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(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in co-
ordination with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the 
congressional committees specified in subsection (d) a re-
port on the following: 
(1) A detailed description of the intent and pur-
pose of the RSCC concept. 
(2) Defined and validated requirements justi-
fying the establishment of RSCCs or similar entities 
within each geographic combatant command, to in-
clude how such centers have been coordinated and 
de-conflicted with existing regional and multilateral 
frameworks or approaches. 
(3) An explanation of why existing regional cen-
ters and multilateral frameworks cannot satisfy the 
requirements and needs of the Department of De-
fense and geographic combatant commands. 
(4) Cost estimates across the Future Years De-
fense Program for such centers, to include estimates 
of contributions of nations participating in such cen-
ters. 
(5) Any other matters that the Secretary of De-
fense or Secretary of State determines appropriate. 
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(d) SPECIFIED CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—The 
congressional committees referred to in subsection (c) 
are— 
(1) the congressional defense committees; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives. 
SEC. 1246. ADDITIONAL REPORTS ON MILITARY AND SECU-
RITY DEVELOPMENTS INVOLVING THE DEMO-
CRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA. 
(a) REPORT.—Subsection (a) of section 1236 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 
(Public Law 112–81; 125 Stat. 1641), as amended by sec-
tion 1292 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2013 (Public Law 112–239; 126 Stat. 2042), 
is further amended by striking ‘‘November 1, 2012, and 
November 1, 2013,’’ and inserting ‘‘November 1, 2013, 
November 1, 2015, and November 1, 2017,’’. 
(b) UPDATE.—Section 1236 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-
section (d); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
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‘‘(c) UPDATE.—The Secretary of Defense shall revise 
or supplement the most recent report submitted pursuant 
to subsection (a) if, in the Secretary’s estimation, interim 
events or developments occurring in a period between re-
ports required under subsection (a) warrant revision or 
supplement.’’. 
SEC. 1247. AMENDMENTS TO ANNUAL REPORT UNDER 
ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT ACT. 
(a) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 
Section 403 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2593a) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives and to the chairman 
of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-
ate’’ and inserting ‘‘the appropriate congressional 
committees’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(e) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’ means— 
‘‘(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence of the Senate; and 
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‘‘(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
Representatives.’’. 
(b) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING.—Section 403 of the 
Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 U.S.C. 2593a), 
as amended by subsection (a) of this section, is further 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (f); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(e) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING.—Not later than 
May 15 of each year, the President shall provide to such 
committees a briefing on such report.’’. 
SEC. 1248. LIMITATION ON FUNDS TO PROVIDE THE RUS-
SIAN FEDERATION WITH ACCESS TO CERTAIN 
MISSILE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY. 
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 
otherwise made available for each of the fiscal years 2014 
through 2018 for the Department of Defense may be used 
to provide the Russian Federation with access to informa-
tion regarding— 
(1) missile defense technology of the United 
States relating to hit-to-kill technology; or 
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(2) telemetry data with respect to missile de-
fense interceptors or target vehicles. 
SEC. 1249. REPORTS ON ACTIONS TO REDUCE SUPPORT OF 
BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAMS OF CHINA, 
SYRIA, IRAN, AND NORTH KOREA. 
(a) DISCLOSURE OF AND REPORT ON RUSSIAN SUP-
PORT
OF BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAMS
OF CHINA, 
SYRIA, IRAN, AND NORTH KOREA.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall seek to 
encourage the Government of the Russian Federa-
tion to disclose any support by the Russian Federa-
tion or Russian entities for the ballistic missile pro-
grams of the People’s Republic of China, Syria, 
Iran, or North Korea. 
(2) REPORT REQUIRED.—The President shall 
submit to the congressional defense committees a 
semi-annual report on any disclosure by the Govern-
ment of the Russian Federation of any such support 
during the preceding six-month period. 
(3) INITIAL
REPORT.—The initial report re-
quired by paragraph (2) shall be submitted not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act and in addition to addressing any such sup-
port during the preceding six-month period shall also 
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address any such support during the 10-year period 
ending on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(b) COOPERATION OF RUSSIA AND CHINA TO RE-
DUCE TECHNOLOGY AND EXPERTISE THAT SUPPORTS 
THE BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAMS
OF SYRIA, IRAN, 
NORTH KOREA, AND OTHER COUNTRIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, in 
coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall de-
velop a plan to seek and secure the cooperation of 
the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of 
China to verifiably reduce the spread of technology 
and expertise that supports the ballistic missile pro-
grams of the Syria, Iran, North Korea, or any other 
country that the Secretary of State determines has 
a ballistic missile program. 
