SEC. 604. REPORT ON EXPANSION OF SECURITY PROTEC-
TIVE SERVICES JURISDICTION. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Central 
Intelligence Agency shall submit to the congressional intel-
ligence committees a report on the feasibility, justification, 
costs, and benefits of expanding the jurisdiction of the 
protective services of the Central Intelligence Agency 
under section 15(a)(1) of the Central Intelligence Agency 
Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. 3515(a)). The report shall in-
clude— 
(1) an explanation of the need for expanding 
such jurisdiction beyond the 500-feet limit specified 
in such section 15(a)(1); and 
(2) an identification of any comparable depart-
ments or agencies of the Federal Government in the 
Washington metropolitan region (as defined in sec-
tion 8301 of title 40, United States Code) whose 
protective services jurisdictions exceed 500 feet. 
(b) FORM.—The report under subsection (a) may be 
submitted in classified form. 
SEC. 605. REPORT ON ROLE OF DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL IN-
TELLIGENCE WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN 
FOREIGN INVESTMENTS. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National In-
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telligence, in consultation with the heads of the elements 
of the intelligence community determined appropriate by 
the Director, shall submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees a report on the role of the Director in pre-
paring analytic materials in connection with the evaluation 
by the Federal Government of national security risks asso-
ciated with potential foreign investments into the United 
States. 
(b) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The report under sub-
section (a) shall— 
(1) describe the current process for the provi-
sion of the analytic materials described in subsection 
(a); 
(2) identify the most significant benefits and 
drawbacks of such process with respect to the role 
of the Director, including any benefits or drawbacks 
relating to the time allotted to the Director to pre-
pare such materials; and 
(3) include recommendations to improve such 
process. 
SEC. 606. REPORT ON GEOSPATIAL COMMERCIAL ACTIVI-
TIES FOR BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH 
AND DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National 
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Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in coordination with the 
Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, and the Director of the National 
Reconnaissance Office, shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report on the feasibility, risks, 
costs, and benefits of providing the private sector and aca-
demia, on a need-driven, tailored basis and consistent with 
the protection of sources and methods and civil liberties, 
access to data in the possession of the National 
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for the purpose of fostering 
the efforts of the private sector and academia in basic re-
search, applied research, data transfers, and development 
projects, with respect to automation, artificial intelligence, 
and associated algorithms. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report under subsection (a) 
shall include— 
(1) the identification of any additional authori-
ties that the Director requires to provide the private 
sector and academia with the access to data de-
scribed in such subsection, on a need-driven, tailored 
basis and consistent with applicable laws and proce-
dures relating to the protection of sources and meth-
ods, privacy, and civil liberties; and 
(2) market research to— 
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(A) assess the commercial and academic 
interest in such data; and 
(B) determine likely private-sector entities 
and institutions of higher education interested 
in public-private partnerships relating to such 
data. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committees on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate; and 
(2) the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence of the House of Representatives and the Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. 
SEC. 607. REPORT ON CYBER EXCHANGE PROGRAM. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National In-
telligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees a report on the potential establishment of a 
fully voluntary exchange program between elements of the 
intelligence community and private technology companies 
under which— 
(1) an employee of an element of the intel-
ligence community with demonstrated expertise and 
work experience in cybersecurity or related dis-
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ciplines may elect to be temporarily detailed to a pri-
vate technology company that has elected to receive 
the detailee; and 
(2) an employee of a private technology com-
pany with demonstrated expertise and work experi-
ence in cybersecurity or related disciplines may elect 
to be temporarily detailed to an element of the intel-
ligence community that has elected to receive the 
detailee. 
(b) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The report under sub-
section (a) shall include the following: 
(1) The feasibility of establishing the exchange 
program described in such subsection. 
(2) Identification of any challenges in estab-
lishing the exchange program. 
(3) An evaluation of the benefits to the intel-
ligence community that would result from the ex-
change program. 
SEC. 608. REVIEW OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY PARTICI-
PATION 
IN 
VULNERABILITIES 
EQUITIES 
PROCESS. 
(a) REVIEW.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the 
Intelligence Community shall review, with respect to the 
3-year period preceding the date of the review, the roles 
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and responsibilities of the elements of the intelligence com-
munity in the process of the Federal Government for de-
termining whether, when, how, and to whom information 
about a vulnerability that is not publicly known will be 
shared with or released to a non-Federal entity or the pub-
lic. 
