph (1), includ14 ing all intelligence reporting underlying the Es15 timate. 

16 (B) NOTICE REGARDING SUBMISSION.—If 

17 before the end of the 90-day period specified in 

18 subparagraph (A) the Director determines that 

19 the National Intelligence Estimate under para20 graph (1) cannot be submitted by the end of 

21 that period, the Director shall (before the end 

22 of that period)— 

23 (i) submit to the Permanent Select 

24 Committee on Intelligence of the House of 

25 Representatives and the Select Committee 


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1 on Intelligence of the Senate a report set2 ting forth— 

3 (I) the reasons why the National 

4 Intelligence Estimate cannot be sub5 mitted by the end of that period; and 

6 (II) an estimated date for the 

7 submission of the National Intel8 ligence Estimate; and 

9 (ii) testify before such committees on 

10 the issues that will be covered by the Na11 tional Intelligence Estimate. 

12 (C) FORM.—The National Intelligence Es13 timate shall be submitted under subparagraph 

14 (A) in classified form. 

15 (3) PUBLIC VERSION.—Consistent with the pro16 tection of intelligence sources and methods, at the 

17 same time as the Director submits to the congres18 sional intelligence committees the National Intel19 ligence Estimate under paragraph (2), the Director 

20 shall submit to the congressional committees speci21 fied in paragraph (4), and make publicly available 

22 on the internet website of the Director, an unclassi23 fied version of the National Intelligence Estimate. 


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1 (4) CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES SPECI2 FIED.—The congressional committees specified in 

3 this paragraph are the following: 

4 (A) The Committee on Appropriations, the 

5 Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 

6 on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on 

7 Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign 

8 Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, 

9 and the Permanent Select Committee on Intel10 ligence of the House of Representatives. 

11 (B) The Committee on Appropriations, the 

12 Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 

13 on Finance, the Committee on Foreign Rela14 tions, the Committee on Health, Education, 

15 Labor, and Pensions, the Committee on Home16 land Security and Governmental Affairs, and 

17 the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 

18 Senate. 

19 (5) CONSULTATION.—The Director shall pre20 pare the National Intelligence Estimate under para21 graph (1) in consultation with the Secretary of 

22 Health and Human Services, the Director of the 

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1 ment of the Federal Government the Director of Na2 tional Intelligence determines appropriate. 

3 (b) FUTURE PANDEMIC PLAN.— 

4 (1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days 

5 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

6 President shall transmit to the congressional com7 mittees specified in paragraph (3), and make pub8 licly available on the internet website of the Presi9 dent, a report containing a whole-of-government 

10 plan for an effective response to subsequent major 

11 outbreaks of the COVID–19 pandemic and for other 

12 future global pandemic diseases. 

13 (2) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The plan under 

14 paragraph (1) shall address how to improve the fol15 lowing: 

16 (A) Pandemic planning. 

17 (B) Homeland preparedness. 

18 (C) International disease surveillance. 

19 (D) Diagnostic testing. 

20 (E) Contact tracing. 

21 (F) The role of the Federal Government 

22 with respect to the regulation, acquisition, and 

23 disbursement, of medical supplies and other 

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1 tential (including diagnostic testing equipment, 

2 biomedical equipment, drugs and medicines, 

3 and hygiene equipment). 

4 (G) The procurement and distribution of 

5 personal protective equipment. 

6 (H) Early domestic response to future 

7 global pandemic diseases in the United States. 

8 (3) CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES SPECI9 FIED.—The congressional committees specified in 

10 this paragraph are the following: 

11 (A) The Committee on Appropriations, the 

12 Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Com13 mittee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 

14 Homeland Security, and the Permanent Select 

15 Committee on Intelligence of the House of Rep16 resentatives. 

17 (B) The Committee on Appropriations, the 

18 Committee on Foreign Relations, the Com19 mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pen20 sions, the Committee on Homeland Security 

21 and Governmental Affairs, and the Select Com22 mittee on Intelligence of the Senate. 

23 (c) GLOBAL STRATEGY.— 

24 (1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days 

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1 President, in coordination with the Director of Na2 tional Intelligence, shall transmit to the congres3 sional committees specified in paragraph (2), and 

4 make publicly available on the internet website of 

5 the President, a report containing a global strategy 

6 for mobilizing international institutions to combat 

7 the COVID–19 pandemic. 

