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‘‘SEC. 515. SUBMISSION OF COVERED DOCUMENTS AND 
CLASSIFIED ANNEXES. 
‘‘(a) COVERED DOCUMENT DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘covered document’ means any executive order, 
memorandum, or policy directive issued by the President, 
including national security Presidential memoranda and 
Presidential policy directives, or such successor memoranda 
and directives. 
‘‘(b) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 7 days after the 
date on which the President issues or amends a covered doc-
ument, the President, acting through the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, shall submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees, the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives the covered document and 
any classified annex accompanying that document if such 
covered document or annex contains a direction to, estab-
lishes a requirement for, or includes a restriction on any 
element of the intelligence community.’’. 
(b) INITIAL SUBMISSION.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 
National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees, the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations 
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of the House of Representatives each covered document and 
classified annex required under section 515 of the National 
Security Act of 1947, as added by subsection (a), in effect 
as of the date of enactment of this Act. 
(c) REPEAL.—Section 310 of the Intelligence Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 115–31; 50 
U.S.C. 3312) is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 6317. IMPROVEMENTS TO PROGRAM ON RECRUITMENT 
AND TRAINING. 
Section 1022 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 3222) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 1022. PROGRAM ON RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING. 
‘‘(a) PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—The Director of National 
Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of the ele-
ments of the intelligence community, shall carry out 
a program to ensure that selected individuals are pro-
vided funds for academic training (including with re-
spect to both undergraduate and postgraduate edu-
cation), or to reimburse for academic training pre-
viously obtained— 
‘‘(A) in capabilities, missions, or skillsets, 
especially in the fields of science, technology, 
math, and engineering, to address workforce re-
quirements in which the intelligence community 
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is deficient or likely to be deficient in the future; 
or 
‘‘(B) for such individuals who have back-
grounds or experiences that the Director has 
identified as— 
‘‘(i) contributing to capabilities, mis-
sions, or skillsets in which the intelligence 
community is deficient or likely to be defi-
cient in future; and 
‘‘(ii) being underrepresented in the in-
telligence community or likely to be under-
represented in the future. 
‘‘(2) COMMITMENT.—An individual selected for 
participation in the program shall commit to employ-
ment with an element of the intelligence community 
for a period that the Director determines is commen-
surate with the amount of funding provided to the in-
dividual under the program and under such terms 
and conditions as the Director considers appropriate. 
‘‘(3) DESIGNATION.—The program shall be 
known as the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Pro-
gram. 
‘‘(4) OUTREACH.—The Director, in consultation 
with the heads of the elements of the intelligence com-
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munity, shall maintain a publicly available internet 
website on the program that describes— 
‘‘(A) the intent of the program; 
‘‘(B) the conditions and requirements for se-
lection and participation; 
‘‘(C) application instructions; 
‘‘(D) the areas covered by the program pur-
suant to the review conducted under subsection 
(b)(2); and 
‘‘(E) any other details the Director deter-
mines appropriate. 
‘‘(b) ELEMENTS.—In carrying out the program under 
subsection (a), the Director shall— 
‘‘(1) establish such requirements relating to the 
academic training of participants as the Director 
considers appropriate to ensure that participants are 
prepared for employment as intelligence professionals; 
and 
‘‘(2) on an annual basis, review the areas that 
will contribute to the capabilities, missions, and 
skillsets in which the intelligence community is defi-
cient or is likely to be deficient in the future. 
‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds made available for the 
program under subsection (a) shall be used— 
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‘‘(1) to provide a monthly stipend for each 
month that a participant is pursuing a course of 
study; 
‘‘(2) to pay the partial or full tuition of a par-
ticipant for the completion of such course of study; 
‘‘(3) to reimburse a participant for tuition paid 
by the participant before becoming an employee of an 
element of the intelligence community, including with 
respect to providing payments for student loans used 
for such tuition; 
‘‘(4) to pay for books and materials that the par-
ticipant requires or required to complete such course 
of study; 
‘‘(5) to pay the expenses of the participant for 
travel requested by an element of the intelligence com-
munity in relation to such program; or 
‘‘(6) for such other purposes the Director con-
siders reasonably appropriate to carry out such pro-
gram.’’. 
SEC. 
6318. 
MEASURES 
TO 
MITIGATE 
COUNTERINTEL-
LIGENCE THREATS FROM PROLIFERATION 
AND 
USE 
OF 
FOREIGN 
COMMERCIAL 
SPYWARE. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) COVERED DEVICE.—The term ‘‘covered de-
vice’’ means any electronic mobile device including 
smartphones, tablet computing devices, or laptop com-
puting devices, that is issued by an element of the in-
telligence community for official use. 
(2) FOREIGN
COMMERCIAL
SPYWARE; FOREIGN 
COMPANY; SPYWARE.—The terms ‘‘foreign commercial 
spyware’’, ‘‘foreign company’’, and ‘‘spyware’’ have 
the meanings given those terms in section 1102A of 
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3231 et 
seq.), as added by this section. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It shall be the policy of 
the United States to act decisively against counterintel-
ligence threats posed by foreign commercial spyware, as 
well as the individuals who lead entities selling foreign com-
mercial spyware and who are reasonably believed to be in-
volved, have been involved, or pose a significant risk to 
being or becoming involved, in activities contrary to the na-
tional security or foreign policy interests of the United 
States. 
(c) MEASURES TO MITIGATE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE 
THREATS.—Title XI of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3231 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 1102 the following new section (and conforming the 
table of contents at the beginning of such Act accordingly): 
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‘‘SEC. 1102A. MEASURES TO MITIGATE COUNTERINTEL-
LIGENCE THREATS FROM PROLIFERATION 
AND 
USE 
OF 
FOREIGN 
COMMERCIAL 
SPYWARE. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’ means— 
‘‘(A) the Select Committee on Intelligence, 
the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Ap-
propriations, and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-
ate; and 
‘‘(B) the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
on Financial Services, the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, the Committee on Appropriations, the 
Committee on Homeland Security, and the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Reform of the House of 
Representatives. 
‘‘(2) COVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘covered enti-
ty’ means any foreign company that either directly or 
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indirectly develops, maintains, owns, operates, bro-
kers, markets, sells, leases, licenses, or otherwise makes 
available spyware. 
‘‘(3) FOREIGN
COMMERCIAL
SPYWARE.—The 
term ‘foreign commercial spyware’ means spyware 
that is developed (solely or in partnership with a for-
eign company), maintained, sold, leased, licensed, 
marketed, sourced (in whole or in part), or otherwise 
provided, either directly or indirectly, by a foreign 
company. 
‘‘(4) FOREIGN
COMPANY.—The term ‘foreign 
company’ means a company that is incorporated or 
domiciled outside of the United States, including any 
subsidiaries or affiliates wherever such subsidiaries or 
affiliates are domiciled or incorporated. 
‘‘(5) SPYWARE.—The term ‘spyware’ means a 
tool or set of tools that operate as an end-to-end sys-
tem of software to provide an unauthorized user re-
mote access to information stored on or transiting 
through an electronic device connected to the Internet 
and not owned or operated by the unauthorized user, 
including end-to-end systems that— 
‘‘(A) allow an unauthorized user to re-
motely infect electronic devices with malicious 
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software, including without any action required 
by the user of the device; 
‘‘(B) can record telecommunications or 
other audio captured on a device not owned by 
the unauthorized user; 
‘‘(C) undertake geolocation, collect cell site 
location information, or otherwise track the loca-
tion of a device or person using the internal sen-
sors of an electronic device not owned by the un-
authorized user; 
‘‘(D) allow an unauthorized user access to 
and the ability to retrieve information on the 
electronic device, including text messages, files, e- 
mails, transcripts of chats, contacts, photos, and 
browsing history; or 
‘‘(E) any additional criteria described in 
publicly available documents published by the 
Director of National Intelligence, such as wheth-
er the end-to-end system is used outside the con-
text of a codified lawful intercept system. 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL
ASSESSMENTS
OF
COUNTERINTEL-
LIGENCE THREATS.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days 
after the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2023, and annually thereafter, the 
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Director of National Intelligence, in coordination 
with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 
the Director of the National Security Agency, and the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
report with an accompanying classified annex con-
taining an assessment of the counterintelligence 
threats and other risks to the national security of the 
United States posed by the proliferation of foreign 
commercial spyware. The assessment shall incorporate 
all credible data, including open-source information. 
‘‘(2) ELEMENTS.—Each report under paragraph 
(1) shall include the following, if known: 
‘‘(A) A list of the most significant covered 
entities. 
‘‘(B) A description of the foreign commer-
cial spyware marketed by the covered entities 
identified under subparagraph (A) and an as-
sessment by the intelligence community of the 
foreign commercial spyware. 
‘‘(C) An assessment of the counterintel-
ligence risk to the intelligence community or per-
sonnel of the intelligence community posed by 
foreign commercial spyware. 
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‘‘(D) For each covered entity identified in 
subparagraph (A), details of any subsidiaries, 
resellers, or other agents acting on behalf of the 
covered entity. 
‘‘(E) Details of where each covered entity 
identified under subparagraphs (A) and (D) is 
domiciled. 
‘‘(F) A description of how each covered enti-
ty identified under subparagraphs (A) and (D) 
is financed, where the covered entity acquired its 
capital, and the organizations and individuals 
having substantial investments or other equities 
in the covered entity. 
‘‘(G) An assessment by the intelligence com-
munity of any relationship between each covered 
entity identified in subparagraphs (A) and (D) 
and any foreign government, including any ex-
port controls and processes to which the covered 
entity is subject. 
‘‘(H) A list of the foreign customers of each 
covered entity identified in subparagraphs (A) 
and (D), including the understanding by the in-
telligence community of the organizations and 
end-users within any foreign government. 
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‘‘(I) With respect to each foreign customer 
identified under subparagraph (H), an assess-
ment by the intelligence community regarding 
how the foreign customer is using the spyware, 
including whether the foreign customer has tar-
geted personnel of the intelligence community. 
‘‘(J) With respect to the first report re-
quired under paragraph (1), a mitigation plan 
to reduce the exposure of personnel of the intel-
ligence 
community 
to 
foreign 
commercial 
spyware. 
‘‘(K) With respect to each report following 
the first report required under paragraph (1), 
details of steps taken by the intelligence commu-
nity since the previous report to implement 
measures to reduce the exposure of personnel of 
the intelligence community to foreign commercial 
spyware. 
‘‘(3) CLASSIFIED ANNEX.—In submitting the re-
port under subsection (2), the Director shall also in-
clude an accompanying but separate classified annex, 
providing a watchlist of companies selling, leasing, or 
otherwise providing foreign commercial spyware that 
the Director determines are engaged in activities that 
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pose a counterintelligence risk to personnel of the in-
telligence community. 
‘‘(4) FORM.—Each report under paragraph (1) 
shall be submitted in classified form. 
‘‘(5) DISSEMINATION.—The Director of National 
Intelligence shall separately distribute each report 
under paragraph (1) and each annex under para-
graph (3) to the President, the heads of all elements 
of the intelligence community, the Secretary of State, 
the Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, the National Cyber 
Director, and the heads of any other departments or 
agencies the Director of National Intelligence deter-
mines appropriate. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORITY TO PROHIBIT PURCHASE OR USE BY 
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.— 
‘‘(1) FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SPYWARE.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Director of Na-
tional Intelligence may prohibit any element of 
the intelligence community from procuring, leas-
ing, or otherwise acquiring on the commercial 
market, or extending or renewing a contract to 
procure, lease, or otherwise acquire, foreign com-
mercial spyware. 
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‘‘(vi) whether the use of the foreign 
commercial spyware requires the user to 
connect to an information system of the 
original owner or developer or information 
system of a foreign government; and 
‘‘(vii) whether the foreign commercial 
spyware poses a counterintelligence risk to 
the United States or any other threat to the 
national security of the United States. 
‘‘(2) COMPANY
THAT
HAS
ACQUIRED
FOREIGN 
COMMERCIAL SPYWARE.— 
‘‘(A) AUTHORITY.—The Director of Na-
tional Intelligence may prohibit any element of 
the intelligence community from entering into 
any contract or other agreement for any purpose 
with a company that has acquired, in whole or 
in part, any foreign commercial spyware. 
‘‘(B) 
CONSIDERATIONS.—In 
considering 
whether and how to exercise the authority under 
subparagraph (A), the Director of National In-
telligence shall consider— 
‘‘(i) whether the original owner or de-
veloper of the foreign commercial spyware 
retains any of the physical property or in-
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tellectual property associated with the 
spyware; 
‘‘(ii) whether the original owner or de-
veloper of the foreign commercial spyware 
has verifiably destroyed all data, and any 
copies thereof, collected by or associated 
with the spyware; 
‘‘(iii) whether the personnel of the 
original owner or developer of the foreign 
commercial spyware retain any access to 
data collected by or associated with the for-
eign commercial spyware; 
‘‘(iv) whether the use of the foreign 
commercial spyware requires the user to 
connect to an information system of the 
original owner or developer or information 
system of a foreign government; and 
‘‘(v) whether the foreign commercial 
spyware poses a counterintelligence risk to 
the United States or any other threat to the 
national security of the United States. 
‘‘(3) NOTIFICATIONS OF PROHIBITION.—Not later 
than 30 days after the date on which the Director of 
National Intelligence exercises the authority to issue 
a prohibition under subsection (c), the Director of Na-
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tional Intelligence shall notify the congressional intel-
ligence committees of such exercise of authority. Such 
notice shall include— 
‘‘(A) a description of the circumstances 
under which the prohibition was issued; 
‘‘(B) an identification of the company or 
product covered by the prohibition; 
‘‘(C) any information that contributed to 
the decision of the Director of National Intel-
ligence to exercise the authority, including any 
information relating to counterintelligence or 
other risks to the national security of the United 
States posed by the company or product, as as-
sessed by the intelligence community; and 
‘‘(D) an identification of each element of the 
intelligence community to which the prohibition 
has been applied. 
‘‘(4) WAIVER AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The head of an element 
of the intelligence community may request from 
the Director of National Intelligence the waiver 
of a prohibition made under paragraph (1) or 
(2). 
‘‘(B) 
DIRECTOR
OF
NATIONAL
INTEL-
LIGENCE DETERMINATION.—The Director of Na-
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tional Intelligence, upon receiving the waiver re-
quest in subparagraph (A), may issue a waiver 
for a period not to exceed one year in response 
to the request from the head of an element of the 
intelligence community if such waiver is in the 
national security interest of the United States. 
‘‘(C) NOTICE.—Not later than 30 days after 
approving a waiver request pursuant to sub-
paragraph (B), the Director of National Intel-
ligence shall submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees, the Subcommittee on Defense 
of the Committee on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives a written notification. The noti-
fication shall include— 
‘‘(i) an identification of the head of the 
element of the intelligence community that 
requested the waiver; 
‘‘(ii) the details of the waiver request, 
including the national security interests of 
the United States; 
‘‘(iii) the rationale and basis for the 
determination that the waiver is in the na-
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tional security interests of the United 
States; 
‘‘(iv) the considerations that informed 
the ultimate determination of the Director 
of National Intelligence to issue the wavier; 
and 
‘‘(v) and any other considerations con-
tributing to the determination, made by the 
Director of National Intelligence. 
‘‘(D) WAIVER TERMINATION.—The Director 
of National Intelligence may revoke a previously 
granted waiver at any time. Upon revocation of 
a waiver, the Director of National Intelligence 
shall submit a written notification to the con-
gressional intelligence committees, the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives not 
later than 30 days after making a revocation de-
termination. 
‘‘(5) TERMINATION OF PROHIBITION.—The Di-
rector of National Intelligence may terminate a pro-
hibition made under paragraph (1) or (2) at any 
time. Upon termination of a prohibition, the Director 
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of National Intelligence shall submit a notification of 
the termination to the congressional intelligence com-
mittees, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives not later than 
30 days after terminating a prohibition, detailing the 
basis for the termination, including any United 
States national security interests that may be affected 
by such termination.’’. 
(d) PROTECTION OF COVERED DEVICES.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 120 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence shall— 
(A) issue standards, guidance, best prac-
tices, and policies for elements of the intelligence 
community to protect covered devices from being 
compromised by foreign commercial spyware; 
(B) survey elements of the intelligence com-
munity regarding the processes used by the ele-
ments to routinely monitor covered devices for 
indicators of compromise associated with foreign 
commercial spyware; and 
(C) submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees a report on the sufficiency of the 
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measures in place to routinely monitor covered 
devices for indicators of compromise associated 
with foreign commercial spyware. 
(2) FORM.—The report under paragraph (1)(C) 
may be submitted in classified form. 
(3) COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
NOTIFICATIONS.— 
Not later than 30 days after the date on which an ele-
ment of the intelligence community becomes aware 
that a covered device was targeted or compromised by 
foreign commercial spyware, the Director of National 
Intelligence, in coordination with the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall notify the con-
gressional intelligence committees, the Subcommittee 
on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives of such determination, including— 
(A) the component of the element and the lo-
cation of the personnel whose covered device was 
targeted or compromised; 
(B) the number of covered devices com-
promised or targeted; 
(C) an assessment by the intelligence com-
munity of the damage to national security of the 
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United States resulting from any loss of data or 
sensitive information; 
(D) an assessment by the intelligence com-
munity of any foreign government, or foreign or-
ganization or entity, and, to the extent possible, 
the foreign individuals, who directed and bene-
fitted from any information acquired from the 
targeting or compromise; and 
(E) as appropriate, an assessment by the 
intelligence community of the capacity and will 
of such governments or individuals to continue 
targeting personnel of the United States Govern-
ment. 
