[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 185 (Friday, December 18, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8844-S8859]
Mr. BURR. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Joint
Explanatory Statement for Division M--Intelligence Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2016 be printed in the Record.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in
the Record, as follows:
JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY THE INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION
ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016
The following consists of the joint explanatory statement
to accompany the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2016.
This joint explanatory statement reflects the status of
negotiations and disposition of issues reached between the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (hereinafter, ``the
Agreement''). The joint explanatory statement shall have the
same effect with respect to the implementation of this Act as
if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of
conference.
The joint explanatory statement comprises three parts: an
overview of the application of the annex to accompany this
statement; unclassified congressional direction; and a
section-by-section analysis of the legislative text.
Part I: Application of the Classified Annex
The classified nature of U.S. intelligence activities
prevents the congressional intelligence committees from
publicly disclosing many details concerning the conclusions
and recommendations of the Agreement. Therefore, a classified
Schedule of Authorizations and a classified annex have been
prepared to describe in detail the scope and intent of the
congressional intelligence committees' actions. The Agreement
authorizes the Intelligence Community to obligate and expend
funds not altered or modified by the classified Schedule of
Authorizations as requested in the President's budget,
subject to modification under applicable reprogramming
procedures.
The classified annex is the result of negotiations between
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. It reconciles the
differences between the committees' respective versions of
the bill for the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and the
Homeland Security Intelligence Program for Fiscal Year 2016.
The Agreement also makes recommendations for the Military
Intelligence Program (MIP), and the Information Systems
Security Program, consistent with the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, and provides certain
direction for these two programs.
The Agreement supersedes the classified annexes to the
reports accompanying H.R. 4127, as passed by the House on
December 1, 2015, H.R. 2596, as passed by the House on June
16, 2015, and S. 1705, as reported by the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence on July 7, 2015. All references to
the House-passed and Senate-reported annexes are solely to
identify the heritage of specific provisions.
The classified Schedule of Authorizations is incorporated
into the bill pursuant to Section 102. It has the status of
law. The classified annex supplements and adds detail to
clarify the authorization levels found in the bill and the
classified Schedule of Authorizations. The classified annex
shall have the same legal force as the report to accompany
the bill.
Part II: Select Unclassified Congressional Direction
Enhancing Geographic and Demographic Diversity
The Agreement directs the Office of the Director for
National Intelligence (ODNI) to conduct an awareness,
outreach, and recruitment program to rural, under-represented
colleges and universities that are not part of the IC Centers
of Academic Excellence (IC CAE) program. Further, the
Agreement directs that ODNI shall increase and formally track
the number of competitive candidates for IC employment or
internships who studied at IC CAE schools and other
scholarship programs supported by the IC.
Additionally, the Agreement directs that ODNI, acting
through the Executive Agent for the IC CAE program, the IC
Chief Human Capital Officer, and the Chief, Office of IC
Equal Opportunity & Diversity, as appropriate, shall:
1. Add a criterion to the IC CAE selection process that
applicants must be part of a consortium or actively
collaborate with under-resourced schools in their area;
2. Work with CAE schools to reach out to rural and under-
resourced schools, including by inviting such schools to
participate in the annual IC CAE colloquium and IC
recruitment events;
3. Increase and formally track the number of competitive IC
internship candidates from IC CAE schools, starting with
Fiscal Year 2016 IC summer internships, and provide a report,
within 180 days of the enactment of this Act, on its plan to
do so;
4. Develop metrics to ascertain whether IC CAE, the Pat
Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program, the Louis Stokes
Educational Scholarship Program, and the Intelligence Officer
Training Program reach a diverse demographic and serve as
feeders to the IC workforce;
5. Include in the annual report on minority hiring and
retention a breakdown of the students participating in these
programs who serve as IC interns, applied for full-time IC
employment, received offers of employment, and entered on
duty in the IC;
6. Conduct a feasibility study with necessary funding
levels regarding how the IC CAE could be better tailored to
serve under-resourced schools, and provide such study to the
congressional intelligence committees within 180 days of the
enactment of this Act;
7. Publicize all IC elements' recruitment activities,
including the new Applicant Gateway and the IC Virtual Career
Fair, to rural schools, Historically Black Colleges and
Universities, and other minority-serving institutions that
have been contacted by IC recruiters;
8. Contact new groups with the objective of expanding the
IC Heritage Community Liaison Council; and
9. Ensure that IC elements add such activities listed above
that may be appropriate to their recruitment plans for Fiscal
Year 2016.
