scientific community, including atmospheric and climate 
studies, security studies, conflict studies, economic assess-
ments, and environmental security studies, the Secretaries 
of Defense, State, Treasury, Commerce, Energy, Agri-
culture, and Transportation, the Federal Reserve Board, 
and the United States Trade Representative, the Adminis-
trator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric 
Administration, the Administrator of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, and, if appropriate, 
multilateral institutions and allies of the United States 
that have conducted significant research on global climate 
change. 
(d) FORM.—The National Intelligence Estimate re-
quired by this section shall be submitted in unclassified 
form, to the extent consistent with the protection of intel-
ligence sources and methods, and include unclassified key 
judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate. Such 
National Intelligence Estimate may include a classified 
annex. 
SEC. 4. RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTI-
MATE. 
(a) REPORT BY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.—Not 
later than 270 days after the date that the National Intel-
ligence Estimate required by section 3 is submitted to 
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Congress, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the the 
Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed 
Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence of the United States House of Representatives and 
Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed 
Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
United States Senate a report on— 
(1) the projected impact on the military instal-
lations and capabilities of the United States of the 
effects of global climate change as assessed in the 
National Intelligence Estimate; 
(2) the projected impact on United States mili-
tary operations of the effects of global climate 
change described in the National Intelligence Esti-
mate; and 
(3) recommended research and analysis needed 
to further assess the impacts on the military of glob-
al climate change. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NEXT QUADREN-
NIAL DEFENSE REVIEW.—It is the sense of Congress that 
the Secretary of Defense should address the findings of 
the National Intelligence Estimate required by section 3 
regarding the impact of global climate change and poten-
tial implications of such impact on the Armed Forces and 
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for the size, composition, and capabilities of Armed Forces 
in the next Quadrennial Defense Review. 
(c) REPORT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE.—Not 
later than 270 days after the date that the National Intel-
ligence Estimate required by section 3 is submitted to 
Congress, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations, the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the United States House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Foreign 
Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
United States Senate a report that addresses— 
(1) the potential for large migration flows in 
countries of strategic interest or humanitarian con-
cern as a response to changes in climate and the im-
plications for United States security interests; and 
(2) the potential for diplomatic opportunities 
and challenges facing United States policy makers 
as a result of social, economic, or political responses 
of groups or nations to global changing climate. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF RESEARCH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense is au-
thorized to carry out research on the impacts of global 
climate change on military operations, doctrine, organiza-
tion, training, material, logistics, personnel, and facilities 
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and the actions needed to address those impacts. Such re-
search may include— 
(1) the use of war gaming and other analytical 
exercises; 
(2) analysis of the implications for United 
States defense capabilities of large-scale Arctic sea- 
ice melt and broader changes in Arctic climate; 
(3) analysis of the implications for United 
States defense capabilities of abrupt climate change; 
(4) analysis of the implications of the findings 
derived from the National Intelligence Estimate re-
quired in section 3 Act for United States defense ca-
pabilities; 
(5) analysis of the strategic implications for 
United States defense capabilities of direct physical 
threats to the United States posed by extreme 
weather events such as hurricanes; and 
(6) analysis of the existing policies of the De-
partment of Defense to assess the adequacy of the 
Department’s protections against climate risks to 
United States capabilities and military interests in 
foreign countries. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date 
that the National Intelligence Estimate required by sec-
tion 3 is submitted to Congress, the Secretary of Defense 
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