(4) PRIVATE
SECTOR
PARTNERSHIPS.—Section 
904(d)(7) of the Counterintelligence Enhancement Act 
of 2002 (50 U.S.C. 3383(d)(7)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(E) 
VULNERABILITIES
FROM
FOREIGN 
COMMERCIAL SPYWARE.— 
‘‘(i) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out 
efforts to secure covered devices, to consult 
with the private sector of the United States 
and reputable third-party researchers to 
identify vulnerabilities from foreign com-
mercial spyware (as defined in section 
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1102A(a) of the National Security Act of 
1947) and maintain effective security meas-
ures for such devices. 
‘‘(ii) COVERED DEVICE DEFINED.—In 
this subparagraph, the term ‘covered device’ 
means any electronic mobile device includ-
ing smartphones, tablet computing devices, 
or laptop computing devices, that is issued 
by an element of the intelligence community 
for official use.’’. 
(e) NO ENHANCED AUTHORITIES.—Nothing in this 
section or an amendment made by this section shall be con-
strued as enhancing, or otherwise changing, the authorities 
of the intelligence community to target, collect, process, or 
disseminate information regarding United States Govern-
ment personnel. 
(f) REPORT
ON HARMONIZATION AMONG ALLIED 
COUNTRIES.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence shall submit to the con-
gressional intelligence committees, the Subcommittee 
on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
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tives a report on the potential for the United States 
to lead an effort to devise and implement a common 
approach with allied countries as the Director deter-
mines appropriate, including the Five Eyes Partner-
ship, to mitigate the counterintelligence risks posed by 
the proliferation of foreign commercial spyware, in-
cluding by seeking commitments to implement meas-
ures similar to the requirements under this section 
and section 1102A of the National Security Act of 
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3231 et seq.), as added by this sec-
tion. 
(2) FORM.—The report under paragraph (1) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may con-
tain a classified annex, consistent with the protection 
of intelligence sources and methods. 
SEC. 6319. PERSONNEL VETTING PERFORMANCE MEAS-
URES. 
(a) DEFINITIONS OF CONTINUING VETTING; COUNCIL; 
SECURITY EXECUTIVE AGENT.—In this section, the terms 
‘‘continuous vetting’’, ‘‘Council’’, and ‘‘Security Executive 
Agent’’ have the meanings given those terms in section 6601 
of the Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard In-
telligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, 
and 2020 (50 U.S.C. 3352). 
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(b) MEASURES.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act and consistent with section 
807 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2022 (Public Law 117–103), the Director of National Intel-
ligence, acting as the Security Executive Agent, and in co-
ordination with the Chair and other principals of the Coun-
cil, shall develop performance measures to assess the vetting 
of personnel, including measures to assess continuous vet-
ting and the quality of each phase of the personnel vetting 
process, including the initiation, investigation, and adju-
dication phases. 
(c) REPORT.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence shall submit to Congress 
a report describing the performance measures devel-
oped under subsection (b). 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The report under paragraph 
(1) shall include the following: 
(A) A description of how departments and 
agencies of the United States Government have 
implemented Security Executive Agent Directive 
6 titled ‘‘Continuous Evaluation’’ and related 
personnel vetting performance measures to en-
sure that implementation is efficient and effec-
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tive, including the resources expended by each 
department or agency for continuous vetting and 
whether departments and agencies are identi-
fying security-relevant information in a timely 
manner. 
(B) A description of the performance meas-
ures the Director of National Intelligence and the 
Secretary of Defense use to assess the quality of 
each phase of the personnel vetting process, in-
cluding initiation, investigation, adjudication, 
reinvestigation, and continuous vetting. 
(C) How such performance measures meet 
key attributes for successful performance meas-
ures as described in the report of the Comptroller 
General of the United States titled ‘‘Personnel 
Vetting: Actions Needed to Implement Reforms, 
Address Challenges, and Improve Planning’’ 
(GAO–22–104093). 
(D) Any impediments or constraints relat-
ing to the implementation of Security Executive 
Agent Directive 6 or the development of such per-
formance measures to assess the quality of the 
personnel vetting process. 
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SEC. 6320. PROACTIVE CYBERSECURITY. 
(a) SURVEY
OF ELEMENTS.—Pursuant to section 
103G(b)(1) of the National Security Act (50 U.S.C. 
3032(b)(1)), not later than 1 year after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Chief Information Officer of the 
Intelligence Community shall conduct a survey of each ele-
ment of the intelligence community on the use by that ele-
ment of proactive cybersecurity initiatives, continuous ac-
tivity security testing, and active defense techniques. 
(b) REPORT BY CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER.— 
(1) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the completion of the survey under subsection 
(a), the Chief Information Officer of the Intelligence 
Community shall submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees, the Subcommittee on Defense of 
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and 
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives a report 
on proactive cybersecurity initiatives, continuous ac-
tivity security testing, and active defense techniques. 
Such report shall include the following: 
(A) The results of the survey of each element 
of the intelligence community conducted under 
subsection (a), including— 
(i) examples of any successes against 
attackers who breached an information sys-
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tem of an element of the intelligence com-
munity; and 
(ii) concerns, limitations, and associ-
ated recommendations relating to innova-
tive uses of proactive cybersecurity initia-
tives. 
(B) An analysis of the feasibility, costs, and 
benefits of consolidating oversight and implemen-
tation of such methods within the intelligence 
community, including whether such consolida-
tion would significantly enhance defense. 
(C) An analysis of any statutory or policy 
limitations on the ability of the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, or the head of any element of 
the intelligence community, to carry out such 
methods on behalf of an element of the intel-
ligence community or multiple such elements. 
(D) An analysis of the relationships between 
and among the intelligence community, the De-
partment of Defense, the Cybersecurity and In-
frastructure Security Agency of the Department 
of Homeland Security, national laboratories, 
and the private sector, and whether such rela-
tionships should be enhanced to protect national 
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security systems of the intelligence community 
through proactive cybersecurity measures. 
(E) With respect to active defense tech-
niques, a discussion of the effectiveness of such 
techniques to protect the information systems of 
the elements of the intelligence community, any 
constraints that hinder such techniques, and as-
sociated recommendations. 
(F) With respect to continuous activity se-
curity testing, a discussion of— 
(i) how an information system operates 
under normal and intended use, compared 
to how such system operates under a variety 
of adverse conditions and scenarios; and 
(ii) the feasibility of the adoption of 
continuous activity security testing among 
the intelligence community. 
(G) Recommendations for legislative action 
and further resources relating to the successful 
use of proactive cybersecurity initiatives, decep-
tion environments, and continuous activity secu-
rity testing. 
(2) FORM.—The report under paragraph (1) 
may be submitted in classified form. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) ACTIVE
DEFENSE
TECHNIQUE.—The term 
‘‘active defense technique’’ means an action taken on 
an information system of an element of the intel-
ligence community to increase the security of such 
system against an attacker, including— 
(A) the use of a deception technology or 
other purposeful feeding of false or misleading 
information to an attacker accessing such sys-
tem; or 
(B) proportional action taken in response to 
an unlawful breach. 
(2) CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY SECURITY TESTING.— 
The term ‘‘continuous activity security testing’’ 
means continuous experimentation conducted by an 
element of the intelligence community on an informa-
tion system of such element to evaluate the resilience 
of such system against a malicious attack or condi-
tion that could compromise such system for the pur-
pose of improving design, resilience, and incident re-
sponse with respect to such system. 
(3) DECEPTION TECHNOLOGY.—The term ‘‘decep-
tion technology’’ means an isolated digital environ-
ment, system, or platform containing a replication of 
an active information system with realistic data flows 
to attract, mislead, and observe an attacker. 
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(4) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY INFORMATION EN-
VIRONMENT.—The term ‘‘intelligence community in-
formation environment’’ has the meaning given the 
term in Intelligence Community Directive 121, or 
any successor document. 
(5) NATIONAL
LABORATORY.—The term ‘‘na-
tional laboratory’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 15801). 
(6) NATIONAL MANAGER FOR NATIONAL SECU-
RITY
SYSTEMS.—The term ‘‘National Manager for 
National Security Systems’’ means the Director of 
National Security, or successor official, serving as the 
National Manager for National Security Systems 
pursuant to National Security Directive 42, or any 
successor document. 
(7) NATIONAL
SECURITY
SYSTEM.—The term 
‘‘national security system’’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 3552 of title 44, United States 
Code. 
(8) PROACTIVE CYBERSECURITY INITIATIVES.— 
The term ‘‘proactive cybersecurity initiatives’’ means 
actions performed periodically and continuously 
within an organization, focused on identifying and 
eliminating vulnerabilities within the network infra-
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structure, preventing security breaches, and evalu-
ating the effectiveness of the business security posture 
in real-time, including threat hunting, endpoint and 
network monitoring, and cybersecurity awareness and 
training. 
TITLE 
LXIV—MATTERS 
RELAT-
ING TO ELEMENTS OF THE IN-
TELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 
Subtitle A—Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence 
SEC. 6401. MODIFICATIONS TO RESPONSIBILITIES AND AU-
THORITIES OF DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL IN-
TELLIGENCE. 
Section 102A of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 3024), as amended by section 6314, is further 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(5)(C), by striking ‘‘may’’ 
and inserting ‘‘shall’’; 
(2) in subsection (h)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘encourage’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘require’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘, independent of po-
litical considerations,’’ after ‘‘tradecraft’’; 
and 
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(B) by amending paragraph (3) to read as 
follows; 
‘‘(3) ensure that substantial differences in ana-
lytic judgment are fully considered, brought to the at-
tention of policymakers, and documented in analytic 
products; and’’; 
(3) in subsection (i)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, and 
shall establish and enforce policies to protect,’’ 
after ‘‘protect’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘guide-
lines’’ and inserting ‘‘requirements’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(4)(A) Each head of an element of the intelligence 
community shall ensure that any congressionally mandated 
report submitted to Congress by the head, other than such 
a report submitted solely to the congressional intelligence 
committees, shall be consistent with the protection of intel-
ligence sources and methods in accordance with the policies 
established by the Director under paragraph (1), regardless 
of whether the provision of law mandating the report explic-
itly requires such protection. 
‘‘(B) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to 
alter any congressional leadership’s or congressional com-
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mittee’s jurisdiction or access to information from any ele-
ment of the intelligence community under the rules of either 
chamber of Congress.’’; and 
(4) in subsection (x), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘the head of each depart-
ment of the Federal Government that contains an ele-
ment of the intelligence community and the Director 
of the Central Intelligence Agency’’ and inserting ‘‘the 
heads of the elements of the intelligence community’’. 
SEC. 6402. ANNUAL SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS OF NA-
TIONAL INTELLIGENCE PRIORITIES FRAME-
WORK. 
Section 102A(p) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3024(p)) is amended by inserting at the end 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) Not later than October 1 of each year, the Presi-
dent, acting through the Director of National Intelligence, 
shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees, 
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appro-
priations of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense 
of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives a copy of the most recently updated National 
Intelligence Priorities Framework of the Office of the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence (or any such successor mecha-
nism).’’. 
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SEC. 6403. DISPOSITION OF RECORDS OF OFFICE OF THE 
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Section 1096(a) of the Intelligence Reform and Ter-
rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–458; 50 
U.S.C. 3001 note) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘Upon’’; 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘Any records of the Office of the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence that are maintained by the agency 
as a service for the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence under section 1535 of title 31, United 
States Code, (popularly known as the ‘Economy Act’) 
may be treated as the records of the agency when 
dispositioned as required by law, and any disclosure 
of such records between the two agencies shall not be 
subject to any otherwise applicable legal consent re-
quirements or disclosure accounting requirements.’’; 
and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(2) The records of the Office of the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence may not be dispositioned pursuant to 
paragraph (1) without the authorization of the Director of 
National Intelligence.’’. 
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Subtitle B—Central Intelligence 
Agency 
SEC. 6411. CLARIFICATION REGARDING PROTECTION OF 
CENTRAL 
INTELLIGENCE 
AGENCY 
FUNC-
TIONS. 
Section 6 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 
1949 (50 U.S.C. 3507) is amended by striking ‘‘, functions’’ 
and inserting ‘‘or functions of the Agency, or of the’’. 
SEC. 6412. EXPANSION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS RE-
LATING TO AUTHORITY TO PAY PERSONNEL 
OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FOR 
CERTAIN INJURIES TO THE BRAIN. 
Section 2(d)(1) of the Helping American Victims Af-
flicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 2021 (Public Law 
117–46) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘and not 
less frequently than once each year thereafter for 5 
years’’ after ‘‘Not later than 365 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(iv) Detailed information about the 
number of covered employees, covered indi-
viduals, and covered dependents who re-
ported experiencing vestibular, neurological, 
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or related injuries, including those broadly 
termed ‘anomalous health incidents’. 
‘‘(v) The number of individuals who 
have sought benefits under any provision of 
section 19A of the Central Intelligence 
Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3519b). 
‘‘(vi) The number of covered employees, 
covered individuals, and covered dependents 
who are unable to perform all or part of 
their professional duties as a result of inju-
ries described in clause (iv). 
‘‘(vii) An updated analytic assessment 
coordinated by the National Intelligence 
Council regarding the potential causes and 
perpetrators of anomalous health incidents, 
as well as any and all dissenting views 
within the intelligence community, which 
shall be included as appendices to the as-
sessment.’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘The’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Each’’. 
SEC. 6413. HISTORICAL ADVISORY PANEL OF CENTRAL IN-
TELLIGENCE AGENCY. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that Congress expresses its appreciation— 
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(1) to the Director of the Central Intelligence 
Agency for reconstituting the Historical Advisory 
Panel; and 
(2) for the important work of the Historical Ad-
visory Panel, especially for— 
(A) the efforts of the Panel to aid with the 
declassification of materials that enrich the his-
torical national security record; and 
(B) the assistance of the Panel in liaison 
with the scholarly community. 
(b) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—The Historical Advi-
sory Panel shall report directly to the Director of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency. 
(c) HISTORICAL ADVISORY PANEL DEFINED.—The 
term ‘‘Historical Advisory Panel’’ means the panel of the 
Central Intelligence Agency, regardless of the name of the 
panel, that assists in conducting declassification reviews 
and providing other assistance with respect to matters of 
historical interest. 
SEC. 6414. AUTHORITY OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN-
CY TO PROVIDE PROTECTION FOR CERTAIN 
PERSONNEL. 
(a) AUTHORITY.—Paragraph (4) of section 5(a) of the 
Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 
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3506(a)), as amended by section 6303, is further amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(4) Authorize personnel designated by the Director to 
carry firearms to the extent necessary for the performance 
of the Agency’s authorized functions, except that, within the 
United States, such authority shall be limited to the pur-
poses of— 
‘‘(A) the training of Agency personnel and other 
authorized persons in the use of firearms; 
‘‘(B) the protection of classified materials and 
information; 
‘‘(C) the protection of installations and property 
of the Agency; 
‘‘(D) the protection of— 
‘‘(i) current and former Agency personnel 
and their immediate families; 
‘‘(ii) individuals nominated by the Presi-
dent to the position of Director (including with 
respect to an individual whom a President-elect 
(as defined in section 3(c) of the Presidential 
Transition Act of 1963 (3 U.S.C. 102 note) has 
declared an intent to nominate) and their imme-
diate families; and 
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‘‘(iii) defectors and their immediate fami-
lies, and other persons in the United States 
under Agency auspices; and 
‘‘(E) with respect to the Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence, the protection of— 
‘‘(i) installations and property of the Office 
of the Director of National Intelligence; 
‘‘(ii) the Director of National Intelligence 
and the immediate family of the Director; 
‘‘(iii) current and former personnel of the 
Office of the Director of National Intelligence 
and their immediate families as the Director of 
National Intelligence may designate; and 
‘‘(iv) individuals nominated by the Presi-
dent to the position of Director of National Intel-
ligence (including with respect to an individual 
whom a President-elect has declared an intent to 
nominate) and their immediate families;’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 15(d)(1) of 
such Act (50 U.S.C. 3515(d)(1)) is amended by striking 
‘‘designated by the Director under section 5(a)(4) to carry 
firearms for the protection of current or former Agency per-
sonnel and their immediate families, defectors and their im-
mediate families, and other persons in the United States 
under Agency auspices,’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘des-
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ignated by the Director to carry firearms under subpara-
graph (D) or (E) of section 5(a)(4),’’. 
(c) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Paragraphs (7) and 
(8) of section 5(a) of such Act (50 U.S.C. 3506(a)) are 
amended by adjusting the margins to conform with the 
other paragraphs in such section. 
SEC. 6415. NOTIFICATION OF USE OF CERTAIN EXPENDI-
TURE AUTHORITIES. 
(a) CIA.—Section 8 of the Central Intelligence Agency 
Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3510) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date on which the Director makes a novel and significant 
expenditure pursuant to subsection (a), the Director shall 
notify the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of 
the House of Representatives, the Select Committee on Intel-
ligence of the Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives of such expenditure.’’. 
(b) OTHER ELEMENTS.—Section 102A of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3024), as amended by sec-
tion 6402, is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (m)(1), by inserting before the 
period at the end the following: ‘‘, including with re-
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spect to the notification requirement under section 
8(c) of such Act (50 U.S.C. 3510(c))’’; and 
(2) in subsection (n), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) Any authority provided to the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence or the head of an element of the intel-
ligence community pursuant to this subsection to make an 
expenditure referred to in subsection (a) of section 8 of the 
Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3510) 
is subject to the notification requirement under subsection 
(c) of such section. If the Director of National Intelligence 
is required to make a notification for a specific expenditure 
pursuant to both this paragraph and paragraph (4)(G), the 
Director may make a single notification.’’. 
SEC. 6416. OFFICE SUPPORTING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE 
AGENCY WORKFORCE WELLBEING. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Central Intelligence Agen-
cy Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 29. OFFICE OF WELLNESS AND WORKFORCE SUP-
PORT. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director shall establish 
within the Agency an office (in this section referred to as 
the ‘Office’) to provide support for the physical health, men-
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tal health, and wellbeing of eligible individuals under sub-
section (d). 
‘‘(b) 
CHIEF
WELLBEING
OFFICER; 
ASSIGNED 
STAFF.— 
‘‘(1) CHIEF WELLBEING OFFICER.—The head of 
the Office is the Chief Wellbeing Officer, who shall 
provide to the Director regular updates on the oper-
ations of the Office. 
‘‘(2) ASSIGNED STAFF.—To assist in performing 
the functions under subsection (c), the Director shall 
assign to the Office a sufficient number of individ-
uals, who shall have no official duties other than du-
ties related to the Office while so assigned. 
‘‘(c) FUNCTIONS OF OFFICE.— 
‘‘(1) FUNCTIONS.—The Director shall establish 
the functions and role of the Office, which shall in-
clude the following: 
‘‘(A) Providing to eligible individuals under 
subsection (d) advice and assistance on health 
and wellbeing, including with respect to— 
‘‘(i) physical health and access to phys-
ical health care; 
‘‘(ii) mental health and access to men-
tal health care; and 
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‘‘(iii) other related programs and bene-
fits for which the individual may be eligi-
ble. 
‘‘(B) In providing advice and assistance to 
individuals under subparagraph (A), assisting 
such individuals who are applying for, and 
navigating the process to obtain, benefits fur-
nished by the United States Government for 
which the individual is eligible, including, at a 
minimum— 
‘‘(i) health care and benefits described 
in such subparagraph; and 
‘‘(ii) benefits furnished pursuant to 
section 19A. 
‘‘(C) Maintaining, and making available to 
eligible individuals under subsection (d), the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(i) A list of physicians and mental 
health care providers (including from the 
private sector, as applicable), who have ex-
perience with the physical and mental 
health care needs of the Agency workforce. 
‘‘(ii) A list of chaplains and religious 
counselors who have experience with the 
needs of the Agency workforce, including in-
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formation regarding access to the Chaplain 
Corps established under section 26. 
‘‘(iii) Information regarding how to se-
lect and retain private attorneys who have 
experience with the legal needs of the Agen-
cy workforce, including detailed informa-
tion on the process for the appropriate shar-
ing of information with retained private at-
torneys. 
‘‘(D) Any other functions the Director deter-
mines appropriate. 
‘‘(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—The inclusion of 
any person on a list maintained or made available 
pursuant to paragraph (1)(C) shall not be construed 
as an endorsement of such person (or any service fur-
nished by such person), and the Director shall not be 
liable, as a result of such inclusion, for any portion 
of compensable injury, loss, or damage attributable to 
such person or service. 
‘‘(3) CONFIDENTIALITY.— 
‘‘(A) REQUIREMENT.—The Director shall 
ensure that, to the extent permitted by law, the 
advice and assistance provided by the Office to 
eligible individuals under subsection (d) is pro-
vided in a confidential manner. 
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‘‘(B) REGULATIONS.—The Director may 
prescribe regulations regarding the requirement 
for confidentiality under this paragraph. The 
Director shall submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees (as defined in section 3 of the 
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3003)), the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the 
Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
any such regulations not later than 30 days after 
prescribing such regulations. 
‘‘(d) ELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An individual described in 
paragraph (2) may receive a service under the Office 
at the election of the individual. 
‘‘(2) INDIVIDUALS
DESCRIBED.—An individual 
described in this paragraph is— 
‘‘(A) a current or former officer or employee 
of the Agency; or 
‘‘(B) an individual affiliated with the Agen-
cy, as determined by the Director.’’. 
(b) DEADLINE FOR ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of 
the Central Intelligence Agency shall establish the Office 
under section 29 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 
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1949 (as added by subsection (a)) (in this section referred 
to as the ‘‘Office’’) by not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) BIANNUAL BRIEFINGS.—On a biannual basis dur-
ing the three-year period beginning on the date of the estab-
lishment of the Office, the Director shall provide to the con-
gressional intelligence committees, the Subcommittee on De-
fense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and 
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives a briefing on the 
status of the Office, including on— 
(1) the number of individuals assigned to the Of-
fice pursuant to subsection (b)(2) of section 29 of the 
Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (as added by 
subsection (a)); and 
(2) the number of eligible individuals under sub-
section (d) of such section 29 who have received serv-
ices under the Office, and the type of services so re-
ceived. 
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Subtitle C—Elements of the Defense 
Intelligence Enterprise 
SEC. 6421. INCLUSION OF SPACE FORCE AS ELEMENT OF IN-
TELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. 
Section 3(4)(H) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3003(4)(H)) is amended by inserting ‘‘the Space 
Force,’’ after ‘‘the Marine Corps,’’. 
SEC. 6422. OVERSIGHT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGEN-
CY CULTURE. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 
The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ 
means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
Senate; 
(C) the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; 
(D) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(E) the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives. 
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(2) WORKFORCE
CLIMATE
SURVEY.—The term 
‘‘workforce climate survey’’— 
(A) means a workforce engagement or cli-
mate survey conducted at the agency, directorate, 
career field, or integrated intelligence center 
level, without regard to whether the survey is 
conducted on an annual or ad-hoc basis; and 
(B) does not include an exit survey specified 
in subsection (c). 
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that the Defense Intel-
ligence Agency has committed to improving Agency culture 
and leadership; however, actions taken by the Agency as of 
the date of the enactment of this Act have not enabled a 
full assessment of the extent of workforce culture issues and 
potential management abuses, and require additional Con-
gressional oversight to ensure concerns are both understood 
and addressed. 
(c) MANDATORY PROVISION
OF EXIT SURVEY
OR 
INTERVIEW.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Defense 
Intelligence Agency shall ensure that each employee of 
such Agency who leaves employment with such Agen-
cy (but not including any detail assignment) com-
pletes an exit survey or exit interview prior to such 
departure, to the extent practicable. 
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(2) ANNUAL
SUBMISSIONS
TO
CONGRESS.—On 
an annual basis during the 3-year period beginning 
on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
of the Defense Intelligence Agency shall submit to the 
appropriate committees of Congress a written anal-
ysis of the results of the exit surveys or exit interviews 
completed pursuant to paragraph (1) during the year 
covered by the report together with a plan of the Di-
rector to address any issues identified pursuant to 
such results to improve retention and culture. 
(d) CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT RELATING TO WORK-
FORCE CLIMATE SURVEYS.— 
(1) NOTIFICATIONS OF AD-HOC WORKFORCE CLI-
MATE SURVEYS.—Not later than 14 days after the 
date on which the Director of the Defense Intelligence 
Agency conducts an ad-hoc workforce climate survey 
(including in response to a specific incident or con-
cern), the Director shall notify the appropriate com-
mittees of Congress. 
(2) REPORTS
ON
FINAL
RESULTS.—Not later 
than 90 days after the date on which the Director of 
the Defense Intelligence Agency concludes the conduct 
of any workforce climate survey, the Director shall 
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
report containing the final results of such workforce 
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climate survey. Such report shall include the fol-
lowing: 
(A) The topic of the workforce climate sur-
vey, and the workforce level surveyed. 
(B) The rationale for conducting the work-
force climate survey. 
(C) The measures in place to ensure the ac-
cessibility of the workforce climate survey. 
(D) The lead official or entity conducting 
the workforce climate survey. 
(E) Any actions the Director intends to 
take, or is considering, in response to the results 
of the workforce climate survey. 
(3) ACCESSIBILITY
OF
WORKFORCE
CLIMATE 
SURVEYS.—The Director of the Defense Intelligence 
Agency shall ensure that, to the extent practicable, 
and consistent with the protection of intelligence 
sources and methods, workforce climate surveys are 
accessible to employees of such Agency on classified 
and unclassified systems. 
(e) FEASIBILITY REPORT.—Not later than 270 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Defense Intelligence Agency shall submit to the appropriate 
committees of Congress a report containing an analysis of 
the feasibility (including the anticipated cost, personnel re-
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quirements, necessary authorities, and such other matters 
as may be determined appropriate by the Director for pur-
poses of analyzing feasibility) of— 
(1) conducting 360-degree performance reviews 
among employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency; 
and 
(2) including leadership suitability assessments 
(including personality evaluations, communication 
style assessments, and emotional intelligence aptitude 
assessments) for promotions of such employees to a 
position within grade GS–14 or above of the General 
Schedule. 
Subtitle D—Other Elements 
SEC. 6431. MODIFICATION OF ADVISORY BOARD IN NA-
TIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE. 
Section 106A(d) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3041a(d)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3)(A)(i), by inserting ‘‘, in 
consultation with the Director of National Intelligence 
and the Secretary of Defense,’’ after ‘‘Director’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘the date that 
is 3 years after the date of the first meeting of the 
Board’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’. 
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SEC. 6432. ESTABLISHMENT OF ADVISORY BOARD FOR NA-
TIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the Na-
tional Geospatial-Intelligence Agency an advisory board (in 
this section referred to as the ‘‘Board’’). 
(b) DUTIES.—The Board shall— 
(1) study matters relating to the mission of the 
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, including 
with respect to integration of commercial capabilities, 
promoting innovation, advice on next generation 
tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dis-
semination 
capabilities, 
strengthening 
functional 
management, acquisition, and such other matters as 
the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence 
Agency considers appropriate; and 
(2) advise and report directly to the Director 
with respect to such matters. 
(c) MEMBERS.— 
(1) NUMBER AND APPOINTMENT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Board shall be com-
posed of 6 members appointed by the Director 
from among individuals with demonstrated aca-
demic, government, business, or other expertise 
relevant to the mission and functions of the 
Agency. 
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(B) NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date on which the Director appoints a 
member to the Board, the Director shall notify 
the congressional intelligence committees and the 
congressional defense committees (as defined in 
section 101(a) of title 10, United States Code) of 
such appointment. 
(C) INITIAL
APPOINTMENTS.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Director shall appoint the initial 6 
members to the Board. 
(2) TERMS.—Each member shall be appointed 
for a term of 3 years. 
(3) VACANCY.—Any member appointed to fill a 
vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term 
for which the member’s predecessor was appointed 
shall be appointed only for the remainder of that 
term. 
(4) CHAIR.—The Board shall have a Chair, who 
shall be appointed by the Director from among the 
members. 
(5) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Each member shall re-
ceive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, in accordance with applicable provisions 
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under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(6) EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.—The Director may 
appoint an executive secretary, who shall be an em-
ployee of the Agency, to support the Board. 
(d) MEETINGS.—The Board shall meet not less than 
quarterly, but may meet more frequently at the call of the 
Director. 
(e) REPORTS.—Not later than March 31 of each year, 
the Board shall submit to the Director and to the congres-
sional intelligence committees, the Committee on Appro-
priations of the Senate, and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives a report on the activi-
ties and significant findings of the Board during the pre-
ceding year. 
(f) NONAPPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.— 
The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall 
not apply to the Board. 
(g) TERMINATION.—The Board shall terminate on the 
date that is 5 years after the date of the first meeting of 
the Board. 
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SEC. 6433. ELEVATION OF THE COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS 
OPERATIONS 
OFFICE 
OF 
THE 
NATIONAL 
GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. 
Beginning not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the head of the commercial and busi-
ness operations office of the National Geospatial-Intelligence 
Agency shall report directly to the Director of the National 
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 
SEC. 6435. STUDY ON PERSONNEL UNDER STRATEGIC IN-
TELLIGENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM. 
(a) STUDY.—The Director of National Intelligence and 
the Director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintel-
ligence of the Department of Energy, in consultation with 
the National Laboratories Directors’ Council and in coordi-
nation with such other entities, agencies, and departments 
as the Directors consider appropriate, shall jointly conduct 
a study of the skills, recruitment, and retention of the per-
sonnel at the national laboratories who carry out projects 
under the Strategic Intelligence Partnership Program. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The study under subsection (a) shall 
address the following: 
(1) The degree to which the personnel at the na-
tional laboratories who carry out projects under the 
Strategic Intelligence Partnership Program have the 
requisite training, skillsets, or expertise in critical 
science, technology, and engineering areas to support 
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ongoing and anticipated projects under such Pro-
gram, and the sufficiency of such personnel. 
(2) Whether such personnel have compensation, 
benefits, and pay scales that are competitive with 
comparable roles in the private sector in the geo-
graphic market in which the relevant national labora-
tory is located. 
(3) Any challenges associated with the retention 
of such personnel. 
(4) The talent composition of such personnel, 
broken down by career phase and degree status, to in-
clude any relevant exit survey data. 
(5) A description of current or previous pro-
grams to enabling such personnel to rotate between 
elements of the intelligence community and the na-
tional laboratories, including the number of personnel 
on nonreimbursable or reimbursable assignment to an 
element of the intelligence community. 
(6) The degree to which such projects and per-
sonnel support or augment other ongoing mission 
areas and capacities at the national laboratories. 
(c) RECOMMENDATIONS.—Upon completing the study 
under subsection (a), the Directors shall jointly develop 
findings and recommendations based on the results of the 
study regarding the recruitment and retention of personnel 
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at the national laboratories who carry out projects under 
the Strategic Intelligence Partnership Program, including 
with respect to the following: 
(1) New or alternative business models, sponsor-
ship arrangements, or work scope agreements. 
(2) Extending eligibility for existing, or estab-
lishing new, recruitment, retention, or other career 
incentive programs, including student loan repay-
ment and forgiveness programs, to such personnel. 
(3) Initiating geographically flexible or remote 
work arrangements for such personnel. 
(4) Enabling such personnel to participate in 
training at elements of the intelligence community, or 
obtain academic training at the National Intelligence 
University. 
(5) Establishing new, or enhancing existing, op-
portunities for detailee or rotational programs among 
the intelligence community and the national labora-
tories. 
(6) Using a compensation system modeled on the 
Cyber Talent Management System of the Department 
of Homeland Security for such personnel. 
(7) Any other recommendations the Directors de-
termine relevant. 
(d) REPORT.— 
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(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Directors 
shall jointly submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives a report con-
taining the study under subsection (a) and the rec-
ommendations under subsection (c). 
(2) FORM.—The report under paragraph (1) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may in-
clude a classified annex. 
(e) NATIONAL LABORATORIES DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘national laboratories’’ means— 
(1) each national security laboratory (as defined 
in section 3281(1) of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2471(1))); and 
(2) each national laboratory of the Department 
of Energy. 
SEC. 6436. BRIEFING ON COORDINATION BETWEEN INTEL-
LIGENCE COMMUNITY AND BUREAU OF IN-
DUSTRY AND SECURITY. 
(a) DEFINITION
OF APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL 
COMMITTEES.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
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(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the 
Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appro-
priations of the Senate; and 
(3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, the Committee on Finan-
cial Services, the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives. 
(b) CLASSIFIED BRIEFING.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 
National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce, or 
their designees, shall jointly provide a classified briefing to 
the appropriate congressional committees regarding— 
(1) coordination between the intelligence commu-
nity and the Bureau of Industry and Security of the 
Department of Commerce; 
(2) existing processes of the Bureau for the access 
to, storage of, transmission of, and use of information 
provided to the Bureau by an element of the intel-
ligence community; and 
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(3) such recommendations as the Director and 
the Secretary may have to enhance such access, stor-
age, transmission, and use. 
TITLE LXV—MATTERS RELATING 
TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES 
Subtitle A—Intelligence Matters Re-
lating to the People’s Republic of 
China 
SEC. 6501. REPORT ON WEALTH AND CORRUPT ACTIVITIES 
OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CHINESE COM-
MUNIST PARTY. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of State, shall make available 
to the public an unclassified report on the wealth and cor-
rupt activities of the leadership of the Chinese Communist 
Party, including the General Secretary of the Chinese Com-
munist Party and senior leadership officials in the Central 
Committee, the Politburo, the Politburo Standing Com-
mittee, and any other regional Party Secretaries. 
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SEC. 6502. IDENTIFICATION AND THREAT ASSESSMENT OF 
COMPANIES WITH INVESTMENTS BY THE PEO-
PLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 
(a) DEFINITION OF APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF 
CONGRESS.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate com-
mittees of Congress’’ means— 
(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 
(2) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation and the Subcommittee on Defense of 
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and 
(3) the Committee on Energy and Commerce and 
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
Intelligence, in consultation with such heads of elements of 
the intelligence community as the Director considers appro-
priate, the Chairperson of the Federal Communication 
Commission, and the Administrator of the National Tele-
communications and Information Administration, shall 
provide to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
on the risk to national security of the use of— 
(1) telecommunications companies with a 10% 
or greater direct or indirect foreign investment by an 
entity or person owned or controlled by, or subject to 
the jurisdiction or direction of, the People’s Republic 
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of China that is operating in the United States or 
providing services to affiliates and personnel of the 
intelligence community; and 
(2) hospitality and conveyance companies with 
substantial investment by the People’s Republic of 
China by affiliates and personnel of the intelligence 
community for travel on behalf of the United States 
Government. 