ODNI shall provide an interim update to the congressional
intelligence committees on its efforts within 90 days of the
enactment of this Act and include final results in its annual
report on minority hiring and retention.
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Analytic Duplication & Improving Customer Impact
The congressional intelligence committees are concerned
about potential duplication in finished analytic products.
Specifically, the congressional intelligence committees are
concerned that contemporaneous publication of substantially
similar intelligence products fosters confusion among
intelligence customers (including those in Congress), impedes
analytic coherence across the IC, and wastes time and effort.
The congressional intelligence committees value competitive
analysis, but believe there is room to reduce duplicative
analytic activity and improve customer impact.
Therefore, the Agreement directs ODNI to pilot a repeatable
methodology to evaluate potential duplication in finished
intelligence analytic products and to report the findings to
the congressional intelligence committees within 60 days of
the enactment of this Act. In addition, the Agreement directs
ODNI to report to the congressional intelligence committees
within 180 days of enactment of this Act on how it will
revise analytic practice, tradecraft, and standards to ensure
customers can clearly identify how products that are produced
contemporaneously and cover similar topics differ from one
another in their methodological, informational, or temporal
aspects, and the significance of those differences. This
report is not intended to cover operationally urgent analysis
or current intelligence.
Countering Violent Extremism and the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant
The Agreement directs ODNI, within 180 days of enactment of
this Act and in consultation with appropriate interagency
partners, to brief the congressional intelligence committees
on how intelligence agencies are supporting both (1) the
Administration's Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program
first detailed in the 2011 White House strategy Empowering
Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United
States, which was expanded following the January 2015 White
House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, and (2) the
Administration's Strategy to Counter the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant, which was announced in September 2014.
Analytic Health Reports
The Agreement directs the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
to provide Analytic Health Reports to the congressional
intelligence committees on a quarterly basis, including an
update on the specific effect of analytic modernization on
the health of the Defense Intelligence Analysis Program
(DIAP) and its ability to reduce analytic risk.
All-Source Analysis Standards
The Agreement directs DIA to conduct a comprehensive
evaluation of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise's all-
source analysis capability and production in Fiscal Year
2015. The evaluation should assess the analytic output of
both NIP and MW funded all-source analysts, separately and
collectively, and apply the following four criteria
identified in the ODNI Strategic Evaluation Report for all-
source analysis: 1) integrated, 2) objective, 3) timely, and
4) value-added. The results of this evaluation shall be
included as part of the Fiscal Year 2017 congressional budget
justification book.
Terrorism Investigations
The Agreement directs the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) to submit to the congressional intelligence committees,
within 180 days of enactment of this Act, a report detailing
how FBI has allocated resources between domestic and foreign
terrorist threats based on numbers of investigations over the
past 5 years. The report should be submitted in unclassified
form but may include a classified annex.
Investigations of Minors Involved in Radicalization
The Agreement directs the FBI to provide a briefing to the
congressional intelligence committees within 180 days of
enactment of this Act on investigations in which minors are
encouraged to turn away from violent extremism rather than
take actions that would lead to Federal terrorism
indictments. This briefing should place these rates in the
context of all investigations of minors for violent extremist
activity and should describe any FBI engagement with minors'
families, law enforcement, or other individuals or groups
connected to the minor during or after investigations.
Furthermore, the Agreement directs the FBI to include how
often undercover agents pursue investigations based on a
location of interest related to violent extremist activity
compared to investigations of an individual or group believed
to be engaged in such activity. Included should be the number
of locations of interest associated with a religious group or
entity. This briefing also should include trend analysis
covering the last five years describing violent extremist
activity in the U.S.
