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SEC. 1624. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY RELATING TO JURISDICTION 
OVER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FACILITIES FOR INTEL-
LIGENCE COLLECTION OR SPECIAL OPERATIONS ACTIVI-
TIES ABROAD. 
Section 926(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 112–81; 125 Stat. 1541) is amended, 
in the matter before paragraph (1)— 
(1) by striking ‘‘September 30, 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2017’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2016’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 
2018’’. 
SEC. 1625. ASSESSMENT AND LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS 
FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS OF 
UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND AND 
SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES. 
(a) ASSESSMENT.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of Defense, acting 
through the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low 
Intensity Conflict, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence 
Agency, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 
and the Comptroller General of the United States an assess-
ment of the intelligence activities and programs of United 
States Special Operations Command and special operations 
forces. 
(2) INCLUSIONS.—The assessment under paragraph (1) shall 
include each of the following elements: 
(A) An overall strategy defining such intelligence activi-
ties and programs, including definitions of intelligence 
activities and programs carried out by special operations 
forces and how such activities and programs relate to 
conventional military intelligence and the capabilities of 
the Armed Forces. 
(B) The oversight roles and responsibilities of the 
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Inten-
sity Conflict, and the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense 
for Intelligence Oversight with respect to the employment 
of special operations forces for intelligence activities and 
programs, including an analysis of any oversight limita-
tions or gaps. 
(C) A strategy and roadmap of United States Special 
Operations Command intelligence, surveillance, and recon-
naissance programs and requirements, including enabling 
capabilities provided by the Armed Forces, for special oper-
ations across the future years defense program. 
(D) A comprehensive description of Joint Staff-vali-
dated current and anticipated future requirements for the 
intelligence activities and programs of each geographic 
combatant commander that are likely to be fulfilled by 
special operations forces, including those that can only 
be addressed by special operations forces, programs, or 
capabilities. 
(E) Validated current and expected future United 
States Special Operations Command force structure 
requirements necessary to meet near-, mid-, and long-term
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special operations intelligence activities and programs of 
the geographic combatant commanders. 
(F) A comprehensive review and assessment of statu-
tory authorities, and Department and interagency policies, 
including limitations, for special operations forces intel-
ligence activities and programs. 
(G) A cost estimate of special operations intelligence 
activities and programs, including an estimate of the costs 
of the period of the current future years defense program, 
including a description of all rules and assumptions used 
to develop the cost estimates. 
(H) A copy of any memoranda of understanding or 
memoranda of agreement between the Department of 
Defense and other departments or agencies of the United 
States Government, or between components of the Depart-
ment of Defense that are required to implement objectives 
of special operations intelligence activities and programs. 
(I) Any other matters the Secretary considers appro-
priate. 
(3) FORM.—The assessment required under paragraph (1) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
classified annex. 
(4) COMPTROLLER
GENERAL
REVIEW.—Not later than 60 
days after the date on which the assessment required under 
paragraph (1) is submitted, the Comptroller General shall 
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a review 
of such assessment. Such review shall include an assessment 
of— 
(A) the extent to which the assessment required under 
paragraph (1) addressed the elements required under para-
graph (2); 
(B) the sufficiency of oversight of the intelligence activi-
ties and programs of special operations forces by the Under 
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Assistant Sec-
retary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity 
Conflict, and the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense 
for Intelligence Oversight; 
(C) the validity of the cost estimate of special oper-
ations intelligence activities and programs required by 
paragraph (2)(G); and 
(D) any other matters the Comptroller General deter-
mines are relevant. 
(b) LIMITATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), not more than 
50 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this 
Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2015 for procure-
ment, Defense-wide, for intelligence systems, and for research, 
development, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide, for intel-
ligence systems development may be obligated until the assess-
ment required under subsection (a) is submitted. 
(2) EXCEPTION.—Paragraph (1) shall not apply— 
(A) with respect to funds authorized to be appropriated 
for Overseas Contingency Operations under title XV; or 
(B) in any case where the Secretary of Defense deter-
mines the limitation in paragraph (1) may impede a current 
operation. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
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(1) APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CONGRESS.—The term 
‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ means the congressional 
defense committees, the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence of the House of Representatives, and the Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence of the Senate. 