SEC. 6503. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP 
FOR MONITORING THE ECONOMIC AND TECH-
NOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES OF THE PEOPLE’S 
REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of National Intel-
ligence, in consultation with such heads of elements of the 
intelligence community as the Director considers appro-
priate, shall establish a cross-intelligence community ana-
lytical working group (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘working group’’) on the economic and technological capa-
bilities of the People’s Republic of China. 
(b) MONITORING AND ANALYSIS.—The working group 
shall monitor and analyze— 
(1) the economic and technological capabilities of 
the People’s Republic of China; 
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(2) the extent to which those capabilities rely on 
exports, financing, or services from the United States 
and other foreign countries; 
(3) the links of those capabilities to the military- 
industrial complex of the People’s Republic of China; 
and 
(4) the threats those capabilities pose to the na-
tional security and values of the United States. 
(c) ANNUAL ASSESSMENT.— 
(1) DEFINITION OF APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES 
OF CONGRESS.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘appro-
priate committees of Congress’’ means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs, the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation, and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate; and 
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Financial Services, the Committee 
on Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland 
Security, the Committee on Energy and Com-
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merce, the Committee on Ways and Means, and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives. 
(2) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently than once 
each year, the working group shall submit to the ap-
propriate committees of Congress an assessment of the 
economic and technological strategy, efforts, and 
progress of the People’s Republic of China to become 
the dominant military, technological, and economic 
power in the world and undermine the rules-based 
world order. 
(3) ELEMENTS.—Each assessment required by 
paragraph (2) shall include the following: 
(A) An unclassified overview of the major 
goals, strategies, and policies of the People’s Re-
public of China to control, shape, or develop self- 
sufficiency in key technologies and control re-
lated supply chains and ecosystems, including— 
(i) efforts to acquire United States and 
other foreign technology and recruit foreign 
talent in technology sectors of the People’s 
Republic of China, including the extent to 
which those efforts relate to the military-in-
dustrial complex of the People’s Republic of 
China; 
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(ii) efforts related to incentivizing 
offshoring of United States and foreign 
manufacturing to China, influencing global 
supply chains, and creating supply chain 
vulnerabilities for the United States, includ-
ing China’s financing or potential financ-
ing in foreign countries to create monopo-
lies in the processing and exporting of rare 
earth and other critical materials necessary 
for renewable energy, including cobalt, lith-
ium, and nickel; 
(iii) related tools and market access re-
strictions or distortions imposed by the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China on foreign firms 
and laws and regulations of the People’s Re-
public of China that discriminate against 
United States and other foreign firms; and 
(iv) efforts of the People’s Republic of 
China to attract or restrict financing from 
the United States and other foreign coun-
tries to build self-sufficient national defense 
capabilities, an evaluation of the relative 
contribution of foreign financing to China’s 
economic support for such capabilities, and 
the type of capital flows from the United 
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States into China’s national defense capa-
bilities from the specific actions taken by 
the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China to attract or restrict financing to the 
outcome of such efforts for entities and per-
sons of the People’s Republic of China. 
(B) An unclassified assessment of the 
progress of the People’s Republic of China to 
achieve its goals, disaggregated by economic sec-
tor. 
(C) An unclassified assessment of the im-
pact of the transfer of capital, technology, data, 
talent, and technical expertise from the United 
States to China on the economic, technological, 
and military capabilities of the People’s Repub-
lic of China. 
(D) An unclassified list of the top 200 busi-
nesses, academic and research institutions, or 
other entities of the People’s Republic of China 
that are— 
(i) developing, producing, or exporting 
to other countries the technologies that are 
strategically important to the People’s Re-
public of China or supporting entities of the 
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People’s Republic of China that are subject 
to sanctions imposed by the United States; 
(ii) supporting the military-civil fu-
sion program or the military industrial 
complex of the People’s Republic of China; 
or 
(iii) otherwise supporting the goals 
and efforts of the Chinese Communist Party 
and Chinese government entities, including 
the Ministry of State Security, the Ministry 
of Public Security, and the People’s Libera-
tion Army. 
(E) An unclassified list of the top 100 devel-
opment, infrastructure, or other strategic projects 
that the People’s Republic of China is financing 
abroad that— 
(i) advance the technology goals and 
strategies of the Chinese Communist Party; 
or 
(ii) evade financial sanctions, export 
controls, or import restrictions imposed by 
the United States. 
(F) An unclassified list of the top 100 busi-
nesses, research institutions, or other entities of 
the People’s Republic of China that are devel-
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oping surveillance, smart cities, or related tech-
nologies that are— 
(i) exported to other countries, under-
mining democracy worldwide; or 
(ii) provided to the security services of 
the People’s Republic of China, enabling 
them to commit severe human rights abuses 
in China. 
(G) An unclassified list of the top 100 busi-
nesses or other entities of the People’s Republic 
of China that are— 
(i) operating in the genocide zone in 
Xinjiang; or 
(ii) supporting the Xinjiang Public Se-
curity Bureau, the Xinjiang Bureau of the 
Ministry of State Security, the People’s 
Armed Police, or the Xinjiang Production 
and Construction Corps. 
(H) A list of investment funds, public com-
panies, or private or early-stage firms of the 
People’s Republic of China that have received 
more than $100,000,000 in capital flows from 
the United States during the 10-year period pre-
ceding the date on which the assessment is sub-
mitted. 
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(4) PREPARATION
OF
ASSESSMENTS.—In pre-
paring each assessment required by paragraph (2), 
the working group shall use open source documents in 
Chinese language and commercial databases. 
(5) FORMAT.—An assessment required by para-
graph (2) may be submitted in the format of a Na-
tional Intelligence Estimate. 
(6) FORM.—Each assessment required by para-
graph (2) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but 
may include a classified annex. 
(7) PUBLICATION.—The unclassified portion of 
each assessment required by paragraph (2) shall be 
published on the publicly accessible website of the Di-
rector of National Intelligence. 
(d) BRIEFINGS TO CONGRESS.—Not less frequently 
than quarterly, the working group shall provide to Congress 
a classified briefing on the economic and technological 
goals, strategies, and progress of the People’s Republic of 
China, especially on the information that cannot be dis-
closed in the unclassified portion of an assessment required 
by subsection (c)(2). 
(e) CLASSIFIED ANALYSES.—Each classified annex to 
an assessment required by subsection (c)(2) or cor-
responding briefing provided under subsection (d) shall in-
clude an analysis of— 
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(1) the vulnerabilities of the People’s Republic of 
China, disaggregated by economic sector, industry, 
and entity; and 
(2) the technological or supply chain chokepoints 
of the People’s Republic of China that provide lever-
age to the United States. 
(f) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to be effective on 
the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
SEC. 6504. ANNUAL REPORT ON CONCENTRATED REEDUCA-
TION CAMPS IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AU-
TONOMOUS REGION OF THE PEOPLE’S RE-
PUBLIC OF CHINA. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 
The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ 
means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate; and 
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Financial Services, and the Com-
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mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
(2) COVERED CAMP.—The term ‘‘covered camp’’ 
means a detention camp, prison, forced labor camp, 
or forced labor factory located in the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic 
of China, referred to by the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China as ‘‘concentrated reeducation 
camps’’ or ‘‘vocational training centers’’. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 120 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annu-
ally thereafter for 5 years, the Director of National Intel-
ligence, in consultation with such heads of elements of the 
intelligence community as the Director considers appro-
priate, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Con-
gress a report on the status of covered camps. 
(c) ELEMENTS.—Each report required by subsection 
(b) shall include the following: 
(1) An identification of the number and geo-
graphic location of covered camps and an estimate of 
the number of victims detained in covered camps. 
(2) A description of— 
(A) the types of personnel and equipment in 
covered camps; 
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(B) the funding received by covered camps 
from the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China; and 
(C) the role of the security services of the 
People’s Republic of China and the Xinjiang 
Production and Construction Corps in enforcing 
atrocities at covered camps. 
(3) A comprehensive list of— 
(A) the entities of the Xinjiang Production 
and Construction Corps, including subsidiaries 
and affiliated businesses, with respect to which 
sanctions have been imposed by the United 
States; 
(B) commercial activities of those entities 
outside of the People’s Republic of China; and 
(C) other Chinese businesses, including in 
the artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and sur-
veillance technology sectors, that are involved 
with the atrocities in Xinjiang or supporting the 
policies of the People’s Republic of China in the 
region. 
(d) FORM.—Each report required by subsection (b) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 
a classified annex. 
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(e) PUBLICATION.—The unclassified portion of each re-
port required by subsection (b) shall be published on the 
publicly accessible website of the Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence. 
SEC. 
6505. 
ASSESSMENTS 
OF 
PRODUCTION 
OF 
SEMI-
CONDUCTORS BY THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC 
OF CHINA. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 
The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ 
means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee 
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation, the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate; and 
(C) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
Financial Services, the Committee on Science, 
Space, and Technology, the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce, the Committee on Home-
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land Security, and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives. 
(2) LEGACY SEMICONDUCTOR.—The term ‘‘legacy 
semiconductor’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 9902(a)(6)(A) of the William M. (Mac) Thorn-
berry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 4652(a)(6)(A)). 
(b) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter 
for 3 years, the Director of National Intelligence shall sub-
mit to the appropriate committees of Congress an assess-
ment of progress by the People’s Republic of China in global 
competitiveness in the production of semiconductors by Chi-
nese firms, including any subsidiary, affiliate, or successor 
of such firms. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out subsection (b), 
the Director shall consult with the Secretary of Commerce 
and the heads of such other Federal agencies as the Director 
considers appropriate. 
(d) ELEMENTS.—Each assessment submitted under 
subsection (b) shall include the following: 
(1) The progress of the People’s Republic of 
China toward self-sufficiency in the supply of semi-
conductors, including globally competitive Chinese 
firms competing in the fields of artificial intelligence, 
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cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, next-genera-
tion and renewable energy, advanced life sciences and 
biotechnology, and high-performance computing. 
(2) The progress of the People’s Republic of 
China in developing indigenously or accessing foreign 
sources of intellectual property critical to the design 
and manufacturing of leading edge process nodes, in-
cluding electronic design automation technology. 
(3) Activity of Chinese firms with respect to the 
production of semiconductors that are not legacy 
semiconductors, including any identified export diver-
sion to evade export controls. 
(4) Any observed stockpiling efforts by Chinese 
firms with respect to semiconductor manufacturing 
equipment, substrate materials, silicon wafers, or 
other necessary inputs for semiconductor production. 
(5) An analysis of the relative market share of 
different Chinese semiconductor manufacturers at dif-
ferent process nodes and the estimated increase or de-
crease of market share by that manufacturer in each 
product category during the preceding year. 
(6) A comprehensive summary of recruitment ac-
tivity of the People’s Republic of China targeting 
semiconductor manufacturing engineers and man-
agers from non-Chinese firms. 
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(7) An analysis of the capability of the workforce 
of the People’s Republic of China to design, produce, 
and manufacture of semiconductors that are not leg-
acy semiconductors and relevant equipment. 
(e) FORM OF ASSESSMENTS.—Each assessment sub-
mitted under subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassi-
fied form and include a classified annex. 
(f) ADDITIONAL REPORTING.—Each assessment sub-
mitted under subsection (b) shall also be transmitted to the 
Secretary of Commerce, to inform, among other activities 
of the Department of Commerce, implementation of section 
103 of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–167) and 
title XCIX of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 
4651 et seq.). 
Subtitle B—Miscellaneous Authori-
ties, Requirements, and Limita-
tions 
SEC. 6511. NOTICE OF DEPLOYMENT OR TRANSFER OF CON-
TAINERIZED MISSILE SYSTEMS BY RUSSIA, 
CHINA, OR IRAN. 
Section 501 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2016 (division M of Public Law 114–113; 129 
Stat. 2923) is amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘the Russian Federation’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘a covered country’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘Club–K container missile sys-
tem’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘missile 
launcher disguised as or concealed in a shipping con-
tainer’’; 
(3) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘deploy, the’’ and inserting 
‘‘deploy, a’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the Russian military’’ and 
inserting ‘‘the military of the covered country’’; 
(4) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’ means the following: 
‘‘(A) The congressional intelligence commit-
tees. 
‘‘(B) The Committees on Armed Services of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
‘‘(C) The Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 
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‘‘(D) The Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Subcommittee on De-
fense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
‘‘(2) COVERED
COUNTRY.—The term ‘covered 
country’ means the following: 
‘‘(A) Russia. 
‘‘(B) China. 
‘‘(C) Iran. 
‘‘(D) North Korea.’’; and 
(5) in the heading, by striking ‘‘CLUB–K CON-
TAINER MISSILE SYSTEM BY THE RUSSIAN FED-
ERATION’’ and inserting ‘‘CONTAINERIZED MIS-
SILE SYSTEM BY RUSSIA OR CERTAIN OTHER 
COUNTRIES’’. 
SEC. 6512. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY COORDINATOR FOR 
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES ACCOUNTABILITY. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 
The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ 
means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
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(B) the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and 
(C) the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives. 
(2) ATROCITY.—The term ‘‘atrocity’’ means a 
war crime, crime against humanity, or genocide. 
(3) COMMIT.—The term ‘‘commit’’, with respect 
to an atrocity, includes the planning, committing, 
aiding, and abetting of such atrocity. 
(4) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States per-
son. 
(5) RUSSIAN
ATROCITY.—The term ‘‘Russian 
atrocity’’ means an atrocity that is committed by an 
individual who is— 
(A) a member of the armed forces, or the se-
curity or other defense services, of the Russian 
Federation; 
(B) an employee of any other element of the 
Russian Government; or 
(C) an agent or contractor of an individual 
specified in subparagraph (A) or (B). 
(6) UNITED STATES PERSON.—The term ‘‘United 
States person’’ has the meaning given that term in 
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section 105A(c) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3039). 
(b) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY COORDINATOR
FOR 
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES ACCOUNTABILITY.— 
(1) DESIGNATION.—Not later than 30 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 
National Intelligence shall designate a senior official 
of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence 
to serve as the intelligence community coordinator for 
Russian atrocities accountability (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Coordinator’’). 
(2) DUTIES.—The Coordinator shall oversee the 
efforts of the intelligence community relating to the 
following: 
(A) Identifying, and (as appropriate) dis-
seminating within the United States Govern-
ment, intelligence relating to the identification, 
location, or activities of foreign persons suspected 
of playing a role in committing Russian atroc-
ities in Ukraine. 
(B) Identifying analytic and other intel-
ligence needs and priorities of the intelligence 
community with respect to the commitment of 
such Russian atrocities. 
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(C) Addressing any gaps in intelligence col-
lection relating to the commitment of such Rus-
sian atrocities and developing recommendations 
to address any gaps so identified, including by 
recommending the modification of the priorities 
of the intelligence community with respect to in-
telligence collection. 
(D) Collaborating with appropriate coun-
terparts across the intelligence community to en-
sure appropriate coordination on, and integra-
tion of the analysis of, the commitment of such 
Russian atrocities. 
(E) Identifying intelligence and other infor-
mation that may be relevant to preserve evidence 
of potential war crimes by Russia, consistent 
with the public commitments of the United 
States to support investigations into the conduct 
of Russia. 
(F) Ensuring the Atrocities Early Warning 
Task Force and other relevant departments and 
agencies of the United States Government receive 
appropriate support from the intelligence com-
munity with respect to the collection, analysis, 
preservation, and, as appropriate, dissemina-
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tion, of intelligence related to Russian atrocities 
in Ukraine. 
(3) PLAN REQUIRED.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director 
of National Intelligence shall submit to the appro-
priate committees of Congress— 
(A) the name of the official designated as 
the Coordinator pursuant to paragraph (1); and 
(B) the strategy of the intelligence commu-
nity for the collection of intelligence related to 
Russian atrocities in Ukraine, including a de-
tailed description of how the Coordinator shall 
support, and assist in facilitating the implemen-
tation of, such strategy. 
(4) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 
(A) REPORTS REQUIRED.—Not later than 
May 1, 2023, and annually thereafter until May 
1, 2026, the Director of National Intelligence 
shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
Congress a report detailing, for the year covered 
by the report— 
(i) the analytical findings and activi-
ties of the intelligence community with re-
spect to Russian atrocities in Ukraine; and 
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(ii) the recipients of information 
shared pursuant to this section for the pur-
pose of ensuring accountability for such 
Russian atrocities, and the date of any such 
sharing. 
(B) FORM.—Each report submitted under 
subparagraph (A) may be submitted in classified 
form, consistent with the protection of intel-
ligence sources and methods. 
(C) SUPPLEMENT.—The Director of Na-
tional Intelligence may supplement an existing 
reporting requirement with the information re-
quired under subparagraph (A) on an annual 
basis to satisfy that requirement with prior noti-
fication of intent to do so to the appropriate 
committees of Congress. 
(c) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to have effect on 
the date that is 4 years after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
SEC. 6513. LEAD INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY COORDI-
NATOR FOR COUNTERING AND NEUTRAL-
IZING PROLIFERATION OF IRAN-ORIGIN UN-
MANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 
The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ 
means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate; and 
(C) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives. 