Declassification Review of Video of the 2012 Benghazi
Terrorist Attacks
Numerous investigations have been conducted regarding the
2012 terrorist attack against U.S. facilities in Benghazi.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence produced one of
the first declassified Congressional reports and continues to
believe that the public should have access to information
about the attacks, so long as it does not jeopardize
intelligence sources and methods.
The closed circuit television videos from the Temporary
Mission Facility (TMF) captured some of the activity that
took place at the State Department facility on September 11,
2012, and their release would contribute to the public's
understanding of the event without compromising sources or
methods.
Therefore, the Agreement directs the Director of National
Intelligence, or the appropriate federal official, to conduct
a declassification review and to facilitate the release to
the public of the declassified closed circuit television
videos of the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the TMF
in Benghazi, Libya, consistent with the protection of sources
and methods, not later than 120 days after the enactment of
this Act.
Part III: Section-by-Section Analysis and Explanation of Legislative
Text
The following is a section-by-section analysis and
explanation of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2016.
Title I--Intelligence Activities
Section 101. Authorization of appropriations
Section 101 lists the United States Government departments,
agencies, and other elements for which the Act authorizes
appropriations for intelligence and intelligence-related
activities for Fiscal Year 2016.
Section 102. Classified Schedule of Authorizations
Section 102 provides that the details of the amounts
authorized to be appropriated for intelligence and
intelligence-related activities and the applicable personnel
levels by program for Fiscal Year 2016 are contained in the
classified Schedule of Authorizations and that the classified
Schedule of Authorizations shall be made available to the
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of
Representatives and to the President.
Section 103. Personnel ceiling adjustments
Section 103 is intended to provide additional flexibility
to the Director of National Intelligence in managing the
civilian personnel of the Intelligence Community. Section 103
provides that the Director may authorize employment of
civilian personnel in Fiscal Year 2016 in excess of the
number of authorized positions by an amount not exceeding
three percent of the total limit applicable to each
Intelligence Community element under Section 102. The
Director may do so only if necessary to the performance of
important intelligence functions.
Section 104. Intelligence Community Management Account
Section 104 authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence
Community Management Account (ICMA) of the Director of
National Intelligence and sets the authorized personnel
levels for the elements within the ICMA for Fiscal Year 2016.
Section 105. Clarification regarding authority for flexible
personnel management among elements of intelligence
community
Section 105 clarifies that certain Intelligence Community
elements may make hiring decisions based on the excepted
service designation.
Title II--Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System
Section 201. Authorization of appropriations
Section 201 authorizes appropriations in the amount of
$514,000,000 for Fiscal Year 2016 for the Central
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund.
Title III--General Provisions
Section 301. Increase in employee compensation and benefits
authorized by law
Section 301 provides that funds authorized to be
appropriated by the Act for salary, pay, retirement, and
other benefits for federal employees may be increased by such
additional or supplemental amounts as may be necessary for
increases in compensation or benefits authorized by law.
Section 302. Restriction on conduct of intelligence
activities
Section 302 provides that the authorization of
appropriations by the Act shall not be deemed to constitute
authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity that
is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of
the United States.
Section 303. Provision of information and assistance to
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community
Section 303 amends the National Security Act of 1947 to
clarify the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community's
authority to seek information and assistance from federal,
state, and local agencies, or units thereof.
Section 304. Inclusion of Inspector General of Intelligence
Community in Council of Inspectors General on Integrity
and Efficiency
Section 304 amends Section 11(b)(1)(B) of the Inspector
General Act of 1978 to reflect the correct name of the Office
of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. The
section also clarifies that the Inspector General of the
Intelligence Community is a member of the Council of the
Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.
Section 305. Clarification of authority of Privacy and Civil
Liberties Oversight Board
Section 305 amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) to clarify that nothing in the
statute authorizing the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight
Board should be construed to allow that Board to gain access
to information regarding an activity covered by section 503
of the National Security Act of 1947.
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Section 306. Enhancing government personnel security programs
Section 306 directs the Director of National Intelligence
to develop and implement a plan for eliminating the backlog
of overdue periodic investigations, and further requires the
Director to direct each agency to implement a program to
provide enhanced security review to individuals determined
eligible for access to classified information or eligible to
hold a sensitive position.