8 (2) CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES SPECI9 FIED.—The congressional committees specified in 

10 this paragraph are the following: 

11 (A) The Committee on Appropriations, the 

12 Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 

13 on Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select 

14 Committee on Intelligence of the House of Rep15 resentatives. 

16 (B) The Committee on Appropriations, the 

17 Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 

18 on Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee 

19 on Intelligence of the Senate. 

20 SEC. 907. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT FOR BRIEF21 INGS ON NATIONAL SECURITY EFFECTS OF 

22 EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND 

23 PANDEMICS. 

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1 Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020 (division E of Public 

2 Law 116–98) is amended— 

3 (1) in the paragraph heading, by striking 

4 ‘‘QUINQUENNIAL’’ and inserting ‘‘ANNUAL’’; 

5 (2) by striking ‘‘beginning on the date that is 

6 5 years after the date on which the Director submits 

7 the report under paragraph (1), and every 5 years 

8 thereafter’’ and inserting ‘‘not later than January 

9 31, 2021, and annually thereafter’’; and 

10 (3) by inserting ‘‘required under paragraph 

11 (1)’’ before the period at the end. 

12 SEC. 908. REPORT ON OPEN-SOURCE SCIENCE AND TECH13 NOLOGY INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION AND 

14 ANALYSIS WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COM15 MUNITY. 

16 (a) REPORT.— 

17 (1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days 

18 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di19 rector of National Intelligence shall submit to the 

20 congressional intelligence committees, and publish on 

21 the internet website of the Office of the Director of 

22 National Intelligence, a report assessing the past 

23 and present efforts by the United States Govern24 ment to collect and analyze open-source science and 

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1 (2) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The report under 

2 paragraph (1) shall include a description of each of 

3 the following: 

4 (A) Current efforts by the intelligence 

5 community to collect and analyze open-source 

6 science and technology intelligence. 

7 (B) Current efforts by the People’s Repub8 lic of China to collect, analyze, and exploit 

9 open-source science and technology intelligence. 

10 (C) Historical funding and human 

11 resourcing trends with respect to efforts by the 

12 United States Government to collect and ana13 lyze open-source science and technology intel14 ligence. 

15 (D) The rationale for previous reductions 

16 by the United States Government in funding or 

17 staffing for efforts to collect and analyze open18 source science and technology intelligence. 

19 (E) Any lack of authorities or statutory 

20 limitations that impede efforts of the United 

21 States Government to collect and analyze open22 source science and technology intelligence. 

23 (F) The resources required for the United 

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1 existing, operations to collect and analyze open2 source science and technology intelligence. 

3 (G) Recommendations for expanding oper4 ations by the United States Government to col5 lect and analyze open-source science and tech6 nology, including an assessment of the feasi7 bility of— 

8 (i) establishing a funding program of 

9 record dedicated to open-source science 

10 and technology intelligence; 

11 (ii) co-locating open source-trained in12 telligence officers, intelligence officers with 

13 technical capabilities, and associated staff 

14 from different entities within and outside 

15 of the intelligence community; and 

16 (iii) training a dedicated open-source 

17 intelligence officer cadre composed of lan18 guage experts and science and technology 

19 experts. 

20 (3) FORM.—The report under paragraph (1) 

21 shall be submitted in unclassified form, but the re22 port submitted to the congressional intelligence com23 mittees may include a classified annex. 

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1 (1) PREPARATION OF REPORT.—The Director 

2 of National Intelligence shall convene an interagency 

3 working group (in this section referred to as the 

4 ‘‘working group’’) to prepare the report under sub5 section (a) and to provide the briefing under sub6 section (c). 

7 (2) MEMBERS.—The working group shall be 

8 composed of representatives from the following: 

9 (A) The Scientific and Technical Intel10 ligence Committee of the Office of the Director 

11 of National Intelligence. 

12 (B) The National Intelligence Officer for 

13 Science and Technology of the Office of the Di14 rector of National Intelligence. 

15 (C) The Central Intelligence Agency. 

16 (D) The Defense Intelligence Agency. 

