‘‘(A) determine the domestic information 
collection requirements for information relevant 
to the homeland security mission; and 
‘‘(B) prioritize the collection and use of 
such information. 
‘‘(3) COORDINATION OF COLLECTION REQUIRE-
MENTS AND MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.—
‘‘(A) COORDINATION WITH COUNTERPART 
AGENCIES.—The Chairman shall ensure that 
the Information Requirements Board carries 
out its activities in a manner that is fully co-
ordinated with Board’s counterpart entities. 
‘‘(B) PARTICIPATION
OF
COUNTERPART 
ENTITIES.—The Chairman and the Director of 
Central Intelligence shall ensure that each 
counterpart entity—
‘‘(i) has at least one representative on 
the Information Requirement Board and 
on every sub-component of the Board; and 
‘‘(ii) meets jointly with the Informa-
tion Requirements Board (and, as appro-
priate, with any sub-component of the 
Board) as often as the Chairman and the 
Director of Central Intelligence determine 
appropriate.
‘‘(C) COUNTERPART ENTITY DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘counterpart entity’ 
means an entity of the Federal Government 
that is responsible for foreign intelligence collec-
tion requirements and management, including 
the Office of the Deputy Director of Central In-
telligence for Community Management and sen-
ior collection managers of each of the agencies 
under the National Foreign Intelligence Pro-
gram (as defined in section 3(6) of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(6)). 
‘‘(d) MEETINGS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Information Require-
ments Board shall meet regularly at such times and 
places as its Chairman may direct. 
‘‘(2) INVITED REPRESENTATIVES.—The chair-
man may invite representatives of Federal agencies 
not specified in subsection (b) to attend meetings of 
the Information Requirements Board.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to sec-
tion 103 the following new item:
‘‘104. Homeland Security Information Requirements Board.’’.
SEC. 102. ACCESS TO INFORMATION. 
(a) IMPROVEMENTS TO SECURE COMMUNICATIONS 
AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE.— 
Paragraph (14) of section 201(d) of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121(d)) is amended by striking 
‘‘in furtherance of the responsibilities under this section, 
and to disseminate information acquired and analyzed by 
the Department, as appropriate’’ and inserting ‘‘with max-
imum flexibility and speed, in furtherance of the respon-
sibilities under this section, and to ensure the simulta-
neous dissemination of such data and information to all 
appropriate personnel’’. 
(b) IMPROVEMENT IN ACCESS TO INFORMATION BY 
DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL.—Subsection (a) of section 
202 of such Act (6 U.S.C. 122) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) UTILIZATION.—Subject to the require-
ments of section 201(d)(12), the Secretary may pro-
vide access to any of the information and materials 
described in this subsection to any personnel of the 
Department that the Secretary determines requires 
such access to discharge duties assigned to such per-
sonnel.’’. 
(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROCEDURES FOR AUTO-
MATIC AND IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO