[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 163 (Tuesday, September 21, 2021)]
  [House]
  [Pages H4596-H4861]


          NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022

                           (House version)

                              H.R. 4350
[...]

SEC. 1612. STRATEGY AND PLAN TO IMPLEMENT CERTAIN DEFENSE
               INTELLIGENCE REFORMS.

   (a) Strategy and Plan.--The Secretary of Defense, in
 coordination with the Director of National Intelligence,
 shall develop and implement a strategy and plan to better
 support the intelligence priorities of the commanders of the
 combatant commands, including with respect to efforts to
 counter in the open malign activities of adversaries of the
 United States.
   (b) Matters Included in Plan.--The plan under subsection
 (a) shall include the following:
   (1) A plan to adapt policies and procedures to assemble and
 release facts about the malign activities of an adversary
 described in such subsection in a timely way and in forms
 that allow for greater distribution and release.
   (2) A plan to develop and publish validated priority
 intelligence requirements of the commanders of the combatant
 commands.
   (3) A plan to elevate open-source intelligence to a
 foundational intelligence for strategic intelligence that is
 treated on par with information collected from classified
 means (for example, human intelligence, signals intelligence,
 and geospatial intelligence).
   (4) A plan for expanding the use of unclassified
 intelligence in order to combat threats from disinformation
 and misinformation by foreign adversaries.
   (5) A review by each element of the intelligence community
 of the approaches used by that element--
   (A) with respect to intelligence that has not been
 processed or analyzed, to separate out data from the sources
 and methods by which the data is obtained (commonly known as
 ``tearlining''); and
   (B) with respect to finished intelligence products that
 relate to malign activities of an adversary described in
 subsection (a), to downgrade the classification level of the
 product.
   (c) Congressional Briefing.--Not later than one year after
 the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually
 thereafter through December 31, 2026, the Secretary and the
 Director shall jointly provide to the appropriate
 congressional committees a briefing on the strategy and plan
 under subsection (a).
   (d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
 section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
 means the following:
   (1) The congressional defense committees.
   (2) The Committee on the Judiciary and the Permanent Select
 Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
   (3) The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Committee
 on Intelligence of the Senate.




from the report on the bill (H. Rept. 117-118):

Section 1612--Strategy and Plan to Implement Certain Defense
                     Intelligence Reforms

This section would require the Director of National
Intelligence, in coordination with the Under Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence and Security, to develop and implement
a strategy and plan to support the priorities of the combatant
commanders, including efforts to counter the malign activities
of adversaries of the United States.