17 (E) The Department of Defense. 

18 (F) The National Geospatial-Intelligence 

19 Agency. 

20 (G) The National Security Agency. 

21 (H) The Office of Intelligence and Analysis 

22 of the Department of Homeland Security. 

23 (I) The Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

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1 (K) The Office of Intelligence and Coun2 terintelligence of the Department of Energy. 

3 (L) Any other component of the United 

4 States Government, regardless of whether the 

5 component is an element of the intelligence 

6 community, that the Director determines— 

7 (i) collects open-source science and 

8 technology intelligence; and 

9 (ii) would materially assist in the ac10 tivities of the working group. 

11 (c) INTERIM BRIEFING.—Not later than 120 days 

12 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the working 

13 group shall provide to the congressional intelligence com14 mittees a briefing on the initial findings of the working 

15 group under subsection (a). 

16 (d) OPEN-SOURCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN17 TELLIGENCE DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘open18 source science and technology intelligence’’ means infor19 mation of intelligence value regarding scientific and tech20 nological developments that appears in print or electronic 

21 form, including radio, television, newspapers, journals, the 

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1 SEC. 909. INDEPENDENT STUDY ON OPEN-SOURCE INTEL2 LIGENCE. 

3 (a) STUDY.—The Director of National Intelligence 

4 shall seek to enter into an agreement with a federally 

5 funded research and development center or a nongovern6 mental entity to conduct a comprehensive study on the fu7 ture of the collection, processing, exploitation, analysis, 

8 dissemination, and evaluation of open-source intelligence 

9 by the intelligence community. The Director shall select 

10 such entity in consultation with the congressional intel11 ligence committees. 

12 (b) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The study under sub13 section (a) shall include the following: 

14 (1) Recommendations with respect to the gov15 ernance of open-source intelligence within the intel16 ligence community, including regarding— 

17 (A) whether such governance of open18 source intelligence should be assigned to a func19 tional manager or an executive agent, or use 

20 another governance structure; 

21 (B) which official of the intelligence com22 munity should serve as such a functional man23 ager, executive agent, or the leader of such 

24 other governance structure, and what authori25 ties the official should have in serving in such 

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1 (C) which official of the intelligence com2 munity should be responsible for conducting 

3 oversight by the executive branch for open4 source intelligence; 

5 (D) which elements of the intelligence com6 munity should retain capabilities to collect, 

7 process, exploit, and disseminate open-source 

8 intelligence; 

9 (E) how to effectively integrate such collec10 tion capabilities among the elements of the in11 telligence community; and 

12 (F) whether to establish a new agency as 

13 an element of the intelligence community dedi14 cated to open-source intelligence or to establish 

15 a fusion center to co-locate open-source intel16 ligence capabilities of the elements of the intel17 ligence community, including a discussion of the 

18 advantages and disadvantages of each such ap19 proach. 

20 (2) Recommendations regarding the require21 ments processes for open-source intelligence, includ22 ing with respect to— 

23 (A) the utility (or disutility) of a unified 

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1 intelligence for all of the intelligence commu2 nity; 

3 (B) what such a process might look like; 

4 (C) ways to integrate an open-source re5 quirements process into all-source collection 

6 management; and 

7 (D) ways that automation might be lever8 aged to facilitate open-source requirements and 

9 collection management. 

10 (3) An assessment of the value of rejuvenating 

11 a career service for a professional cadre of the intel12 ligence community that focuses on collecting and 

13 disseminating open-source intelligence and rec14 ommendations for such a rejuvenation. 

15 (4) Recommendations regarding the need to ad16 just any legal and policy frameworks (including any 

17 applicable guidelines of the Attorney General) that 

18 would facilitate the collection, retention, and dis19 semination of open-source intelligence while bal20 ancing customer needs with the privacy interests of 

21 United States persons. 

22 (5) An assessment of methods to use open23 source intelligence to support the operations of the 

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1 on when and how open-source intelligence should 

2 support such operations. 

3 (6) With respect to the data management of 

4 open-source intelligence, recommendations on pro5 posed data ingestion tools, scraping capabilities, and 

6 other tools and capabilities to collect, process, ex7 ploit, and analyze the volume of open-source intel8 ligence, including recommendations on how the intel9 ligence community can increase the speed and secu10 rity with which the intelligence community adopts 

11 open-source technology and unclassified commercial 

12 products. 