(b) REPORT.— 
(1) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 240 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the In-
spector General shall submit to the congressional in-
telligence committees a report on the results of the 
review under subsection (a). 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The report under paragraph 
(1) shall include the following: 
(A) A description of the roles and respon-
sibilities of the elements of the intelligence com-
munity in the process of determining whether, 
when, how, and to whom information about a 
vulnerability that is not publicly known will be 
shared or released to a non-Federal entity or 
the public. 
(B) The criteria used by the Federal Gov-
ernment, including elements of the intelligence 
community, in making such determination. 
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sistent with national security, transparency of 
such process. 
(F) Any other matters the Inspector Gen-
eral determines appropriate. 
(3) FORM.—The report may be submitted in 
classified form. 
(c) VULNERABILITY DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘‘vulnerability’’ means, with respect to information 
technology, a design, configuration, or implementation 
weakness in a technology, product, system, service, or ap-
plication that can be exploited or triggered to cause unex-
pected or unintended behavior. 
SEC. 609. REVIEW OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WHIS-
TLEBLOWER MATTERS. 
(a) REVIEW OF WHISTLEBLOWER MATTERS.—The 
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, in con-
sultation with the inspectors general for the Central Intel-
ligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Na-
tional Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intel-
ligence Agency, and the National Reconnaissance Office, 
shall conduct a review of the authorities, policies, inves-
tigatory standards, and other practices and procedures re-
lating to intelligence community whistleblower matters, 
with respect to such inspectors general. 
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(b) OBJECTIVE OF REVIEW.—The objective of the re-
view required under subsection (a) is to identify any dis-
crepancies, inconsistencies, or other issues, which frustrate 
the timely and effective reporting of intelligence commu-
nity whistleblower matters to appropriate inspectors gen-
eral and to the congressional intelligence committees, and 
the fair and expeditious investigation and resolution of 
such matters. 
(c) CONDUCT OF REVIEW.—The Inspector General of 
the Intelligence Community shall take such measures as 
the Inspector General determines necessary in order to en-
sure that the review required by subsection (a) is con-
ducted in an independent and objective fashion. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than 270 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the 
Intelligence Community shall submit to the congressional 
intelligence committees a written report containing the re-
sults of the review required under subsection (a), along 
with recommendations to improve the timely and effective 
reporting of intelligence community whistleblower matters 
to inspectors general and to the congressional intelligence 
committees and the fair and expeditious investigation and 
resolution of such matters. 
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SEC. 610. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NOTIFICATIONS OF CER-
TAIN DISCLOSURES OF CLASSIFIED INFOR-
MATION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that section 502 of 
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3092) re-
quires elements of the intelligence community to keep the 
congressional intelligence committees ‘‘fully and currently 
informed’’ about all ‘‘intelligence activities’’ of the United 
States, and to ‘‘furnish to the congressional intelligence 
committees any information or material concerning intel-
ligence activities . . . which is requested by either of the 
congressional intelligence committees in order to carry out 
its authorized responsibilities.’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the authorities described in subsection (a), 
together with other intelligence community authori-
ties, obligate an element of the intelligence commu-
nity to submit to the congressional intelligence com-
mittees written notification, by not later than 7 days 
after becoming aware, that an individual in the exec-
utive branch has disclosed covered classified infor-
mation to an official of an adversary foreign govern-
ment using methods other than established intel-
ligence channels; and 
(2) each such notification should include— 
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(A) the date and place of the disclosure of 
classified information covered by the notifica-
tion; 
(B) a description of such classified infor-
mation; 
(C) identification of the individual who 
made such disclosure and the individual to 
whom such disclosure was made; and 
(D) a summary of the circumstances of 
such disclosure. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘adversary foreign government’’ 
means the government of any of the following for-
eign countries: 
(A) North Korea. 
(B) Iran. 
(C) China. 
(D) Russia. 
(E) Cuba. 
(2) The term ‘‘covered classified information’’ 
means classified information that was— 
(A) collected by an element of the intel-
ligence community; or 
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(B) provided by the intelligence service or 
military of a foreign country to an element of 
the intelligence community. 
(3) The term ‘‘established intelligence chan-
nels’’ means methods to exchange intelligence to co-
ordinate foreign intelligence relationships, as estab-
lished pursuant to law by the Director of National 
Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence 
Agency, the Director of the National Security Agen-
cy, or other head of an element of the intelligence 
community. 
(4) The term ‘‘individual in the executive 
branch’’ means any officer or employee of the execu-
tive branch, including individuals— 
(A) occupying a position specified in article 
II of the Constitution; 
(B) appointed to a position by an indi-
vidual described in subparagraph (A); or 
(C) serving in the civil service or the senior 
executive service (or similar service for senior 
executives of particular departments or agen-
cies). 
Æ 
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