(2) REPORT AND BRIEFINGS REQUIRED.—The 
Secretary of State, in coordination with the Sec-
retary of Defense and the Director of National Intel-
ligence, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act a report describing the 
plan required in paragraph (1) and provide briefings 
to such committees annually thereafter until 2018 
on the progress and results of these efforts. 
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(3) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means— 
(A) the congressional defense committees; 
(B) the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives 
and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
Senate; and 
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 
(c) FORM.—Each report required by this section shall 
be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a clas-
sified annex, if necessary. 
SEC. 1250. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATIONS RELATING TO 
STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—With respect to an agreement on 
the status of forces between the United States and a for-
eign country, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, shall notify the appropriate 
congressional committees not later than 15 days after the 
date on which the agreement is signed, renewed, amended 
or otherwise revised, or terminated. 
(b) BRIEFINGS REQUIRED.—Not later than February 
1 of each calendar year, the Secretary of Defense, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of State, shall provide a brief-
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ing to the appropriate congressional committees on the fol-
lowing: 
(1) Status of forces agreements that the United 
States will seek to enter into in such calendar year. 
(2) Status of forces agreements that have ex-
pired and which the United States will seek to renew 
in such calendar year. 
(3) Amendments to status of forces agreements 
that the Secretary of Defense determines to be sub-
stantial and are likely to be negotiated in such cal-
endar year. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 
In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(1) the congressional defense committees; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect 
on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply 
with respect to an agreement described in subsection (a) 
that is signed on or after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
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SEC. 1251. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE CONFLICT IN 
SYRIA. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The conflict in Syria began in March 2011. 
(2) As of February 2013, the United Nations 
High Commissioner for Human Rights estimated 
that approximately 70,000 Syrians have been killed 
during the conflict. 
(3) According to the United Nations High Com-
missioner for Refugees, over 1,200,000 Syrians are 
registered refugees or persons of concern including, 
over 66,000 in Egypt, over 145,000 in Iraq, over 
461,000 in Jordan, over 462,000 in Lebanon, and 
over 329,000 in Turkey. 
(4) Jabhat al-Nusra, a group located in Syria 
and categorized as an affiliate of al-Qaeda by the in-
telligence community, presents a direct threat to the 
interests of the United States and could present a 
direct threat to the United States. 
(5) On August 19, 2011, President Obama 
stated: ‘‘The future of Syria must be determined by 
its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is stand-
ing in their way. We have consistently said that 
President Assad must lead a democratic transition 
or get out of the way. He has not led. For the sake 
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of the Syrian people, the time has come for Presi-
dent Assad to step aside.’’. 
(6) The United States is deploying 200 military 
personnel from the headquarters of the 1st Armored 
Division to Jordan in order to ‘‘improve readiness 
and prepare for a number of scenarios’’. 
(7) In a letter from Miguel Rodriguez, the As-
sistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, to 
Senators McCain and Levin, dated April 25, 2013, 
it stated that ‘‘our intelligence community does as-
sess with varying degrees of confidence that the Syr-
ian regime has used chemical weapons on a small 
scale in Syria, specifically, the chemical agent sarin 
* * * We do believe that any use of chemical weap-
ons in Syria would very likely have originated with 
the Assad regime * * * the President has made it 
clear that the use of chemical weapons—or the 
transfer of chemical weapons to terrorist groups—is 
a red line for the United States of America’’. 
(8) In a press conference with Israel Prime 
Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama 
stated: ‘‘I have made clear that the use of chemical 
weapons is a game-changer’’. 
(9) In August 2012, during a White House 
press conference, President Obama stated: ‘‘We have 
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been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to 
other players on the ground, that a redline for us is 
we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons 
moving around or being utilized.’’. 
(10) It is a threat to the vital national security 
interest of the United States if terrorist groups, 
such as al-Qaeda, obtain chemical or biological mate-
rial or weapons in Syria. 
(11) At a Pentagon press conference on May 2, 
2013, Secretary Hagel confirmed that the Obama 
Administration is re-thinking its opposition to arm-
ing the rebels. 
(12) On April 11, 2013, responding to a ques-
tion about the need for a supplemental funding re-
quest for any potential United States military effort 
in Syria, Secretary Hagel stated: ‘‘Yes, I think it is 
pretty clear that a supplemental would be re-
quired.’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) President Obama should have a comprehen-
sive policy and should ensure robust contingency 
planning to secure United States’ interests in Syria; 
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