13 (7) Any other matters the Director or the entity 

14 selected to conduct the study determines appro15 priate. 

16 (c) COOPERATION.—The Director shall make avail17 able to the entity selected to conduct the study under sub18 section (a) the necessary information and materials to con19 duct the study, including with respect to— 

20 (1) accessing secure workspaces; 

21 (2) accessing directives and policy guidance of 

22 the intelligence community and other policy docu23 ments regarding the governance and execution of 

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1 (3) reviewing technological systems used to con2 duct open-source intelligence collection; 

3 (4) interviewing senior personnel of the intel4 ligence community, including such personnel with re5 sponsibility for the open-source intelligence mission 

6 of the intelligence community; and 

7 (5) ensuring that each head of an element of 

8 the intelligence community provides the cooperation 

9 described in this subsection. 

10 (d) CONSULTATION.—The entity selected to conduct 

11 the study under subsection (a) shall consult with the con12 gressional intelligence committees before beginning to con13 duct such study. 

14 (e) REPORT.—Not later than 270 days after the date 

15 of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit 

16 to the congressional intelligence committees a report con17 taining the study under subsection (a), without change. 

18 The report shall be unclassified, but may include a classi19 fied annex. 

20 SEC. 910. SURVEY ON OPEN SOURCE ENTERPRISE. 

21 (a) SURVEY.—The Director of the Central Intel22 ligence Agency (as the open source functional manager for 

23 the intelligence community), in consultation with the Di24 rector of National Intelligence and any other head of an 

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1 of the Central Intelligence Agency determines appropriate, 

2 shall conduct a survey to measure the satisfaction of cus3 tomers of open-source intelligence with the Open Source 

4 Enterprise of the Central Intelligence Agency. 

5 (b) PURPOSE.—The Director shall ensure that the 

6 survey under subsection (a)— 

7 (1) evaluates which types of open-source intel8 ligence supports the missions of the customers of 

9 such intelligence, regardless of whether the cus10 tomers are elements of the intelligence community 

11 and regardless of whether the customers are receiv12 ing such intelligence from the Open Source Enter13 prise; 

14 (2) evaluates how responsive the Open Source 

15 Enterprise is to the missions of the elements of the 

16 intelligence community and the other customers of 

17 the Open Source Enterprise; 

18 (3) enables the Open Source Enterprise to set 

19 strategic priorities; and 

20 (4) enables Congress to better oversee the stra21 tegic direction of the Open Source Enterprise and to 

22 provide support to the collection and analysis of 

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1 (1) ASSESSMENT.—The survey under sub2 section (a) shall include qualitative and quantitative 

3 questions designed to assess the following: 

4 (A) The value of support provided by the 

5 Open Source Enterprise to the mission of the 

6 customer taking the survey. 

7 (B) The accessibility of the products of the 

8 Open Source Enterprise. 

9 (C) The frequency that such products are 

10 used in accomplishing the mission of the cus11 tomer. 

12 (D) The responsiveness of the Open Source 

13 Enterprise to tasking requests. 

14 (E) Areas in which the Open Source En15 terprise could improve. 

16 (F) The in-house open-source intelligence 

17 capabilities of the customer taking the survey, 

18 including— 

19 (i) a description of such capabilities; 

20 (ii) how such capabilities are tailored 

21 to the mission of the customer; 

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1 (iv) whether and to what extent the 

2 customer coordinates with the Open Source 

3 Enterprise regarding such capabilities. 

4 (2) SURVEY ANSWERS.—A customer who re5 ceives the survey under subsection (a) shall make all 

6 reasonable efforts to respond fully and frankly to the 

7 survey. 

8 (d) DESIGN METHODOLOGY.—In carrying out sub9 section (a), the Director of Central Intelligence shall seek 

10 advice regarding design methodology for customer satis11 faction surveys from— 

12 (1) experts in survey design of the Central In13 telligence Agency and the Office of the Director of 

14 National Intelligence; and 

15 (2) senior executives of the Bureau of Intel16 ligence and Research of the Department of State 

17 who conduct a survey similar to the survey under 

18 subsection (a). 