These enhanced personnel security programs will integrate
information relevant and appropriate for determining an
individual's suitability for access to classified information
or eligibility to hold a sensitive position; be conducted at
least 2 times every 5 years; and commence not later than 5
years after the date of enactment of the Fiscal Year 2016
Intelligence Authorization Act, or the elimination of the
backlog of overdue periodic investigations, whichever occurs
first.
Section 307. Notification of changes to retention of call
detail record policies
Section 307 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to notify the congressional intelligence committees in
writing not later than 15 days after learning that an
electronic communication service provider that generates call
detail records in the ordinary course of business has changed
its policy on the retention of such call details records to
result in a retention period of less than 18 months. Section
307 further requires the Director to submit to the
congressional intelligence committees within 30 days of
enactment a report identifying each electronic communication
service provider (if any) that has a current policy in place
to retain call detail records for 18 months or less.
Section 308. Personnel information notification policy by the
Director of National Intelligence
Section 308 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to establish a policy to ensure timely notification to the
congressional intelligence committees of the identities of
individuals occupying senior level positions within the
Intelligence Community.
Section 309. Designation of lead intelligence officer for
tunnels
Section 309 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to designate an official to manage the collection and
analysis of intelligence regarding the tactical use of
tunnels by state and nonstate actors.
Section 310. Reporting process for tracking country clearance
requests
Section 310 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to establish a formal reporting process for tracking requests
for country clearance submitted to overseas Director of
National Intelligence representatives. Section 310 also
requires the Director to brief the congressional intelligence
committees on its progress.
Section 311. Study on reduction of analytic duplication
Section 311 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to carry out a study to identify duplicative analytic
products and the reasons for such duplication, ascertain the
frequency and types of such duplication, and determine
whether this review should be considered a part of the
responsibilities assigned to the Analytic Integrity and
Standards office inside the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence. Section 311 also requires the Director
to provide a plan for revising analytic practice, tradecraft,
and standards to ensure customers are able to readily
identify how analytic products on similar topics that are
produced contemporaneously differ from one another and what
is the significance of those differences.
Section 312. Strategy for comprehensive interagency review of
the United States national security overhead satellite
architecture
Section 312 requires the Director of National Intelligence,
in collaboration with the Secretary of Defense, and the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to develop a strategy,
with milestones and benchmarks, to ensure that there is a
comprehensive interagency review of policies and practices
for planning and acquiring national security satellite
systems and architectures, including the capabilities of
commercial systems and partner countries, consistent with the
National Space Policy issued on June 28, 2010. Where
applicable, this strategy shall account for the unique
missions and authorities vested in the Department of Defense
and the Intelligence Community.
Section 313. Cyber attack standards of measurement study
Section 313 directs the Director of National Intelligence,
in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, the
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the
Secretary of Defense, to carry out a study to determine the
appropriate standards to measure the damage of cyber
incidents.
Title IV--Matters Relating to Elements of the Intelligence Community
Subtitle A--Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Section 401. Appointment and confirmation of the National
Counterintelligence Executive
Section 401 makes subject to Presidential appointment and
Senate confirmation, the executive branch position of
National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX), which was
created by the 2002 Counterintelligence Enhancement Act.
Effective December 2014, the NCIX was also dual-hatted as the
Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security
Center.
Section 402. Technical amendments relating to pay under title
5, United States Code
Section 402 amends 5 U.S.C. Sec. 5102(a)(1) to expressly
exclude the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
(ODNI) from the provisions of chapter 51 of title 5, relating
to position classification, pay, and allowances for General
Schedule employees, which does not apply to ODNI by virtue of
the National Security Act. This proposal would have no
substantive effect.
Section 403. Analytic Objectivity Review
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence's
Analytic Integrity and Standards (AIS) office was established
in response to the requirement in the Intelligence Reform and
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) for the designation
of an entity responsible for ensuring that the Intelligence
Community's finished intelligence products are timely,
objective, independent of political considerations, based
upon all sources of available intelligence, and demonstrative
of the standards of proper analytic tradecraft.