(2) FIVE EYES PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘‘Five 
Eyes Partnership’’ means the intelligence alliance 
comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the 
United Kingdom, and the United States. 
(3) UNMANNED
AIRCRAFT
SYSTEM.—The term 
‘‘unmanned aircraft system’’ includes an unmanned 
powered aircraft (including communication links and 
the components that control the unmanned aircraft), 
that— 
(A) does not carry a human operator; 
(B) may fly autonomously or be piloted re-
motely; 
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(C) may be expendable or recoverable; and 
(D) may carry a lethal payload or explode 
upon reaching a designated location. 
(b) COORDINATOR.— 
(1) DESIGNATION.—Not later than 30 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence shall designate an official from an 
element of the intelligence community to serve as the 
lead intelligence community coordinator for coun-
tering and neutralizing the proliferation of Iran-ori-
gin unmanned aircraft systems (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Coordinator’’). 
(2) PLAN.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date on which the Coordinator is designated under 
paragraph (1), the Coordinator shall— 
(A) develop a comprehensive plan of action, 
driven by intelligence information, for coun-
tering and neutralizing the threats posed by the 
proliferation of Iran-origin unmanned aircraft 
systems; and 
(B) provide to appropriate committees of 
Congress a briefing on such plan of action. 
(3) FINAL REPORT.— 
(A) SUBMISSION.—Not later than January 
1, 2024, the Director of National Intelligence 
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shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
Congress a final report on the activities and 
findings of the Coordinator. 
(B) MATTERS.—The report under subpara-
graph (A) shall include the following: 
(i) An assessment of the threats posed 
by Iran-origin unmanned aircraft systems, 
including the threat to facilities and per-
sonnel of the United States Government in 
the greater Middle East, particularly in the 
areas of such region that are located within 
the area of responsibility of the Commander 
of the United States Central Command. 
(ii) A detailed description of intel-
ligence sharing efforts, as well as other joint 
efforts driven by intelligence information, 
with allies and partners of the United 
States, to assist in countering and neutral-
izing of such threats. 
(iii) Recommendations for any changes 
in United States policy or legislative au-
thorities to improve the capacity of the in-
telligence community to assist in countering 
and neutralizing such threats. 
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(C) FORM.—The report under subparagraph 
(A) may be submitted in classified form. 
(D) ANNEX.—In submitting the report 
under subparagraph (A) to the congressional in-
telligence committees, the Director shall also in-
clude an accompanying annex, which shall be 
classified, that separately details all efforts sup-
ported exclusively by National Intelligence Pro-
gram funds. 
(c) COLLABORATION WITH FIVE EYES PARTNERSHIP 
AND ISRAEL.—Taking into account the findings of the final 
report under subsection (b)(3), the Director of National In-
telligence shall seek to— 
(1) develop and implement a common approach 
among the Five Eyes Partnership toward countering 
the threats posed by Iran-origin unmanned aircraft 
systems, including by leveraging the unique intel-
ligence capabilities and information of the members of 
the Five Eyes Partnership; and 
(2) intensify cooperation with Israel for the pur-
pose of countering Iran-origin unmanned aircraft 
systems, including by strengthening and expanding 
existing cooperative efforts conducted pursuant to sec-
tion 1278 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
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for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116–92; 133 Stat. 
1702; 22 U.S.C. 8606 note). 
(d) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to have effect on 
the date on which the final report is submitted under sub-
section (b)(3). 
SEC. 6514. COLLABORATION BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE COM-
MUNITY AND DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
TO 
COUNTER 
FOREIGN 
COMMERCIAL 
THREATS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation, the Committee on Armed 
Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; and 
(C) the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
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(2) FOREIGN COMMERCIAL THREAT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘foreign com-
mercial threat’’ means a rare commercial item 
or service that is produced by, offered by, sold by, 
licensed by, or otherwise distributed under the 
control of a strategic competitor or foreign adver-
sary in a manner that may provide the strategic 
competitor or foreign adversary leverage over an 
intended recipient. 
(B) 
DETERMINATIONS
BY
WORKING 
GROUP.—In determining whether an item or 
service is a foreign commercial threat, the Work-
ing Group shall consider whether the strategic 
competitor or foreign adversary could— 
(i) withhold, or threaten to withhold, 
the rare commercial item or service; 
(ii) create reliance on the rare commer-
cial item or service as essential to the safe-
ty, health, or economic wellbeing of the in-
tended recipient; or 
(iii) have its rare commercial item or 
service easily replaced by a United States 
entity or an entity of an ally or partner of 
the United States. 
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(3) RARE COMMERCIAL ITEM OR SERVICE.—The 
term ‘‘rare commercial item or service’’ means a good, 
service, or intellectual property that is not widely 
available for distribution. 
(b) WORKING GROUP.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Unless the Director of 
National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce 
make the joint determination specified in subsection 
(c), the Director and the Secretary, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, shall jointly establish a 
working group to counter foreign commercial threats 
(in this section referred to as the ‘‘Working Group’’). 
(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The composition of the 
Working Group may include any officer or employee 
of a department or agency of the United States Gov-
ernment determined appropriate by the Director or 
the Secretary. 
(3) DUTIES.—The duties of the Working Group 
shall be the following: 
(A) To identify current foreign commercial 
threats. 
(B) To identify probable future foreign com-
mercial threats. 
(C) To identify goods, services, or intellec-
tual property that, if produced by entities within 
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the United States, or allies or partners of the 
United States, would mitigate foreign commer-
cial threats. 
(4) MEETINGS.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and on a regular 
basis that is not less frequently than quarterly there-
after until the date of termination under paragraph 
(5), the Working Group shall meet. 
(5) TERMINATION.—Beginning on the date that 
is 2 years after the date of the establishment under 
paragraph (1), the Working Group may be termi-
nated upon the Director of National Intelligence and 
the Secretary of Commerce jointly— 
(A) determining that termination of the 
Working Group is appropriate; and 
(B) submitting to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a notification of such deter-
mination (including a description of the jus-
tification for such determination). 
(6) REPORTS.— 
(A) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—Not later 
than 60 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, and biannually thereafter until the date 
of termination under paragraph (5), the Work-
ing Group shall submit to the appropriate con-
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gressional committees a report on the activities 
of the Working Group. 
(B) MATTERS.—Each report under sub-
paragraph (A) shall include a description of the 
following: 
(i) Any current or future foreign com-
mercial threats identified by the Working 
Group. 
(ii) The strategy of the United States 
Government, if any, to mitigate any current 
foreign commercial threats or future foreign 
commercial threats so identified. 
(iii) The plan of the intelligence com-
munity to provide to the Department of 
Commerce and other nontraditional cus-
tomers of the intelligence community sup-
port in addressing foreign commercial 
threats. 
(iv) Any other significant activity of 
the Working Group. 
(c) OPTION TO DISCHARGE OBLIGATION THROUGH 
OTHER MEANS.—If the Director of National Intelligence 
and the Secretary of Commerce make a joint determination 
that the requirements of the Working Group under sub-
section (b) (including the duties under paragraph (3) and 
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the reporting requirement under paragraph (6) of such sub-
section) may be appropriately filled by an existing entity 
or structure, and submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees a notification of such determination (including 
a description of the justification for such determination), 
the Director and Secretary may task such entity or struc-
ture with such requirements in lieu of establishing the 
Working Group. 
SEC. 
6515. 
INTELLIGENCE 
ASSESSMENT 
ON 
FOREIGN 
WEAPONIZATION OF ADVERTISEMENT TECH-
NOLOGY DATA. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADVERTISEMENT
TECHNOLOGY
DATA.—The 
term ‘‘advertisement technology data’’ means commer-
cially available data derived from advertisement tech-
nology that is used, or can be used, to geolocate indi-
viduals or gain other targeting information on indi-
viduals. 
(2) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 
The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ 
means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
Senate; 
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(C) the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; 
(D) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(E) the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives. 
(b) ASSESSMENT.—The Director of National Intel-
ligence shall conduct an intelligence assessment of the coun-
terintelligence risks of, and the exposure of intelligence com-
munity and Department of Defense personnel and activities 
to, tracking by foreign adversaries through advertisement 
technology data. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit to 
the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the in-
telligence assessment under subsection (b). 
SEC. 6516. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT RE-
GARDING RUSSIAN GRAY ZONE ASSETS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 
The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ 
means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
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(B) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
Senate; 
(C) the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; 
(D) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(E) the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives. 
(2) GRAY ZONE ACTIVITY.—The term ‘‘gray zone 
activity’’ has the meaning given that term in section 
825 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2022 (Public Law 117–103). 
(3) GRAY ZONE ASSET.—The term ‘‘gray zone 
asset’’— 
(A) means an entity or proxy that is con-
trolled, in whole or in part, by a foreign adver-
sary of the United States and is used by such 
foreign adversary in connection with a gray zone 
activity; and 
(B) includes a state-owned enterprise of a 
foreign adversary that is so used. 
(b) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT REGARD-
ING RUSSIAN GRAY ZONE ASSETS.— 
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(1) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT.— 
The Director of National Intelligence, acting through 
the National Intelligence Council, shall produce an 
intelligence community assessment that contains— 
(A) a description of the gray zone assets of 
Russia; 
(B) an identification of any opportunities 
to hold such gray zone assets at risk, as a method 
of influencing the behavior of Russia; and 
(C) an assessment of the risks and potential 
benefits, with respect to the interests of the 
United States, that may result from the seizure 
of such gray zone assets to hold the assets at risk. 
(2) CONSIDERATIONS.—In identifying opportu-
nities to hold a gray zone asset of Russia at risk 
under paragraph (1)(B), the National Intelligence 
Council shall consider the following: 
(A) The effect on civilians of holding the 
gray zone asset at risk. 
(B) The extent to which the gray zone asset 
is substantially state-owned or substantially con-
trolled by Russia. 
(C) The likelihood that holding the gray 
zone asset at risk will influence the behavior of 
Russia. 
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(D) The likelihood that holding the gray 
asset at risk, or degrading the asset, will affect 
any attempt of Russia to use force to change ex-
isting borders or undermine the political inde-
pendence or territorial integrity of any state, in-
cluding Ukraine. 
(E) Such other factors as the National In-
telligence Council may determine appropriate. 
(3) APPENDIX.—The intelligence community as-
sessment under paragraph (1) shall include an ap-
pendix that contains a list of the categories of gray 
zone assets of Russia, with specific examples of— 
(A) gray zone assets in each category; and 
(B) for each such gray zone asset listed, the 
ways in which Russia uses the asset to advance 
its gray zone activities. 
(4) SUBMISSION.—The Director, consistent with 
the protection of sources and methods, shall submit to 
the appropriate committees of Congress the intel-
ligence community assessment under paragraph (1). 
(5) FORM.—The intelligence community assess-
ment under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in un-
classified form, but may contain a classified annex. 
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Subtitle C—Reports and Other 
Matters 
SEC. 6521. REPORT ON ASSESSING WILL TO FIGHT. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means the following: 
(A) The congressional intelligence commit-
tees. 
(B) The Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Armed Services, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate. 
(C) The Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives. 
(2) MILITARY WILL TO FIGHT.—The term ‘‘mili-
tary will to fight’’ means, with respect to the military 
of a country, the disposition and decision to fight, 
act, or persevere as needed. 
(3) NATIONAL WILL TO FIGHT.—The term ‘‘na-
tional will to fight’’ means, with respect to the gov-
ernment of a country, the resolve to conduct sustained 
military and other operations for an objective even 
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when the expectation of success decreases or the need 
for significant political, economic, and military sac-
rifices increases. 
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) According to a study by the RAND corpora-
tion, ‘‘will to fight’’ is poorly analyzed and the least 
understood aspect of war. 
(2) In testimony before the Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the Senate in May 2022, top intel-
ligence officials of the United States indicated that al-
though the intelligence community accurately antici-
pated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the intelligence 
community did not accurately assess the will of 
Ukrainian forces to fight in opposition to a Russian 
invasion or that the Ukrainian forces would succeed 
in averting a rapid Russian military occupation of 
Kyiv. 
(3) According to the RAND corporation, the in-
telligence community estimated that the Afghan gov-
ernment’s forces could hold out against the Taliban 
for as long as 2 years if all ground forces of the 
United States were withdrawn. This estimate was re-
vised in June 2021 to reflect an intelligence commu-
nity view that Afghanistan’s military collapse could 
come in 6 to 12 months. In August 2021, the Afghan 
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government fell within days after the ground forces of 
the United States were withdrawn. 
(4) Similarly, the rapid advance of the Islamic 
State in Iraq and Syria and near-total collapse of the 
Iraqi Security Forces in 2014 appeared to take the 
policymakers of the United States by surprise. 
(5) The apparent gaps in these analyses had im-
portant implications for policy decisions of the 
United States toward Russia and Afghanistan, and 
suggest a need for further examination of how the in-
telligence community assesses a foreign military’s will 
to fight. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intel-
ligence, acting through the National Intelligence Council 
and in coordination with the heads of the elements of the 
intelligence community that the Director determines appro-
priate, shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a report examining the extent to which analyses of 
the military will to fight and the national will to fight in-
formed the all-source analyses of the intelligence community 
regarding how the armed forces and governments of 
Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Iraq would perform at key junc-
tures. 
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(d) ELEMENTS.—The report under subsection (c) shall 
include the following: 
(1) The methodology of the intelligence commu-
nity for measuring the military will to fight and the 
national will to fight of a foreign country. 
(2) The extent to which analysts of the intel-
ligence community applied such methodology when 
assessing the military will to fight and the national 
will to fight of— 
(A) Afghanistan following the April 2021 
announcement of the full withdrawal of the 
United States Armed Forces; 
(B) Iraq in the face of the rapid emergence 
and advancement in 2014 of Islamic State in 
Iraq and Syria; and 
(C) Ukraine and Russia during the initial 
phase of the invasion and march toward Kyiv by 
Russia in February 2022. 
(3) The extent to which— 
(A) the assessments described in paragraph 
(2) depended on the observations of personnel of 
the United States Armed Forces who had trained 
Afghan, Iraqi, and Ukrainian armed forces; and 
(B) such observations reflected any stand-
ardized, objective methodology. 
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(4) Whether shortcomings in assessing the mili-
tary will to fight and the national will to fight may 
have affected the capacity of the intelligence commu-
nity to provide ‘‘early warning’’ about the collapse of 
government forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
(5) The extent to which ‘‘red teaming’’ was used 
to test the assessments described in paragraph (2). 
(6) The extent to which dissenting opinions of 
intelligence analysts were highlighted in final written 
products presented to senior policymakers of the 
United States. 
(7) The extent to which analysts and supervisors 
adhered to the policies, procedures, directives, and 
best practices of the intelligence community. 
(8) Recommendations for analyses by the intel-
ligence community going forward to incorporate les-
sons learned and enhance the quality of future ana-
lytical products to more accurately reflect the mili-
tary will to fight and the national will to fight and 
improve the capacity of the intelligence community to 
accurately predict the success or failure of the armed 
forces of a foreign country. 
(e) ANNEX.—In submitting the report under subsection 
(c) to the congressional intelligence committees, the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations 
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of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 
the Director shall also include an accompanying annex, 
which shall be classified, providing an inventory of the fol-
lowing: 
(1) Collection gaps and challenges that may have 
affected the analysis of the collapse of government 
forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
(2) Actions that the Director of National Intel-
ligence has taken to mitigate such gaps and chal-
lenges. 
(f) FORM.—The report under subsection (c) may be 
submitted in classified form, but if so submitted, shall in-
clude an unclassified summary of key findings, consistent 
with the protection of intelligence sources and methods. 
SEC. 6522. REPORT ON THREAT FROM HYPERSONIC WEAP-
ONS. 
(a) DEFINITION OF APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF 
CONGRESS.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate com-
mittees of Congress’’ means— 
(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations, and the Subcommittee 
on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; and 
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(3) the Committee on Armed Services, the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and the Subcommittee on 
Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intel-
ligence shall submit to the appropriate committees of Con-
gress a report containing an assessment of the threat to the 
United States, and to allies and partners of the United 
States, from hypersonic weapons in light of the use of such 
weapons by Russia in Ukraine. 
(c) ELEMENTS.—The assessment under subsection (b) 
shall include the following: 
(1) The information learned by the United 
States regarding the hypersonic weapons capabilities 
of Russia. 
(2) Insights into the doctrine of Russia regard-
ing the use of hypersonic weapons. 
(3) An assessment of how allies and partners of 
the United States view the threat of hypersonic weap-
ons. 
(4) An assessment of the degree to which the de-
velopment of missiles with similar capabilities as 
hypersonic weapons used by Russia would enhance or 
reduce the ability of the United States to deter Russia 
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from threatening the national security of the United 
States. 
(d) FORM.—The report under subsection (b) may be 
submitted in classified form. 
SEC. 6523. REPORT ON ORDNANCE OF RUSSIA AND CHINA. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Defense 
Intelligence Agency shall submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees and the congressional defense committees 
a report on ordnance of Russia and China, including the 
technical specificity required for the safe handling and dis-
posal of such ordnance. 
(b) COORDINATION.—The Director shall carry out sub-
section (a) in coordination with the head of any element 
of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise that the Director de-
termines appropriate. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) CONGRESSIONAL
DEFENSE
COMMITTEES.— 
The term ‘‘congressional defense committees’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 101(a) of title 10, 
United States Code. 