19 (e) REPORT.— 

20 (1) STRATEGY.—Not later than 180 days after 

21 the date on which the survey is completed under 

22 subsection (a), the Director shall submit to the con23 gressional intelligence committees a report on the 

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1 based on the results of the survey, including expla2 nations of how the Open Source Enterprise will— 

3 (A) build off the successes of the Open 

4 Source Enterprise; and 

5 (B) fill gaps in the collection, production, 

6 analysis, or dissemination of open-source intel7 ligence. 

8 (2) FORM.—The report under paragraph (1) 

9 shall be submitted in classified form. 

10 (3) BRIEFING.—Not later than 30 days after 

11 the date on which the Director submits to the con12 gressional intelligence committees the report under 

13 paragraph (1), the Director shall provide to such 

14 committees a briefing on the strategic direction of 

15 the Open Source Enterprise. 

16 SEC. 911. INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT AND REPORTS ON 

17 VIOLENT TRANSNATIONAL WHITE SUPREMA18 CIST EXTREMISM. 

19 (a) INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT.— 

20 (1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 120 days 

21 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di22 rector of National Intelligence, acting through the 

23 Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, in 

24 coordination with the Director of the Federal Bu25 reau of Investigation and the Under Secretary of 


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1 Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, 

2 and in consultation with other relevant Federal de3 partments and agencies, shall submit to the appro4 priate congressional committees an intelligence as5 sessment on threats to the United States associated 

6 with foreign violent White supremacist extremist or7 ganizations. 

8 (2) ELEMENTS.—The assessment under para9 graph (1) shall include the following: 

10 (A) A list of foreign violent White su11 premacist extremist organizations. 

12 (B) With respect to each such organiza13 tion— 

14 (i) an overview of the membership, 

15 ideology, and activities; 

16 (ii) a description of any transnational 

17 links to the United States or United States 

18 persons; 

19 (iii) a description of the leadership, 

20 plans, intentions, and capabilities; 

21 (iv) whether (and if so, to what ex22 tent) foreign governments or their proxies 

23 provide any manner of support to such or24 ganizations, including a list of each such 

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1 (v) a description of the composition 

2 and characteristics of the members and 

3 support networks, including whether (and 

4 if so, to what extent) the members are also 

5 a part of a military, security service, or po6 lice; 

7 (vi) a description of financing and 

8 other forms of material support; 

9 (vii) an assessment of trends and pat10 terns relative to communications, travel, 

11 and training (including whether and to 

12 what extent the organization is engaged in 

13 or facilitating military or paramilitary 

14 training); 

15 (viii) an assessment of the 

16 radicalization and recruitment, including 

17 an analysis of the extremist messaging mo18 tivating members and supporters; and 

19 (ix) whether (and if so, to what ex20 tent) foreign governments have sufficient 

21 laws and policies to counter threats to the 

22 United States associated with the organi23 zation, including best practices and gaps. 

24 (C) An assessment of the status and extent 

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1 ships, foreign police cooperation, and mutual 

2 legal assistance between the United States and 

3 foreign governments relative to countering 

4 threats to the United States associated with 

5 foreign violent White supremacist extremist or6 ganizations. 

7 (D) An assessment of intelligence gaps and 

8 recommendations on how to remedy such gaps. 

9 (E) An opportunity analysis regarding 

10 countering such threats, including, at a min11 imum, with respect to mitigating and disrupting 

12 the transnational nexus. 

13 (3) STANDARDS.—The intelligence assessment 

14 under paragraph (1) shall be conducted in a manner 

15 that meets the analytic integrity and tradecraft 

16 standards of the intelligence community. 

17 (4) FORM AND PUBLIC RELEASE.—The intel18 ligence assessment under paragraph (1) shall be 

19 submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 

20 classified annex in electronic form that is fully in21 dexed and searchable. In carrying out this para22 graph, the officials specified in paragraph (1) 

23 shall— 

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1 (B) make the unclassified assessment pub2 licly available on the internet websites of the of3 ficials— 

4 (i) by not later than 30 days after 

5 submission to the appropriate congres6 sional committees; and 

7 (ii) in an electronic format that is 

8 fully indexed and searchable; and 

9 (C) ensure that the assessment is drafted 

10 in a way to maximize the ability to share the 

11 assessment, including the classified annex, with 

12 the entities under paragraph (5). 