Consistent with responsibilities prescribed under IRTPA,
Section 403 requires the AIS Chief to conduct a review of
finished intelligence products produced by the CIA to assess
whether the reorganization of the Agency, announced publicly
on March 6, 2015, has resulted in any loss of analytic
objectivity. The report is due no later than March 6, 2017.
Subtitle B--Central Intelligence Agency and Other Elements
Section 411. Authorities of the Inspector General for the
Central Intelligence Agency
Section 411 amends Section 17 of the Central Intelligence
Agency Act of 1949 to consolidate the Inspector General's
personnel authorities and to provide the Inspector General
with the same authorities as other Inspectors General to
request assistance and information from federal, state, and
local agencies or units thereof.
Section 412. Prior congressional notification of transfers of
funds for certain intelligence activities
Section 412 requires notification to the congressional
intelligence committees before transferring funds from the
Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund or the
Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund that are to be used for
intelligence activities.
Title V--Matters Relating to Foreign Countries
Subtitle A--Matters Relating to Russia
Section 501. Notice of deployment or transfer of Club-K
container missile system by the Russian Federation
Section 501 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to submit written notice to the appropriate congressional
committees if the Intelligence Community receives
intelligence that the Russian Federation has deployed, or is
about to deploy, the Club-K container missile system through
the Russian military, or transferred or sold, or intends
to transfer or sell, such system to another state or non-
state actor.
Section 502. Assessment on funding of political parties and
nongovernmental organizations by the Russian Federation
Section 502 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to submit an Intelligence Community assessment to the
appropriate congressional committees concerning the funding
of political parties and nongovernmental organizations in the
former Soviet States and Europe by the Russian Security
Services since January 1, 2006, not later than 180 days after
the enactment of the Fiscal Year 2016 Intelligence
Authorization Act.
Section 503. Assessment on the use of political
assassinations as a form of statecraft by the Russian
Federation
Section 503 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to submit an Intelligence Community assessment concerning the
use of political assassinations as a form of statecraft by
the Russian Federation to the appropriate congressional
committees, not later than 180 days after the enactment of
the Fiscal Year 2016 Intelligence Authorization Act.
Subtitle B--Matters Relating to Other Countries
Section 511. Report of resources and collection posture with
regard to the South China Sea and East China Sea
Section 511 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to submit to the appropriate congressional committees an
Intelligence Community assessment on Intelligence Community
resourcing and collection posture with regard to the South
China Sea and East China Sea, not later than 180 days after
the enactment of the Fiscal Year 2016 Intelligence
Authorization Act.
Section 512. Use of locally employed staff serving at a
United States diplomatic facility in Cuba
Section 512 requires the Secretary of State, not later than
1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, to ensure
that key supervisory positions at a United States diplomatic
facility in Cuba are occupied by citizens of the United
States who have passed a thorough background check. Further,
not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the provision requires the Secretary of State, in
coordination with other appropriate government agencies, to
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a plan to
further reduce the reliance on locally employed staff in
United
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States diplomatic facilities in Cuba. The plan shall, at a
minimum, include cost estimates, timelines, and numbers of
employees to be replaced.
Section 513. Inclusion of sensitive compartmented information
facilities in United States diplomatic facilities in Cuba
Section 513 requires that each United States diplomatic
facility in Cuba--in which classified information will be
processed or in which classified communications occur--that
is constructed, or undergoes a construction upgrade, be
constructed to include a sensitive compartmented information
facility.
Section 514. Report on use by Iran of funds made available
through sanctions relief
Section 514 requires the Director of National Intelligence,
in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to submit
to the appropriate congressional committees a report
assessing the monetary value of any direct or indirect form
of sanctions relief Iran has received since the Joint Plan of
Action (JPGA) entered into effect, and how Iran has used
funds made available through such sanctions relief. This
report shall be submitted every 180 days while the JPOA is in
effect, and not later than 1 year after an agreement relating
to Iran's nuclear program takes effect, and annually
thereafter while that agreement remains in effect.