(2) DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE ENTERPRISE.—The 
term ‘‘Defense Intelligence Enterprise’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 426(b) of title 10, 
United States Code. 
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SEC. 6524. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF CHINA AND RUSSIA 
TARGETING LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIB-
BEAN. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS.— 
The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ 
means— 
(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Armed Services, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate; and 
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives. 
(2) FOREIGN
MALIGN
INFLUENCE.—The term 
‘‘foreign malign influence’’ means any hostile effort 
undertaken by, at the direction of, or on behalf of or 
with the substantial support of, the government of a 
foreign country with the objective of influencing, 
through overt or covert means— 
(A) the political, military, economic, or 
other policies or activities of the government of 
the country that is the target of the hostile effort, 
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including any election within such target coun-
try; or 
(B) the public opinion within such target 
country. 
(3) LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN.—The 
term ‘‘Latin America and the Caribbean’’ means the 
countries and non-United States territories of South 
America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mex-
ico. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intel-
ligence, acting through the National Intelligence Council 
and in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall sub-
mit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on 
activities undertaken by China and Russia in Latin Amer-
ica and the Caribbean that are intended to increase the in-
fluence of China and Russia, respectively, therein. Such re-
port shall include a description of the following: 
(1) Foreign malign influence campaigns by 
China and Russia targeting Latin America and the 
Caribbean. 
(2) Financial investments intended to increase 
Chinese or Russian influence in Latin America and 
the Caribbean. 
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(3) Efforts by China and Russia to expand dip-
lomatic, military, or other ties to Latin America and 
the Caribbean. 
(4) Any other activities determined appropriate 
by the Director. 
(c) MATTERS.—With respect to the description of for-
eign malign influence campaigns under subsection (b), the 
report shall include an assessment of the following: 
(1) The objectives of any such campaign. 
(2) The themes and messaging used in any such 
campaign. 
(3) The scale and nature of the threat posed by 
any such campaign. 
(4) The effect of such threat on the national secu-
rity, diplomatic, military, or economic interests of the 
United States. 
(d) FORM.—The report under subsection (b) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
annex. 
SEC. 6525. REPORT ON SUPPORT PROVIDED BY CHINA TO 
RUSSIA. 
(a) DEFINITION
OF APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL 
COMMITTEES.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 
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(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 
the Committee on Armed Services, and the Sub-
committee on Defense of the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate; and 
(3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Com-
mittee on Financial Services, the Committee on 
Armed Services, the Committee on Ways and Means, 
and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives. 
(b) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days there-
after, consistent with the protection of intelligence sources 
and methods, the Director of National Intelligence, in con-
sultation with the heads of elements of the intelligence com-
munity that the Director determines appropriate, shall sub-
mit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
on whether and how China, including with respect to the 
Government of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese 
Communist Party, any Chinese state-owned enterprise, and 
any other Chinese entity, has provided support to Russia 
with respect to the unprovoked invasion of and full-scale 
war by Russia against Ukraine. 
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(c) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The report under subsection 
(b) shall include a discussion of support provided by China 
to Russia with respect to— 
(1) helping the Government of Russia or Russian 
entities evade or circumvent sanctions by the United 
States or multilateral sanctions and export controls; 
(2) deliberately inhibiting onsite United States 
Government export control end-use checks, including 
interviews and investigations, in China; 
(3) providing Russia with any technology, in-
cluding semiconductors classified as EAR99, that sup-
ports Russian intelligence or military capabilities; 
(4) establishing economic or financial arrange-
ments that will have the effect of alleviating the effect 
of sanctions by the United States or multilateral 
sanctions; and 
(5) providing any material, technical, or 
logistical support, including to Russian military or 
intelligence agencies and state-owned or state-linked 
enterprises. 
(d) FORM.—The report under subsection (c) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified 
annex. 
(e) SUNSET.—The requirement to submit the report 
under subsection (b) shall terminate on the earlier of— 
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(1) the date on which the Director of National 
Intelligence determines the conflict in Ukraine has 
ended; or 
(2) the date that is 2 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 6526. REPORT ON GLOBAL CCP FINANCING OF PORT 
INFRASTRUCTURE. 
(a) DEFINITION
OF APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL 
COMMITTEES.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations, and the Subcommittee 
on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; and 
(3) the Committee on Armed Services, the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and the Subcommittee on 
Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of State and 
the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report documenting all Chinese 
financing of port infrastructure globally, during the period 
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beginning on January 1, 2012, and ending on the date of 
the submission of the report, and the commercial and eco-
nomic implications of such investments. The report shall 
also include the following: 
(1) A review of existing and potential or planned 
future Chinese financing, including financing by gov-
ernment entities, and state-owned enterprises, in port 
infrastructure at such ports. 
(2) Any known Chinese interest in establishing a 
military or intelligence presence at or near such 
ports. 
(3) An assessment of China’s current and poten-
tial future ability to leverage commercial ports for 
military or intelligence collection purposes and the 
implications of such ability for the national security 
of the United States and allies and partners of the 
United States. 
(4) A description of activities undertaken by the 
United States and allies and partners of the United 
States to help identify and provide alternatives to 
Chinese investments in port infrastructure. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (b) shall 
be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classi-
fied annex produced consistent with the protection of 
sources and methods. 
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SEC. 6527. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PROVISION OF SUP-
PORT BY INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOR 
ATROCITY 
PREVENTION 
AND 
ACCOUNT-
ABILITY. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ATROCITIES.—The term ‘‘atrocities’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 6 of the Elie 
Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–441; 132 Stat. 5586). 
(2) ATROCITY CRIME SCENE.—The term ‘‘atroc-
ity crime scene’’ means 1 or more locations that are 
relevant to the investigation of an atrocity, including 
buildings or locations (including bodies of water) 
where physical evidence may be collected relating to 
the perpetrators, victims, and events of the atrocity, 
such as mass graves and other sites containing de-
ceased individuals. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that the efforts of the United States Government regarding 
atrocity prevention and response through interagency co-
ordination, such as the Atrocity Warning Task Force, are 
critically important and that the Director of National In-
telligence and the Secretary of Defense should, as appro-
priate 
and 
in 
compliance 
with 
the 
American 
Servicemembers’ Protection Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7421 et 
seq.), do the following: 
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(1) Require each element of the intelligence com-
munity to support the Atrocity Warning Task Force 
in its mission to prevent genocide and atrocities 
through policy formulation and program development 
by— 
(A) collecting and analyzing intelligence 
identified as an atrocity, as defined in the Elie 
Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–441; 132 Stat. 5586); 
(B) preparing unclassified intelligence data 
and geospatial imagery products for coordina-
tion with appropriate domestic, foreign, and 
international courts and tribunals prosecuting 
persons responsible for crimes for which such im-
agery and intelligence may provide evidence (in-
cluding genocide, crimes against humanity, and 
war crimes, including with respect to missing 
persons and suspected atrocity crime scenes); 
and 
(C) reassessing archived geospatial imagery 
containing indicators of war crimes, other atroc-
ities, forced disappearances, and atrocity crime 
scenes. 
(2) Continue to make available inputs to the 
Atrocity Warning Task Force for the development of 
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the Department of State Atrocity Early Warning As-
sessment and share open-source data to support pre- 
atrocity and genocide indicators and warnings to the 
Atrocity Warning Task Force. 
(3) Provide the President and Congress with rec-
ommendations to improve policies, programs, re-
sources, and tools relating to atrocity intelligence col-
lection and interagency coordination. 
(4) Regularly consult and participate with des-
ignated interagency representatives of relevant agen-
cies and departments of the United States Govern-
ment. 
(5) Ensure resources are made available for the 
policies, programs, and tools relating to atrocity in-
telligence collection and coordination with the Atroc-
ity Warning Task Force. 
TITLE 
LXVI—INTELLIGENCE 
COMMUNITY 
WORKFORCE 
MATTERS 
SEC. 6601. IMPROVING ONBOARDING OF PERSONNEL IN IN-
TELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. 
(a) DEFINITION OF ONBOARD PERIOD.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘onboard period’’ means the period beginning 
on the date on which an individual submits an application 
for employment and ending on— 
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(1) the date on which the individual is offered 
one or more entrance on duty dates; or 
(2) the date on which the individual enters on 
duty. 
(b) POLICY GUIDANCE.—The Director of National In-
telligence shall establish policy guidance appropriate for all 
elements of the intelligence community that can be used to 
measure, consistently and reliably, the onboard period. 
(c) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
shall submit to the congressional intelligence commit-
tees, the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives a report on the time it takes to on-
board personnel in the intelligence community. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The report submitted under 
paragraph (1) shall cover the mean and median time 
it takes to onboard personnel in the intelligence com-
munity, disaggregated by mode of onboarding and ele-
ment of the intelligence community. 
(d) PLAN.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director, in 
coordination with the heads of the elements of the in-
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telligence community, shall submit to the congres-
sional intelligence committees, the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate, and the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives a plan 
to reduce the onboard period for personnel in the in-
telligence community, for elements of the intelligence 
community that currently have median onboarding 
times that exceed 180 days. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The plan submitted under 
paragraph (1) shall include milestones to achieve cer-
tain specific goals with respect to the mean, median, 
and mode time it takes to onboard personnel in the 
elements of the intelligence community described in 
such paragraph, disaggregated by element of the intel-
ligence community. 
(e) IMPLEMENTATION.—The heads of the elements of 
the intelligence community, including the Director of the 
Central Intelligence Agency, shall implement the plan sub-
mitted under subsection (d) and take all such actions each 
head considers appropriate and necessary to ensure that by 
December 31, 2023, the median duration of the onboard pe-
riod for new employees at each element of the intelligence 
community is equal to less than 180 days. 
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SEC. 6602. REPORT ON LEGISLATIVE ACTION REQUIRED TO 
IMPLEMENT TRUSTED WORKFORCE 2.0 INI-
TIATIVE. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Deputy Di-
rector for Management of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall, in the Deputy Director’s capacity as the 
Chair of the Security, Suitability, and Credentialing Per-
formance Accountability Council pursuant to section 2.4 of 
Executive Order 13467 (50 U.S.C. 3161 note; relating to 
reforming processes related to suitability for Government 
employment, fitness for contractor employees, and eligi-
bility for access to classified national security information), 
submit to Congress a report on the legislative action re-
quired to implement the Trusted Workforce 2.0 initiative. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report submitted under sub-
section (a) shall include the following: 
(1) Specification of the statutes that require 
amendment in order to implement the initiative de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
(2) For each statute specified under paragraph 
(1), an indication of the priority for enactment of an 
amendment. 
(3) For each statute specified under paragraph 
(1), a description of the consequences if the statute is 
not amended. 
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SEC. 6603. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE INTELLIGENCE 
COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT OF ADMINISTRA-
TION OF POLYGRAPHS IN INTELLIGENCE 
COMMUNITY. 
(a) ASSESSMENT REQUIRED.—The Inspector General 
of the Intelligence Community shall conduct an assessment 
of the administration of polygraph evaluations that are 
needed in the intelligence community to meet current an-
nual personnel hiring requirements. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The assessment completed under sub-
section (a) shall include the following: 
(1) Identification of the number of polygraphers 
currently available at each element of the intelligence 
community to meet the requirements described in sub-
section (a). 
(2) If the demand described in subsection (a) 
cannot be met, an identification of the number of 
polygraphers that would need to be hired and certified 
to meet it. 
(3) A review of the effectiveness of alternatives to 
the polygraph, including methods being researched by 
the National Center for Credibility Assessment. 
(c) BRIEFING.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the 
Intelligence Community shall brief the congressional intel-
ligence committees, the Committee on Appropriations of the 
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Senate, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives on the preliminary findings of the In-
spector General with respect to the assessment conducted 
pursuant to subsection (a). 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the 
Intelligence Community shall submit to the committees de-
scribed in subsection (c) a report on the findings of the In-
spector General with respect to the assessment conducted 
pursuant to subsection (a). 
SEC. 6604. TIMELINESS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF POLY-
GRAPHS. 
(a) STANDARDS REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 
National Intelligence shall, in the Director’s capacity 
as the Security Executive Agent pursuant to section 
803(a) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 3162a(a)), issue standards for timeliness for 
Federal agencies to administer polygraphs conducted 
for the purpose of— 
(A) adjudicating decisions regarding eligi-
bility for access to classified information (as de-
fined in the procedures established pursuant to 
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section 801(a) of the National Security Act of 
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3161(a))); and 
(B) granting reciprocity pursuant to Secu-
rity Executive Agent Directive 2, or successor di-
rective. 
(2) PUBLICATION.—The Director shall publish 
the standards issued under paragraph (1) in the Fed-
eral Register or such other venue as the Director con-
siders appropriate. 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall 
submit to Congress a report on how Federal agencies will 
comply with the standards issued under subsection (a). 
Such plan shall specify the resources required by Federal 
agencies to comply with such standards and the timeline 
for doing so. 
SEC. 6605. POLICY ON SUBMITTAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR 
ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION FOR 
CERTAIN PERSONNEL. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall, in 
the Director’s capacity as the Security Executive Agent 
pursuant to section 803(a) of the National Security Act of 
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3162a(a)), issue a policy that allows a pri-
vate person to submit a certain number or proportion of 
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applications, on a nonreimbursable basis, for employee ac-
cess to classified information for personnel who perform key 
management and oversight functions who may not merit 
an application due to their work under any one contract. 
SEC. 6606. TECHNICAL CORRECTION REGARDING FEDERAL 
POLICY ON SHARING OF COVERED INSIDER 
THREAT INFORMATION. 
Section 806(b) of the Intelligence Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117–103) is amended by 
striking ‘‘contracting agency’’ and inserting ‘‘contractor 
that employs the contractor employee’’. 
SEC. 6607. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE INTELLIGENCE 
COMMUNITY REPORT ON USE OF SPACE CER-
TIFIED AS SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED IN-
FORMATION FACILITIES. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Com-
munity shall submit to the congressional intelligence com-
mittees a report on the utilization of space owned or spon-
sored by an element of the intelligence community, located 
in the continental United States, that is certified as a sen-
sitive compartmented information facility under intel-
ligence community or Department of Defense policy. 
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SEC. 6608. IMPROVING PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN PER-
SONNEL PRACTICES IN INTELLIGENCE COM-
MUNITY WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACTOR EM-
PLOYEES. 
Section 1104(c)(1)(A) of the National Security Act of 
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3234(c)(1)(A)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘a supervisor of the contracting 
agency’’ and inserting ‘‘a supervisor of the employing 
or contracting agency or employing contractor’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘contracting agency (or an em-
ployee designated by the head of that agency for such 
purpose)’’ and inserting ‘‘employing or contracting 
agency (or an employee designated by the head of that 
agency for that purpose) or employing contractor’’; 
and 
(3) by striking ‘‘appropriate inspector general of 
the contracting agency’’ and inserting ‘‘appropriate 
inspector general of the employing or contracting 
agency’’. 
SEC. 6609. DEFINITIONS REGARDING WHISTLEBLOWER 
COMPLAINTS AND INFORMATION OF URGENT 
CONCERN RECEIVED BY INSPECTORS GEN-
ERAL OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. 
(a) NATIONAL SECURITY ACT
OF 1947.—Section 
103H(k)(5)(G)(i)(I) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3033(k)(5)(G)(i)(I)) is amended by striking 
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‘‘within the’’ and all that follows through ‘‘policy matters.’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘of the Federal Government 
that is— 
‘‘(aa) a matter of national 
security; and 
‘‘(bb) not a difference of 
opinion concerning public policy 
matters.’’. 
(b) INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT
OF 1978.—Section 
8H(h)(1)(A)(i) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 
U.S.C. App.) is amended by striking ‘‘involving’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘policy matters.’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘of the Federal Government that is— 
‘‘(I) a matter of national security; 
and 
‘‘(II) not a difference of opinion 
concerning public policy matters.’’. 
(c) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ACT OF 1949.— 
Section 17(d)(5)(G)(i)(I)(aa) of the Central Intelligence 
Agency Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3517(d)(5)(G)(i)(I)(aa)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘involving’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘policy matters.’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘of 
the Federal Government that is— 
‘‘(AA) a matter of na-
tional security; and 
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‘‘(BB) not a difference 
of opinion concerning public 
policy matters.’’. 
TITLE LXVII—MATTERS RELAT-
ING 
TO 
EMERGING 
TECH-
NOLOGIES 
Subtitle A—General Matters 
SEC. 6701. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘‘arti-
ficial intelligence’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 5002 of the National Artificial Intelligence 
Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401). 
(2) AUTHORIZATION
TO
OPERATE.—The term 
‘‘authorization to operate’’ has the meaning given 
that term in Circular Number A-130 of the Office of 
Management and Budget, ‘‘Managing Information as 
a Strategic Resource’’, or any successor document. 
(3) 
CODE-FREE
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE 
ENABLEMENT TOOLS.—The term ‘‘code-free artificial 
intelligence enablement tools’’ means software that 
provides an environment in which visual drag-and- 
drop applications, or similar tools, allow one or more 
individuals to program applications without linear 
coding. 
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(4) COMMERCIAL PRODUCT.—The term ‘‘commer-
cial product’’ has the meaning given that term in sec-
tion 103 of title 41, United States Code. 