13 (5) SHARING.—Consistent with the protection 

14 of classified information, the Director of National 

15 Intelligence, acting through the Director of the Na16 tional Counterterrorism Center, in coordination with 

17 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 

18 and the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for 

19 Intelligence and Analysis, shall share the intelligence 

20 assessment under paragraph (1) with— 

21 (A) appropriate Federal departments and 

22 agencies; 

23 (B) Joint Terrorism Task Forces and the 

24 Domestic Terrorism-Hate Crimes Fusion Cell 

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1 (C) State, local, and Tribal law enforce2 ment officials, including officials who operate 

3 within State, local, and regional fusion centers 

4 through the Department of Homeland Security 

5 State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Ini6 tiative established in accordance with section 

7 210A of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 

8 U.S.C. 124h); and 

9 (D) appropriate foreign governments, in10 cluding foreign intelligence services and foreign 

11 police, and international institutions, that part12 ner with the United States on countering 

13 threats associated with foreign violent White 

14 supremacist extremist organizations. 

15 (b) REPORT.— 

16 (1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 150 days 

17 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di18 rector of National Intelligence (acting through the 

19 Director of the National Counterterrorism Center), 

20 in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Sec21 retary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the 

22 Secretary of Homeland Security, and in a manner 

23 consistent with the authorities and responsibilities of 

24 such Secretary or Director, shall submit to the ap25 propriate congressional committees a report on the 


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1 use of Federal laws, regulations, and policies by the 

2 Federal Government to counter threats to the 

3 United States and United States persons associated 

4 with foreign violent White supremacist extremist or5 ganizations. 

6 (2) ELEMENTS.—The report under paragraph 

7 shall include the following: 

8 (A) An identification, description, and as9 sessment of the use and efficacy of, Federal 

10 laws, regulations, and policies used by the Fed11 eral Government to address threats to the 

12 United States and United States persons asso13 ciated with foreign violent White supremacist 

14 extremist organizations, including pursuant 

15 to— 

16 (i) section 1016 of the Intelligence 

17 Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 

18 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485) and section 119 of 

19 the National Security Act of 1949 (50 

20 U.S.C. 3056), particularly with respect to 

21 the coordination and integration of all in22 struments of national power; 

23 (ii) Executive Order 12333 (50 U.S.C. 

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1 (iii) the designation of foreign ter2 rorist organizations under section 219 of 

3 the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 

4 U.S.C. 1189); 

5 (iv) the designation of specially des6 ignated terrorists, specially designated 

7 global terrorists, or specially designated 

8 nationals and blocked persons, pursuant to 

9 Executive Orders 13886, 13372, and 

10 13224 and parts 594, 595, 596, and 597 

11 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations; 

12 (v) National Security Presidential 

13 Memorandums 7 and 9, particularly with 

14 respect to the sharing of terrorism infor15 mation and screening and vetting activi16 ties; and 

17 (vi) any other applicable Federal laws, 

18 regulations, or policies. 

19 (B) An assessment of whether (and if so, 

20 to what extent and why) such Federal laws, 

21 regulations, and policies are sufficient to 

22 counter such threats, including a description of 

23 any gaps and specific examples to illustrate 

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1 (C) Recommendations regarding how to 

2 remedy the gaps under subparagraph (B). 

3 (3) PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSESS4 MENT.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 

5 the enactment of this Act, the Privacy and Civil Lib6 erties Oversight Board, in consultation with the civil 

7 liberties and privacy officers of the Federal depart8 ments and agencies the Board determines appro9 priate, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 

10 committees a report containing— 

11 (A) an assessment of the impacts on the 

12 privacy and civil liberties of United States per13 sons concerning the use or recommended use of 

14 any Federal laws, regulations, and policies spec15 ified in paragraph (2); and 

16 (B) recommendations on options to develop 

17 protections to mitigate such impacts. 

