50 U.S.C. § 3098 (WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE)
§ 3098. Annual personnel level assessments for the intelligence community
(a) Requirement to provide
The Director of National Intelligence shall, in consultation with the head of each element of the intelligence community, prepare an annual personnel level assessment for such element that assesses the personnel levels for such element for the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the assessment is submitted.
(b) Schedule
Each assessment required by subsection (a) shall be submitted to the congressional intelligence committees each year at the time that the President submits to Congress the budget for a fiscal year pursuant to section 1105 of title 31.
(c) Contents
Each assessment required by subsection (a) submitted during a fiscal year shall contain the following information for the element of the intelligence community concerned:
(1) The budget submission for personnel costs for the upcoming fiscal year.
(2) The dollar and percentage increase or decrease of such costs as compared to the personnel costs of the current fiscal year.
(3) The dollar and percentage increase or decrease of such costs as compared to the personnel costs during the prior 5 fiscal years.
(4) The number of full-time equivalent positions that is the basis for which personnel funds are requested for the upcoming fiscal year.
(5) The numerical and percentage increase or decrease of the number referred to in paragraph (4) as compared to the number of full-time equivalent positions of the current fiscal year.
(6) The numerical and percentage increase or decrease of the number referred to in paragraph (4) as compared to the number of full-time equivalent positions during the prior 5 fiscal years.
(7) The best estimate of the number and costs of core contract personnel to be funded by the element for the upcoming fiscal year.
(8) The numerical and percentage increase or decrease of such costs of core contract personnel as compared to the best estimate of the costs of core contract personnel of the current fiscal year.
(9) The numerical and percentage increase or decrease of such number and such costs of core contract personnel as compared to the number and cost of core contract personnel during the prior 5 fiscal years.
(10) A justification for the requested personnel and core contract personnel levels.
(11) The best estimate of the number of intelligence collectors and analysts employed or contracted by each element of the intelligence community.
(12) A statement by the Director of National Intelligence that, based on current and projected funding, the element concerned will have sufficient—
(A) internal infrastructure to support the requested personnel and core contract personnel levels;
(B) training resources to support the requested personnel levels; and
(C) funding to support the administrative and operational activities of the requested personnel levels.
(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, § 506B, as added Pub. L. 111–259, title III, § 305(a), Oct. 7, 2010, 124 Stat. 2659.)
heading: Codification
text: Section was formerly classified to section 415a–4 of chapter 15 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering in chapter 44 of this title.
heading: Implementation
text: Pub. L. 111–259, title III, § 305(b), Oct. 7, 2010, 124 Stat. 2661, provided that: “The first assessment required to be submitted under section 506B(b) of the National Security Act of 1947 [50 U.S.C. 3098(b)], as added by subsection (a), shall be submitted to the congressional intelligence committees at the time that the President submits to Congress the budget for fiscal year 2012 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code.”
[For definition of “congressional intelligence committees” as used in section 305(b) of Pub. L. 111–259, set out above, see section 2 of Pub. L. 111–259, set out as a note under section 3003 of this title.]