(5) COMMERCIAL SERVICE.—The term ‘‘commer-
cial service’’ has the meaning given that term in sec-
tion 103a of title 41, United States Code. 
(6) COVERED
ITEM
OR
SERVICE.—The term 
‘‘covered item or service’’ means a product, system, or 
service that is not a commercially available off-the- 
shelf item, a commercial service, or a nondevelop-
mental item, as those terms are defined in title 41, 
United States Code. 
(7) COVERED
PRODUCT.—The term ‘‘covered 
product’’ means a commercial software product that 
involves emerging technologies or artificial intel-
ligence. 
(8) EMERGING TECHNOLOGY.—The term ‘‘emerg-
ing technology’’ means— 
(A) technology that is in a developmental 
stage or that may be developed during the 10- 
year period beginning on January 1, 2022; or 
(B) any technology included in the Critical 
and Emerging Technologies List published by the 
White House in February 2022, or any successor 
document. 
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SEC. 6702. ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF DIRECTOR 
OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ARTIFI-
CIAL INTELLIGENCE POLICIES, STANDARDS, 
AND 
GUIDANCE 
FOR 
THE 
INTELLIGENCE 
COMMUNITY. 
(a) RESPONSIBILITIES OF DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL IN-
TELLIGENCE.—The Director of National Intelligence, in 
consultation with the heads of the elements of the intel-
ligence community or the officials designated under sub-
section (b), shall— 
(1) establish, and periodically conduct reviews 
of, policies, standards, and procedures relating to the 
acquisition, adoption, development, use, coordination, 
and maintenance of artificial intelligence capabilities 
and associated data, frameworks, computing environ-
ments, and other enablers by the intelligence commu-
nity (including by incorporating and updating such 
policies based on emerging technology capabilities), to 
accelerate and increase the adoption of artificial in-
telligence capabilities within the intelligence commu-
nity; 
(2) ensure policies established or updated pursu-
ant to paragraph (1) are consistent with— 
(A) the principles outlined in the guidance 
of the Office of the Director of National Intel-
ligence titled ‘‘Principles of Artificial Intel-
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ligence Ethics for the Intelligence Community 
and its Artificial Intelligence Ethics Framework 
for the Intelligence Community’’, or any suc-
cessor guidance; and 
(B) any other principles developed by the 
Director relating to the governance, documenta-
tion, auditability, or evaluation of artificial in-
telligence systems or the accurate, secure, ethical, 
and reliable adoption or use of artificial intel-
ligence; and 
(3) provide to the heads of the elements of the in-
telligence community guidance for developing the Na-
tional Intelligence Program budget pertaining to such 
elements to facilitate the acquisition, adoption, devel-
opment, use, and maintenance of element-specific ar-
tificial intelligence capabilities, and to ensure the as-
sociated data, frameworks, computing environments, 
and other enablers are appropriately prioritized. 
(b) DESIGNATED LEADS WITHIN EACH ELEMENT OF 
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.—Each head of an element 
of the intelligence community, in coordination with the Di-
rector of National Intelligence, shall identify a senior offi-
cial within the element to serve as the designated element 
lead responsible for overseeing and coordinating efforts re-
lating to artificial intelligence, including through the inte-
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gration of the acquisition, technology, human capital, and 
financial management aspects necessary for the adoption 
of artificial intelligence solutions. Such designated element 
leads shall meet regularly to consult and coordinate with 
the Director of National Intelligence regarding the imple-
mentation of this section and this title. 
SEC. 6703. DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 
(a) EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION.—The Direc-
tor of Science and Technology may— 
(1) conduct reviews of the policies, standards, 
and procedures of the intelligence community that re-
late to emerging technologies and, as appropriate, rec-
ommend to the Director of National Intelligence 
changes to such policies, standards, and procedures, to 
accelerate and increase the adoption of emerging tech-
nologies by the intelligence community; 
(2) make recommendations, in coordination with 
the heads of the elements of the intelligence commu-
nity, to the Director of National Intelligence with re-
spect to the budgets of such elements, to accelerate and 
increase the adoption of emerging technologies by such 
elements; and 
(3) coordinate with the Under Secretary of De-
fense for Research and Engineering on initiatives, 
policies, and programs carried out jointly between the 
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intelligence community and the Department of De-
fense to accelerate and increase the adoption of emerg-
ing technologies. 
(b) APPOINTMENT CRITERIA.—Section 103E(b) of the 
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3030(b)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘In making 
such appointment, the Director of National Intelligence 
may give preference to an individual with experience out-
side of the United States Government.’’. 
SEC. 6704. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CHIEF DATA OFFI-
CER. 
Title I of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3021 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 103J 
the following new section (and conforming the table of con-
tents at the beginning of such Act accordingly): 
‘‘SEC. 103K. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CHIEF DATA OFFI-
CER. 
‘‘(a) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CHIEF DATA OFFI-
CER.—There is an Intelligence Community Chief Data Offi-
cer within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence 
who shall be appointed by the Director of National Intel-
ligence. 
‘‘(b) REQUIREMENT RELATING TO APPOINTMENT.—An 
individual appointed as the Intelligence Community Chief 
Data Officer shall have a professional background and expe-
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rience appropriate for the duties of the Intelligence Commu-
nity Chief Data Officer. In making such appointment, the 
Director of National Intelligence may give preference to an 
individual with experience outside of the United States 
Government. 
‘‘(c) DUTIES.—The Intelligence Community Chief 
Data Officer shall— 
‘‘(1) act as the chief representative of the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence for data issues within the 
intelligence community; 
‘‘(2) coordinate, to the extent practicable and ad-
visable, with the Chief Data Officer of the Department 
of Defense to ensure consistent data policies, stand-
ards, and procedures between the intelligence commu-
nity and the Department of Defense; 
‘‘(3) assist the Director of National Intelligence 
regarding data elements of the budget of the Office of 
the Director of National Intelligence; and 
‘‘(4) perform other such duties as may be pre-
scribed by the Director of National Intelligence or 
specified in law.’’. 
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Subtitle B—Improvements Relating 
to Procurement 
SEC. 6711. ADDITIONAL TRANSACTION AUTHORITY. 
(a) ANNUAL
REPORTS; FEASIBILITY
AND
ADVIS-
ABILITY STUDY.— 
(1) REPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after for 5 years, the Director of National Intelligence 
shall submit to the congressional intelligence commit-
tees, the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives a report on the use of the authority 
under paragraph (5) of section 102A(n) of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3024(n)), as 
added by subsection (b). 
(2) FEASIBILITY AND ADVISABILITY STUDY.— 
(A) STUDY.—The Director of National In-
telligence shall conduct a feasibility and advis-
ability study on whether to provide to the heads 
of the elements of the intelligence community an 
additional transaction authority that is not re-
stricted only to basic, applied, and advanced re-
search projects and prototype projects (similar to 
such less restrictive additional transaction au-
thorities of the Transportation Security Admin-
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istration and the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration). 
(B) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Director shall submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees, the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate, and the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives the 
findings of the study conducted under subpara-
graph (A), including, if the Director determines 
a less restrictive additional transaction author-
ity is advisable pursuant to such study, an iden-
tification of any legislative solutions or other ac-
tions necessary to implement such authority. 
(b) ADDITIONAL TRANSACTION AUTHORITY.—Section 
102A(n) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3024(n)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) OTHER TRANSACTION AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In addition to other acquisi-
tion authorities, the Director of National Intelligence 
may exercise the acquisition authorities referred to in 
sections 4021 and 4022 of title 10, United States 
Code, subject to the provisions of this paragraph. 
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‘‘(B) DELEGATION.—(i) The Director shall dele-
gate the authorities provided by subparagraph (A) to 
the heads of elements of the intelligence community. 
‘‘(ii) The heads of elements of the intelligence 
community shall, to the maximum extent practicable, 
delegate the authority delegated under clause (i) to the 
official of the respective element of the intelligence 
community responsible for decisions with respect to 
basic, applied, or advanced research activities or the 
adoption of such activities within such element. 
‘‘(C) INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AUTHORITY.— 
(i) For purposes of this paragraph, the limitation in 
section 4022(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code, 
shall not apply to elements of the intelligence commu-
nity. 
‘‘(ii) Subject to section 4022(a)(2) of such title, 
the Director may enter into transactions and agree-
ments (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, 
and grants) of amounts not to exceed $75,000,000 
under this paragraph to carry out basic, applied, and 
advanced research projects and prototype projects in 
support of intelligence activities. 
‘‘(iii) For purposes of this paragraph, the limi-
tations specified in section 4022(a)(2) of such title 
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shall apply to the intelligence community in lieu of 
the Department of Defense, and the Director shall— 
‘‘(I) identify appropriate officials who can 
make the determinations required in subpara-
graph (B)(i) of such section for the intelligence 
community; and 
‘‘(II) brief the congressional intelligence 
committees, the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and 
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives in lieu of the congressional defense commit-
tees, as specified in subparagraph (B)(ii) of such 
section. 
‘‘(iv) For purposes of this paragraph, the limita-
tion in section 4022(a)(3) of such title shall not apply 
to elements of the intelligence community. 
‘‘(v) In carrying out this paragraph, section 
4022(d)(1) of such title shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘Director of National Intelligence’ for ‘Sec-
retary of Defense’. 
‘‘(vi) For purposes of this paragraph, the limita-
tions in section 4022(d)(2) of such title shall not 
apply to elements of the intelligence community. 
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‘‘(vii) In addition to the follow-on production 
contract criteria in section 4022(f)(2) of such title, the 
following additional criteria shall apply: 
‘‘(I) The authorizing official of the relevant 
element of the intelligence community determines 
that Government users of the proposed produc-
tion product or production service have been con-
sulted. 
‘‘(II) In the case of a proposed production 
product that is software, there are mechanisms 
in place for Government users to provide ongoing 
feedback to participants to the follow-on produc-
tion contract. 
‘‘(III) In the case of a proposed production 
product that is software, there are mechanisms 
in place to promote the interoperability and ac-
cessibility with and between Government and 
commercial software providers, including by the 
promotion of open application programming 
interfaces and requirement of appropriate soft-
ware documentation. 
‘‘(IV) The award follows a documented mar-
ket analysis as mandated by the Federal Acquisi-
tion Regulations surveying available and com-
parable products. 
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‘‘(V) In the case of a proposed production 
product that is software, the follow-on production 
contract includes a requirement that, for the du-
ration of such contract (or such other period of 
time as may be agreed to as a term of such con-
tract)— 
‘‘(aa) the participants provide the most 
up-to-date version of the product that is 
available in the commercial marketplace 
and is consistent with security require-
ments; 
‘‘(bb) there are mechanisms in place 
for the participants to provide timely up-
dates to the production product; and 
‘‘(cc) the authority specified in section 
4022(f)(5) of such title shall be exercised by 
the Director in lieu of the Secretary of De-
fense. 
‘‘(D) IMPLEMENTATION POLICY.—The Director, 
in consultation with the heads of the elements of the 
intelligence community, shall— 
‘‘(i) not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2023, establish and imple-
ment an intelligence community-wide policy pre-
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scribing the use and limitations of the authority 
under this paragraph, particularly with respect 
to the application of subparagraphs (B) and (C); 
‘‘(ii) periodically review and update the 
policy established under clause (i); and 
‘‘(iii) submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees, the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate, and the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives the 
policy when established under clause (i) or up-
dated under clause (ii). 
‘‘(E) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently than 
annually, the Director shall submit to the con-
gressional intelligence committees, the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives a report detailing the use by the in-
telligence community of the authority provided 
by this paragraph. 
‘‘(ii) ELEMENTS.— 
‘‘(I) REQUIRED ELEMENTS.—Each re-
port required by clause (i) shall detail the 
following: 
‘‘(aa) The number of transactions. 
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‘‘(bb) The participants to such 
transactions. 
‘‘(cc) The purpose of the trans-
action. 
‘‘(dd) The amount of each trans-
action. 
‘‘(ee) Concerns with the efficiency 
of the policy. 
‘‘(ff) Any recommendations for 
how to improve the process. 
‘‘(II) OTHER ELEMENTS.—Each report 
required by clause (i) may describe such 
transactions which have been awarded fol-
low-on production contracts either pursuant 
to the authority provided by this paragraph 
or another acquisition authority available 
to the intelligence community.’’. 
SEC. 6712. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND ADVISABILITY 
STUDY FOR OFFICES OF COMMERCIAL INTE-
GRATION. 
(a) PLAN AND STUDY.— 
(1) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 
National Intelligence, in coordination with the heads 
of the elements of the intelligence community, shall 
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submit to the congressional intelligence committees, 
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on 
Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives— 
(A) a plan for the establishment of a cen-
tralized office or offices within each appropriate 
element of the intelligence community, to be 
known as the ‘‘Office of Commercial Integra-
tion’’, for the purpose of— 
(i) assisting persons desiring to submit 
an offer for a contract with the intelligence 
community; and 
(ii) assisting with the procurement of 
commercial products and commercial serv-
ices; and 
(B) the findings of a study conducted by the 
Director into the advisability of implementing 
such plan, including an assessment of— 
(i) whether there should be a single Of-
fice of Commercial Integration for the intel-
ligence community or whether each element 
of the intelligence community shall establish 
such an Office; 
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(ii) the costs and benefits of the imple-
mentation of such plan; and 
(iii) whether there is within any ele-
ment of the intelligence community an ex-
isting office or program similar to the pro-
posed Office of Commercial Integration. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The materials submitted under 
paragraph (1) shall include the following: 
(A) A recommendation by the Director, 
based on the findings of the study under para-
graph (1)(B), on— 
(i) how the plan under paragraph 
(1)(A) compares to specific alternative ac-
tions of the intelligence community that 
could be taken to assist persons desiring to 
submit an offer for a contract with the in-
telligence community and assist with the 
procurement of commercial products and 
commercial services; and 
(ii) whether to implement such plan. 
(B) A proposal for the designation of a sen-
ior official of the Office of the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence who would be responsible for 
the coordination across the intelligence commu-
nity or across the Offices of Commercial Integra-
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tion, depending on the findings of the study 
under paragraph (1)(B). 
(C) Draft guidelines that would require the 
coordination and sharing of best practices and 
other information across the intelligence commu-
nity. 
(D) A timeline of the steps that would be 
necessary to establish each Office of Commercial 
Integration by the date that is not later than 2 
years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(E) An assessment of the personnel require-
ments, and any other resource requirements, that 
would be necessary to establish the Office or Of-
fices of Commercial Integration by such date, in-
cluding— 
(i) the amount of personnel necessary 
for the establishment of the Office or Offices 
of Commercial Integration; and 
(ii) the necessary qualifications of any 
such personnel. 
(F) Policies regarding the types of assist-
ance that, if an Office or Offices of Commercial 
Integration were to be established, could be pro-
vided to contractors by the Director of such Of-
fice, taking into account the role of such assist-
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ance as an incentive for emerging technology 
companies to enter into contracts with the heads 
of the elements of the intelligence community. 
(G) Eligibility criteria for determining the 
types of offerors or contractors that would be eli-
gible to receive assistance provided by each Office 
of Commercial Integration. 
(H) Policies regarding outreach efforts that 
would be required to be conducted by the Office 
or Offices of Commercial Integration with re-
spect to eligible contractors. 
(I) Policies regarding how the intelligence 
community would coordinate with the Director 
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide 
proactive counterintelligence risk analysis and 
assistance to entities in the private sector. 
(J) Draft guidelines that would require the 
Office or Offices of Commercial Integration to 
appoint and assign personnel with expertise in 
a range of disciplines necessary for the acceler-
ated integration of commercial technologies into 
the intelligence community (as determined by the 
Office or Offices of Commercial Integration), in-
cluding expertise in the following: 
(i) Authorizations to operate. 
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(ii) Contracting. 
(iii) Facility clearances. 
(iv) Security clearances. 
(K) Such other intelligence community-wide 
policies as the Director of National Intelligence 
may prescribe relating to the improvement of 
commercial integration (and the coordination of 
such improvements) by and among the elements 
of the intelligence community. 
(b) PUBLIC WEBSITE
ON COMMERCIAL INTEGRA-
TION.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Director of National Intelligence, in coordination 
with the head of the relevant elements of the intel-
ligence community (as determined by the Director) 
and the designated element leads under section 
6702(b), shall establish a publicly accessible website 
that includes relevant information necessary for 
offerors or contractors to conduct business with each 
element of the intelligence community. 
(2) INCLUSION
OF
CERTAIN
INFORMATION.—If 
there is established an Office or Offices of Commercial 
Integration in accordance with subsection (a), the 
website under paragraph (1) shall include— 
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(A) information, as appropriate, on the ele-
ments under subsection (a)(2) relating to that 
Office; and 
(B) contact information for the relevant 
senior officers of the Office or Offices. 
SEC. 6713. PILOT PROGRAM ON DESIGNATED EMERGING 
TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION PROJECTS. 
(a) PILOT PROGRAM.—The Director of National Intel-
ligence shall carry out a pilot program to more effectively 
transition promising prototypes or products in a develop-
mental stage to a production stage, through designating eli-
gible projects as ‘‘Emerging Technology Transition 
Projects’’. 
(b) DESIGNATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 
National Intelligence shall issue guidelines to imple-
ment the pilot program under subsection (a). 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The guidelines issued pur-
suant to paragraph (1) shall include the following re-
quirements: 
(A) Each head of an element of the intel-
ligence community shall submit to the Director 
of National Intelligence a prioritized list of not 
more than 10 eligible projects per year to be con-
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sidered for designation by the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence as Emerging Technology 
Transition Projects during the budget formula-
tion process. 