18 (4) FORM AND PUBLIC RELEASE.—The reports 

19 under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be submitted in 

20 unclassified form, but may include a classified annex 

21 in electronic form that is fully indexed and search22 able. In carrying out this paragraph, the officials re23 sponsible for submitting such reports shall— 

24 (A) ensure that the reports are unclassified 

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1 (B) make the unclassified reports publicly 

2 available on the internet websites of the offi3 cials— 

4 (i) by not later than 30 days after 

5 submission to the appropriate congres6 sional committees; and 

7 (ii) in an electronic format that is 

8 fully indexed and searchable. 

9 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

10 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT11 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com12 mittees’’ means— 

13 (A) the Permanent Select Committee on 

14 Intelligence, the Committee on Homeland Secu15 rity, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the 

16 Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 

17 Representatives; and 

18 (B) the Select Committee on Intelligence, 

19 the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov20 ernmental Affairs, the Committee on Foreign 

21 Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of 

22 the Senate. 

23 (2) FOREIGN VIOLENT WHITE SUPREMACIST

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1 means an organization, such as a neo-Nazi or racist 

2 skinhead group or militia, with a substantial compo3 nent based outside the United States, that is en4 gaged in the planning or execution of racially or eth5 nically motivated acts of terrorism or other targeted 

6 violence motivated by White supremacist extremism, 

7 particularly against immigrants or individuals per8 ceived to be immigrants, African Americans or other 

9 people of African descent, Jews, Muslims, or other 

10 people perceived to be ethnic minorities or otherwise 

11 not perceived to be White. 

12 (3) TERRORISM INFORMATION.—The term ‘‘ter13 rorism information’’ has the meaning given that 

14 term in section 1016(a) of the Intelligence Reform 

15 and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 

16 485(a)). 

17 (4) UNITED STATES PERSON.—The term 

18 ‘‘United States person’’ has the meaning given that 

19 term in section 105A(c) of the National Security Act 

20 of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3039). 

21 SEC. 912. WIRELESS SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATION GRANT 

22 PROGRAM. 

23 (a) IN GENERAL.—From amounts made available 

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1 ment of this Act, make grants on a competitive basis to 

2 support the deployment and use of Open RAN 5G Net3 works throughout the United States by— 

4 (1) promoting the use of technology, including 

5 software, hardware, and microprocessing technology, 

6 that will enhance competitiveness in the supply 

7 chains of Open RAN 5G Networks; 

8 (2) accelerating the deployment of Open Net9 work Equipment; 

10 (3) promoting the use of Open Network Equip11 ment; 

12 (4) establishing objective criteria that can be 

13 used to determine if equipment meets the definition 

14 of Open Network Equipment; 

15 (5) promoting the inclusion of security features 

16 that enhance the integrity and availability of Open 

17 Network Equipment; or 

18 (6) promoting the application of network func19 tion virtualization to facilitate the deployment of 

20 Open RAN 5G Networks and a more diverse vendor 

21 market. 

22 (b) GRANT CRITERIA.—The Assistant Secretary, in 

23 consultation with the Commission, the Director of the Na24 tional Institute of Standards and Technology, the Sec25 retary of Homeland Security, the Director of the Defense 


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1 Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Director of 

2 the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity of 

3 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, shall 

4 establish the criteria under which the Assistant Secretary 

5 shall award a grant under subsection (a). 

6 (c) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.— 

7 (1) ANNUAL REPORT ON GRANTS MADE.—For 

8 each fiscal year for which amounts are available to 

9 make grants under subsection (a), the Assistant Sec10 retary shall submit to the relevant committees of 

11 Congress a report that includes, with respect to that 

12 fiscal year— 

13 (A) a description of— 

14 (i) to whom grants under subsection 

15 (a) were made, the amount thereof, and 

16 criteria used to award such grants; and 

17 (ii) the progress the Assistant Sec18 retary has made in meeting the objectives 

19 described in subsection (a) of the grant 

20 program under this section; and 

21 (B) any additional information that the 

22 Assistant Secretary determines appropriate. 

23 (2) REPORT ON 5G NETWORK SUPPLY CHAIN.— 

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1 mit to the relevant committees of Congress a written 

2 report— 

3 (A) that includes recommendations on pro4 moting the competitiveness and sustainability of 

5 trusted Open RAN 5G Networks; and 

6 (B) identifying whether any additional au7 thorities are needed by the Assistant Secretary 

8 to facilitate the timely adoption of Open Net9 work Equipment, including the authority to 

10 provide loans, loan guarantees, and other forms 

11 of credit extension that would maximize the use 

12 of grant amounts awarded under this section. 