Title VI--Matters Relating to United States Naval Station, Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba
Section 601. Prohibition on use of funds for transfer or
release of individual detained at United States Naval
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States
Section 601 states that no amounts authorized to be
appropriated or otherwise made available to an element of the
Intelligence Community may be used to transfer or release
individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay to or within the
United States, its territories, or possessions.
Section 602. Prohibition on use of funds to construct or
modify facilities in the United States to house detainees
transferred from United States Naval Station, Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba
Section 602 states that no amounts authorized to be
appropriated or otherwise made available to an element of the
Intelligence Community may be used to construct or modify
facilities in the United States, its territories, or
possessions to house detainees transferred from Guantanamo
Bay.
Section 603. Prohibition on use of funds for transfer or
release to certain countries of individuals detained at
United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Section 603 states that no amounts authorized to be
appropriated or otherwise made available to an element of the
Intelligence Community may be used to transfer or release an
individual detained at Guantanamo Bay to the custody or
control of any country, or any entity within such country, as
follows: Libya, Somalia, Syria, or Yemen.
Title VII--Reports and other Matters
Subtitle A--Reports
Section 701. Repeal of certain reporting requirements
Section 701 repeals certain reporting requirements.
Section 702. Reports on foreign fighters
Section 702 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to submit a report every 60 days for the three years
following the enactment of this Act to the congressional
intelligence committees on foreign fighter flows to and from
Syria and Iraq. Section 702 requires information on the total
number of foreign fighters who have traveled to Syria or
Iraq, the total number of United States persons who have
traveled or attempted to travel to Syria or Iraq, the total
number of foreign fighters in Terrorist Identities Datamart
Environment, the total number of foreign fighters who have
been processed with biometrics, any programmatic updates to
the foreign fighter report, and a worldwide graphic that
describes foreign fighter flows to and from Syria.
Section 703. Report on strategy, efforts, and resources to
detect, deter, and degrade Islamic State revenue
mechanisms
Section 703 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to submit a report on the strategy, efforts, and resources of
the Intelligence Community that are necessary to detect,
deter, and degrade the revenue mechanisms of the Islamic
State.
Section 704. Report on United States counterterrorism
strategy to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat the Islamic
State, al-Qa'ida, and their affiliated groups, associated
groups, and adherents
Section 704 requires the President to submit to the
appropriated congressional committees a comprehensive report
on the counterterrorism strategy to disrupt, dismantle, and
defeat the Islamic State, al-Qa'ida, and their affiliated
groups associated groups, and adherents.
Section 705. Report on effects of data breach of Office of
Personnel Management
Section 705 requires the President to transmit to the
congressional intelligence communities a report on the data
breach of the Office of Personnel Management. Section 705
requires information on the impact of the breach on
Intelligence Community operations abroad, in addition to an
assessment of how foreign persons, groups, or countries may
use data collected by the breach and what Federal Government
agencies use best practices to protect sensitive data.
Section 706. Report on hiring of graduates of Cyber Corps
Scholarship Program by intelligence community
Section 706 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to submit to the congressional intelligence committees a
report on the employment by the Intelligence Community of
graduates of the Cyber Corps Scholarship Program. Section 706
requires information on the number of graduates hired by each
element of the Intelligence Community, the recruitment
process for each element of the Intelligence Community, and
the Director recommendations for improving the hiring
process.
Section 707. Report on use of certain business concerns
Section 707 requires the Director of National Intelligence
to submit to the congressional intelligence committees a
report of covered business concerns--including minority-
owned, women-owned, small disadvantaged, service-enabled
veteran-owned, and veteran-owned small businesses--among
contractors that are awarded contracts by the Intelligence
Community for goods, equipment, tools and services.
Subtitle B--Other Matters
Section 711. Use of homeland security grant funds in
conjunction with Department of Energy national
laboratories
Section 711 amends Section 2008(a) of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 to clarify that the Department of Energy's
national laboratories may seek access to homeland security
grant funds.
Section 712. Inclusion of certain minority-serving
institutions in grant program to enhance recruiting of
intelligence community workforce
Section 712 amends the National Security Act of 1947 to
include certain minority-serving institutions in the
intelligence officer training programs established under
Section 1024 of the Act.
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