(B) The Director of National Intelligence 
shall designate not more than 10 eligible projects 
per year as Emerging Technology Transition 
Projects. 
(C) No eligible project may be designated by 
the Director of National Intelligence as an 
Emerging Technology Transition Project unless 
the head of an element of the intelligence commu-
nity includes the project in the prioritized list 
under subparagraph (A) and submits to the Di-
rector of National Intelligence, with respect to 
the project, each of the following: 
(i) A justification of why the product 
was nominated for transition, including a 
description of the importance of the pro-
posed product to the mission of the intel-
ligence community and the nominating 
agency. 
(ii) A certification that the project pro-
vides new technologies or processes, or new 
applications of existing technologies, that 
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shall enable more effective alternatives to ex-
isting programs, systems, or initiatives of 
the intelligence community. 
(iii) A certification that the project 
provides future cost savings, significantly 
reduces the time to deliver capabilities to 
the intelligence community, or significantly 
improves a capability of the intelligence 
community. 
(iv) A certification that funding is not 
proposed for the project in the budget re-
quest of the respective covered element for 
the fiscal year following the fiscal year in 
which the project is submitted for consider-
ation. 
(v) A certification in writing by the 
nominating head that the project meets all 
applicable criteria and requirements of the 
respective covered element for transition to 
production and that the nominating head 
would fund the project if additional funds 
were made available for such purpose. 
(vi) A description of the means by 
which the proposed production product shall 
be incorporated into the activities and long- 
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term budget of the respective covered ele-
ment following such transition. 
(vii) A description of steps taken to en-
sure that the use of the product shall reflect 
commercial best practices, as applicable. 
(D) A clear description of the selection of el-
igible projects, including specific criteria, that 
shall include, at a minimum, the requirements 
specified in subparagraph (C). 
(E) The designation of an official respon-
sible for implementing this section and coordi-
nating with the heads of the elements of the intel-
ligence community with respect to the guidelines 
issued pursuant to paragraph (1) and overseeing 
the awards of funds to Emerging Technology 
Transition Projects with respect to that element. 
(3) REVOCATION
OF
DESIGNATION.—The des-
ignation of an Emerging Technology Transition 
Project under subsection (b) may be revoked at any 
time by— 
(A) the Director of National Intelligence; or 
(B) the relevant head of a covered element 
of the intelligence community that previously 
submitted a project under subsection (b), in con-
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sultation with the Director of National Intel-
ligence. 
(c) BENEFITS OF DESIGNATION.— 
(1) INCLUSION IN MULTIYEAR NATIONAL INTEL-
LIGENCE PROGRAM PLAN.—The Director of National 
Intelligence shall include in the relevant multiyear 
national intelligence program plan submitted to Con-
gress under section 1403 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (50 U.S.C. 3301) 
the planned expenditures, if any, of each designated 
project during the period of its designation. 
(2) INCLUSION UNDER SEPARATE EXHIBIT.—The 
heads of elements of the intelligence community shall 
ensure that each designated project is included in a 
separate budget exhibit in the relevant multiyear na-
tional intelligence program plan submitted to Con-
gress under such section 1403 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (50 U.S.C. 
3301) for the period of the designation of such project. 
(3) CONSIDERATION
IN
PROGRAMMING
AND 
BUDGETING.—Each designated project shall be taken 
into consideration by the nominating head in the pro-
gramming and budgeting phases of the intelligence 
planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation 
process during the period of its designation. 
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(d) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) ANNUAL REPORTS.—On an annual basis for 
each fiscal year during which the pilot program 
under subsection (a) is carried out, concurrently with 
the submission of the budget of the President for that 
fiscal year under section 1105(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, the Director of National Intelligence 
shall submit to the congressional intelligence commit-
tees and the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate a report that 
includes the following: 
(A) A description of each designated project. 
(B) A summary of the potential of each des-
ignated project, as specified in subsection 
(b)(2)(C). 
(C) For each designated project, a descrip-
tion of the progress made toward delivering on 
such potential. 
(D) A description of any funding proposed 
for the designated project in the future-years in-
telligence program, including by program, ap-
propriation account, expenditure center, and 
project. 
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(E) Such other information on the status of 
such pilot program as the Director considers ap-
propriate. 
(2) FINAL
REPORT.—In the final report sub-
mitted under paragraph (1) prior to the date of ter-
mination under subsection (e), the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence shall include a recommendation on 
whether to extend the pilot program under subsection 
(a) and the appropriate duration of such extension, 
if any. 
(e) TERMINATION DATE.—The authority to carry out 
the pilot program under subsection (a) shall terminate on 
December 31, 2027. 
(f) DEFINITION OF COVERED ELEMENT OF THE INTEL-
LIGENCE COMMUNITY.—In this section, the term ‘‘covered 
element of the intelligence community’’ means the following: 
(1) The Office of the Director of National Intel-
ligence. 
(2) The Central Intelligence Agency. 
(3) The National Security Agency. 
(4) The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 
(5) The National Reconnaissance Office. 
(6) The Defense Intelligence Agency. 
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SEC. 6714. HARMONIZATION OF AUTHORIZATIONS TO OPER-
ATE. 
(a) DEFINITION OF APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF 
CONGRESS.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate com-
mittees of Congress’’ means— 
(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services of the Sen-
ate; 
(3) the Committee on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate; 
(4) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(5) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives. 
(b) PROTOCOL.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intel-
ligence, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense and 
the heads of the elements of the intelligence community, 
shall develop and submit to the appropriate committees of 
Congress a single protocol setting forth policies and proce-
dures relating to authorizations to operate for Department 
of Defense or intelligence community systems held by indus-
try providers. 
(c) LIMITATION.—The protocol under subsection (b) 
shall be limited to authorizations to operate for Department 
of Defense and intelligence community systems. 
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(d) ELEMENTS.—The protocol under subsection (b) 
shall include, at a minimum, the following: 
(1) A policy for reciprocal recognition, as appro-
priate, among the elements of the intelligence commu-
nity and the Department of Defense of authorizations 
to operate held by commercial providers. Such recip-
rocal recognition shall be limited to authorizations to 
operate for systems that collect, process, maintain, 
use, share, disseminate, or dispose of data classified 
at an equal or lower classification level than the 
original authorization. 
(2) Procedures under which, subject to such cri-
teria as may be prescribed by the Director of National 
Intelligence jointly with the Secretary of Defense, a 
provider that holds an authorization to operate for a 
Department of Defense or intelligence community sys-
tem may provide to the head of an element of the in-
telligence community or the Department of Defense 
the most recently updated version of any software, 
data, or application for use on such system without 
being required to submit an application for new or 
renewed authorization. 
(3) Procedures for the review, renewal, and rev-
ocation of authorizations to operate held by commer-
cial providers, including procedures for maintaining 
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continuous authorizations to operate, subject to such 
conditions as may be prescribed by the Director of 
National Intelligence, in coordination with the Sec-
retary of Defense. Such procedures may encourage 
greater use of modern security practices already being 
adopted by the Department of Defense and other Fed-
eral agencies, such as continuous authorization with 
system security focused on continuous monitoring of 
risk and security controls, active system defense, and 
the use of an approved mechanism for secure and con-
tinuous delivery of software (commonly referred to as 
‘‘DevSecOps’’). 
(4) A policy for the harmonization of docu-
mentation requirements for commercial providers sub-
mitting applications for authorizations to operate, 
with the goal of a uniform requirement across the De-
partment of Defense and the elements of the intel-
ligence community (subject to exceptions established 
by the Director and the Secretary). Such policy shall 
include the following requirements: 
(A) A requirement for the full disclosure of 
evidence in the reciprocity process across the De-
partment of Defense and the elements of the in-
telligence community. 
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(B) With respect to a system with an exist-
ing authorization to operate, a requirement for 
approval by the Chief Information Officer or a 
designated official (as the head of the respective 
element of the intelligence community determines 
appropriate) for such system to operate at an 
equal or higher level classification level, to be 
granted prior to the performance of an addi-
tional security assessment with respect to such 
system, and regardless of which element of the 
intelligence community or Department of De-
fense granted the original authorization. 
(5) A requirement to establish a joint secure por-
tal of the Office of the Director of National Intel-
ligence and the Department of Defense for the mainte-
nance of records, applications, and system require-
ments for authorizations to operate. 
(6) A plan to examine, and if necessary, address, 
the shortage of intelligence community and Depart-
ment of Defense personnel authorized to support and 
grant an authorization to operate. Such plan shall 
include— 
(A) a report on the current average wait 
times for authorizations to operate and backlogs, 
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disaggregated by each element of the intelligence 
community and the Department of Defense; 
(B) appropriate recommendations to in-
crease pay or implement other incentives to re-
cruit and retain such personnel; and 
(C) a plan to leverage independent third- 
party assessment organizations to support assess-
ments of applications for authorizations to oper-
ate. 
(7) Procedures to ensure data security and safety 
with respect to the implementation of the protocol. 
(8) A proposed timeline for the implementation 
of the protocol by the deadline specified in subsection 
(g). 
(e) COORDINATING OFFICIALS.—Not later than 60 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act— 
(1) the Director of National Intelligence shall 
designate an official of the Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence responsible for implementing 
this section on behalf of the Director and leading co-
ordination across the intelligence community for such 
implementation; 
(2) the Secretary of Defense shall designate an 
official of the Department of Defense responsible for 
implementing this section on behalf of the Secretary 
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and leading coordination across the Department of 
Defense for such implementation; and 
(3) each head of an element of the intelligence 
community shall designate an official of that element 
responsible for implementing this section and over-
seeing implementation of the protocol under sub-
section (b) with respect to the element. 
(f) DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS.—Under the pro-
tocol under subsection (b), no head of a Federal agency may 
commence the operation of a system using an authorization 
to operate granted by another Federal agency without pos-
sessing documentation of the original authorization to oper-
ate. 
(g) IMPLEMENTATION REQUIRED.—The protocol under 
subsection (b) shall be implemented not later than January 
1, 2025. 
SEC. 6715. PLAN TO EXPAND SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED 
INFORMATION FACILITY ACCESS BY CERTAIN 
CONTRACTORS; REPORTS ON EXPANSION OF 
SECURITY CLEARANCES FOR CERTAIN CON-
TRACTORS. 
(a) PLAN; BRIEFING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the date of enactment of this Act, the Di-
rector of National Intelligence, in consultation with 
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the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other 
elements of the intelligence community as the Director 
of National Intelligence may determine appropriate, 
shall— 
(A) develop a plan to expand access by con-
tractors of small emerging technology companies 
to sensitive compartmented information facilities 
for the purpose of providing such contractors 
with a facility to securely perform work; and 
(B) provide to the congressional intelligence 
committees, the Committee on Armed Services 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate, and the Committee on Armed Services 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives a briefing on such 
plan. 
(2) MATTERS.—The plan under paragraph (1) 
shall include the following: 
(A) An overview of the existing sensitive 
compartmented information facilities, if any, 
that may be available for the purpose specified 
in paragraph (1). 
(B) An assessment of the feasibility of 
building additional sensitive compartmented in-
formation facilities for such purpose. 
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(C) An assessment of the relative costs and 
benefits of repurposing existing, or building ad-
ditional, sensitive compartmented information 
facilities for such purpose. 
(D) The eligibility criteria for determining 
which contractors under this section may be 
granted access to sensitive compartmented infor-
mation facilities for such purpose. 
(E) An estimate of the maximum number of 
contractors that may be provided access to sen-
sitive compartmented information facilities for 
such purpose, taking into account the matters 
specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B). 
(F) Policies to ensure the efficient and nar-
row use of sensitive compartmented information 
facilities for such purpose, including a timeline 
for the length of such use by a contractor under 
this section and a detailed description of the 
process to terminate access to the sensitive com-
partmented information facility by such con-
tractor upon— 
(i) the expiration of the contract or 
agreement of the contractor; or 
(ii) a determination that the con-
tractor no longer has a need for such access 
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to fulfill the terms of such contract or agree-
ment. 
(G) Pricing structures for the use of sen-
sitive compartmented information facilities by 
contractors for the purpose specified in para-
graph (1). Such pricing structures— 
(i) may include free use (for the pur-
pose of incentivizing future contracts), with 
the potential for pricing to increase depend-
ent on the length of the contract or agree-
ment, the size of the contractor, and the 
need for such use; and 
(ii) shall ensure that the cumulative 
cost for a contractor to rent and independ-
ently certify a sensitive compartmented in-
formation facility for such purpose does not 
exceed the market average for the Director of 
National Intelligence or the Secretary of De-
fense to build, certify, and maintain a sen-
sitive compartmented information facility. 
(H) A security plan for vetting each con-
tractor prior to the access of a sensitive compart-
mented information facility by the contractor for 
the purpose specified in paragraph (1), and an 
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assessment of potential security concerns regard-
ing such access. 
(I) A proposed timeline for the expansion of 
access to sensitive compartmented information 
facilities in accordance with paragraph (1). 
(J) Such other matters as the Director of 
National Intelligence or the Secretary of Defense 
considers relevant to such expansion. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR CONTRACTORS.—Un-
less the Director of National Intelligence determines the 
source of the financing of a contractor poses a national se-
curity risk, such source of financing may not be taken into 
consideration in making a determination as to the eligi-
bility of the contractor in accordance with subsection 
(a)(2)(D). 
(c) REPORTS ON EXPANSION OF SECURITY CLEAR-
ANCES FOR CERTAIN CONTRACTORS.— 
(1) REPORTS.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after for 3 years, the Director of National Intelligence 
and the Secretary of Defense shall jointly submit to 
the congressional intelligence committees, the Com-
mittee on Armed Services of the Senate, and the Com-
mittee on Armed Services of the House of Representa-
tives a report on the extent to which security clear-
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ance 
requirements 
delay, 
limit, 
or 
otherwise 
disincentivize emerging technology companies from 
entering into contracts with the United States Gov-
ernment. 
(2) MATTERS.—Each report under paragraph 
(1) shall include the following: 
(A) Statistics on the periods of time between 
the submission of applications for security clear-
ances by employees of emerging technology com-
panies and the grant of such security clearances, 
disaggregated by the size of the respective com-
pany. 
(B) The number of security clearances 
granted to employees of small emerging tech-
nology companies during the period covered by 
the report. 
(C) The number of applications for security 
clearances submitted by employees of emerging 
technology companies that have yet to be adju-
dicated as of the date on which the report is sub-
mitted. 
(D) A projection, for the year following the 
date on which the report is submitted, of the 
number of security clearances necessary for em-
ployees of emerging technology companies to per-
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form work on behalf of the intelligence commu-
nity during such year, and an assessment of the 
capacity of the intelligence community to meet 
such demand. 
(E) An identification of each occurrence, 
during the period covered by the report, in which 
an emerging technology company withdrew from 
or declined to accept a contract with the United 
States Government on the sole basis of delays, 
limitations, or other issues involving security 
clearances, and a description of the types of busi-
ness the United States Government has lost as a 
result of such occurrences. 
(F) Recommendations for expediting the 
grant of security clearances to employees of 
emerging technology companies, including with 
respect to any additional resources, authorities, 
or personnel that the Director of National Intel-
ligence determines may be necessary for such ex-
pedition. 
(3) FORM.—Each report under paragraph (1) 
may be submitted in classified form, but if so sub-
mitted shall include an unclassified executive sum-
mary. 
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(d) PROPOSAL CONCURRENT WITH BUDGET SUBMIS-
SION.—At the time that the President submits to Congress 
the budget for fiscal year 2024 pursuant to section 1105 
of title 31, United States Code, the Director of National 
Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees a proposal to improve the capacity of the work-
force responsible for the investigation and adjudication of 
security clearances, with the goal of reducing the period of 
time specified in subsection (c)(2)(A) to fewer than 60 days. 
Such proposal shall include an identification of any re-
sources the Director of National Intelligence determines nec-
essary to expand the number of individuals authorized to 
conduct polygraphs on behalf of the intelligence community, 
including by furnishing necessary training to such individ-
uals. 
(e) APPLICABILITY.—The plan, briefing, reports, and 
proposal required by this section shall apply only with re-
spect to the intelligence community and the Department of 
Defense. 
SEC. 6716. COMPLIANCE BY INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 
WITH REQUIREMENTS OF FEDERAL ACQUISI-
TION REGULATION RELATING TO COMMER-
CIALLY AVAILABLE OFF-THE-SHELF ITEMS 
AND COMMERCIAL SERVICES. 
(a) COMPLIANCE POLICY.— 
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(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 
National Intelligence shall implement a policy to en-
sure that each element of the intelligence community 
complies with parts 10 and 12 of the Federal Acquisi-
tion Regulation with respect to any Federal Acquisi-
tion Regulation-based procurements. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The policy under paragraph 
(1) shall include the following: 
(A) Written criteria for an element of the 
intelligence community to evaluate when a pro-
curement of a covered item or service is permis-
sible, including— 
(i) requiring the element to conduct an 
independent market analysis to determine 
whether a commercially available off-the- 
shelf item, nondevelopmental item, or com-
mercial service is viable; and 
(ii) a description of the offeror for such 
covered item or service and how the covered 
item or service to be acquired will be inte-
grated into existing systems of the intel-
ligence community. 
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