13 (d) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 

14 (1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Assistant Secretary 

15 shall establish an Advisory Committee to advise the 

16 Assistant Secretary in the manner described in para17 graph (3). 

18 (2) COMPOSITION.—The Advisory Committee 

19 established under paragraph (1) shall be composed 

20 of— 

21 (A) representatives from— 

22 (i) the Commission; 

23 (ii) the Defense Advanced Research 

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1 (iii) the Intelligence Advanced Re2 search Projects Activity of the Office of 

3 the Director of National Intelligence; 

4 (iv) the National Institute of Stand5 ards and Technology; 

6 (v) the Department of State; 

7 (vi) the National Science Foundation; 

8 and 

9 (vii) the Department of Homeland Se10 curity; and 

11 (B) other representatives from the private 

12 and public sectors, at the discretion of the As13 sistant Secretary. 

14 (3) DUTIES.—The Advisory Committee estab15 lished under paragraph (1) shall be used to advise 

16 the Assistant Secretary on technology developments 

17 to help inform— 

18 (A) the strategic direction of the grant 

19 program established under subsection (a); and 

20 (B) efforts of the Federal Government to 

21 promote a more secure, diverse, sustainable, 

22 and competitive supply chain for Open RAN 5G 

23 Networks. 

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1 (1) AMOUNT AUTHORIZED.—There is author2 ized to be appropriated to make grants under sub3 section (a) $750,000,000 for fiscal years 2021 

4 through 2031. 

5 (2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts made available 

6 under paragraph (1) shall remain available through 

7 fiscal year 2031. 

8 (f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

9 (1) 3GPP.—The term ‘‘3GPP’’ means the Third 

10 Generation Partnership Project. 

11 (2) 5G NETWORK.—The term ‘‘5G network’’ 

12 means a radio network as described by 3GPP Re13 lease 15 or higher, or any successor network. 

14 (3) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist15 ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 

16 Commerce for Communications and Information. 

17 (4) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 

18 means the Federal Communications Commission. 

19 (5) OPEN NETWORK EQUIPMENT.—The term 

20 ‘‘Open Network Equipment’’ means equipment that 

21 follows a set of open standards (such as O–RAN 

22 standards or the Open Radio Access Network ap23 proach to standardization, adopted by the O–RAN 

24 Alliance, 3GPP, or other organizations) and open 

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1 operability, such that the equipment may be inte2 grated into the Radio Access Networks of an Open 

3 RAN 5G Network. 

4 (6) OPEN RAN 5G NETWORK.—The term ‘‘Open 

5 RAN 5G Network’’ means a 5G network that follows 

6 a set of open standards (such as O–RAN standards 

7 or the Open Radio Access Network approach to 

8 standardization, adopted by the O–RAN Alliance, 

9 3GPP, or other organizations) and open interfaces 

10 for multi-vendor network equipment interoperability. 

11 (7) RELEVANT COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 

12 The term ‘‘relevant committees of Congress’’ 

13 means— 

14 (A) the Committee on Energy and Com15 merce of the House of Representatives; 

16 (B) the Permanent Select Committee on 

17 Intelligence of the House of Representatives; 

18 (C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 

19 the House of Representatives; 

20 (D) the Committee on Homeland Security 

21 of the House of Representatives; 

22 (E) the Committee on Armed Services of 

23 the House of Representatives; 

24 (F) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

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1 (G) the Select Committee on Intelligence of 

2 the Senate; 

3 (H) the Committee on Foreign Relations 

4 of the Senate; 

5 (I) the Committee on Homeland Security 

6 and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and 

7 (J) the Committee on Armed Services of 

8 the Senate. 

9 SEC. 913. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THIRD OPTION 

10 FOUNDATION. 

11 It is the sense of the Congress that the work of the 

12 Third Option Foundation to heal, help, and honor mem13 bers of the special operations community of the Central 

14 Intelligence Agency and their families is invaluable. 

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