(2) FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘future 
years defense program’’ means the future years defense pro-
gram under section 221 of title 10, United States Code. 
(3) 
GEOGRAPHIC
COMBATANT
COMMANDER.—The 
term 
‘‘geographic combatant commander’’ means a commander of 
a combatant command (as defined in section 161(c) of title 
10, United States Code) with a geographic area of responsibility. 
SEC. 1626. ANNUAL BRIEFING ON THE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, 
AND RECONNAISSANCE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COMBAT-
ANT COMMANDS. 
At the same time that the President’s budget is submitted 
pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for 
each of fiscal years 2016 through 2020— 
(1) the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall provide 
to the congressional defense committees, the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, 
and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate a 
briefing on— 
(A) the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance 
requirements, by specific intelligence capability type, of 
each of the combatant commands; 
(B) for the year preceding the year in which the briefing 
is provided, the satisfaction rate of each of the combatant 
commands with the intelligence, surveillance, and recon-
naissance requirements, by specific intelligence capability 
type, of such combatant command; and 
(C) a risk analysis identifying the critical gaps and 
shortfalls in such requirements in relation to such satisfac-
tion rate; and 
(2) the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence shall 
provide to the congressional defense committees, the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representa-
tives, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate 
a briefing on short-term, mid-term, and long-term strategies 
to address the critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnais-
sance requirements of the combatant commands. 
SEC. 1627. PROHIBITION ON NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM 
CONSOLIDATION. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—No amounts authorized to be appropriated 
or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense may 
be used during the period beginning on the date of the enactment 
of this Act and ending on December 31, 2015, to execute— 
(1) the separation of the National Intelligence Program 
budget from the Department of Defense budget; 
(2) the consolidation of the National Intelligence Program 
budget within the Department of Defense budget; or 
(3) the establishment of a new appropriations account or 
appropriations account structure for the National Intelligence 
Program budget. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
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(1) NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘National 
Intelligence Program’’ has the meaning given the term in sec-
tion 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003). 
(2) NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET.—The term 
‘‘National Intelligence Program budget’’ means the portions of 
the Department of Defense budget designated as part of the 
National Intelligence Program. 
SEC. 1628. PERSONNEL SECURITY AND INSIDER THREAT. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than March 30, 2015, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the 
plans of the Department to address— 
(1) the adoption of an interim capability to continuously 
evaluate the security status of the employees and contractors 
of the Department who have been determined eligible for and 
granted access to classified information by the Department 
of Defense Central Adjudication Facilities; 
(2) the use of an interim system to assist in developing 
requirements, lessons learned, business rules, privacy stand-
ards, and operational concepts applicable to the objective auto-
mated records checks and continuous evaluation capability 
required by the strategy for modernizing personnel security; 
(3) the engineering for an interim system and the objective 
automated records checks and continuous evaluation capability 
for initial investigations and reinvestigations required by the 
strategy for modernizing personnel security to support automa-
tion-assisted insider threat analyses conducted across the law 
enforcement, personnel security, human resources, counterintel-
ligence, physical security, network behavior monitoring, and 
cybersecurity activities of all the components of the Department 
of Defense, pursuant to Executive Order 13587; 
(4) how competitive processes and open systems designs 
will be used to acquire advanced commercial technologies 
throughout the life cycle of the objective continuous evaluation 
capability required by the strategy for modernizing personnel 
security; 
(5) how the senior agency official in the Department of 
Defense for insider threat detection and prevention will be 
supported by experts in counterintelligence, personnel security, 
law enforcement, human resources, physical security, network 
monitoring, cybersecurity, and privacy and civil liberties from 
relevant components of the Department and experts in informa-
tion technology, large-scale data analysis, systems engineering, 
and program acquisition; 
(6) how the senior agency official, in developing the 
integrated, automation-assisted insider threat capability, will 
be supported by— 
(A) the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
Technology, and Logistics; 
(B) the Chief Information Officer of the Department 
of Defense; and 
(C) the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and 
Readiness; and 
(7) who will be responsible and accountable for managing 
the development and fielding of the automation-assisted insider 
threat capability.