A bill to provide for the improvement of foreign stabilization and reconstruction capabilities of the United States Government.

Bill: 109-s-192
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alliances
Arab countries
Area studies
Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil-military relations
Computer software
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Cost accounting
Counterintelligence
Covert operations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cultural relations
Department of Defense
Department of State
Diplomacy
Economics and Public Finance
Employment tests
Evacuation of civilians
Exchange of persons programs
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Intelligence officers
International broadcasting
International education
Iraq compilation
Islamic countries
Language and languages
Legislation
Marines
Middle East and North Africa
Military civic action
Military command and control
Military doctrine
Military education
Military intelligence
Military maneuvers
Military occupation
Military operations
Military policy
Military readiness
Military technology
Military training
Nonprofit organizations
Officer personnel
Personnel management
Planning-programming-budgeting
President and foreign policy
Public opinion
Recruiting of employees
Regionalism (International organization)
Science, Technology, Communications
Special forces (Military science)
Strategic planning
Terrorism
Translating and interpreting
War games
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should develop a planning process for stabilization and reconstruction activities in conflict-affected areas, which shall provide for contingency planning and integration task forces under the general guidance of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, joint interagency task forces, and a national center for contingency support; (2) the President should strengthen the Government's strategic communication abilities, including creation of a permanent organizational structure within the National Security Council (NSC); (3) a new approach is needed to access, coordinate, and implement Government intelligence and knowledge; (4) open source material should be better exploited; and (5) language proficiency should be enhanced.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to: (1) make stabilization and reconstruction capabilities one of the core competencies of their respective Departments; (2) increase cooperation between their Departments; and (3) allocate funding for strategic communication.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) direct commanders of the combatant commands to develop intelligence plans as part of their planning process; (2) develop a program to identify, locate, and track hostile asymmetric warfare operations; and (3) designate the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to serve as executive agent of a Department of Defense (DOD) program to exploit open sources of information.
 
Requires the Director of National Intelligence to refocus intelligence reform from reorganization to problem solving, including the establishment of a human resource coordination office to develop a comprehensive human resource strategy to optimize resource allocation against critical problems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S601-604)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S600-601)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate