Bill > S4615

This bill, titled the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027," authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for the United States Government's intelligence and intelligence-related activities, including the Intelligence Community Management Account and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System. It makes several changes to the structure and operations of intelligence agencies, such as redesignating the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence as the Deputy Director of National Intelligence and establishing Assistant Directors of National Intelligence, while also repealing certain councils and units like the National Intelligence Management Council and the Intelligence Community Innovation Unit. The bill transfers the National Intelligence University to the National Defense University, clarifies limitations on domestic activities at the National Counterterrorism Center, and mandates timely security direction for intelligence community whistleblowers. It also extends the Central Intelligence Agency's authority regarding unmanned aircraft systems and modifies security personnel roles at certain installations. Furthermore, the bill enhances the National Security Agency's authority to correlate and disseminate intelligence, prohibits certain funds for relocating the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and allows the National Reconnaissance Office to use appropriated and non-appropriated funds for foreign intelligence activities. It also modifies reporting requirements for the FBI, establishes an Office of Counterintelligence within the Department of the Treasury, and revises the responsibilities of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis within the Department of Homeland Security. The bill clarifies the National Security Agency's role in signals intelligence, adjusts presidential appointment requirements for various intelligence positions, and establishes procedures for disseminating nonpublicly available information concerning United States persons, including specific rules for unmasking requests during presidential transition periods. It mandates analytic standards for all-source intelligence products, limits the use of Intelligence Community Management Account funds for certain entities receiving foreign government support, and establishes the Ben Sasse Intelligence Community Technology Fellowship Program. The bill also creates an Intelligence Community Counterintelligence Office at the Department of Commerce, designates countering hostile foreign cyber actors as a national intelligence priority, and requires notification of criminal referrals regarding intelligence community employees. It prohibits the intelligence community's use of adversary unmanned ground vehicles and establishes a China-Taiwan Strategic Warning Task Force. Additionally, the bill imposes limitations on Chinese products and services within the intelligence community, restricts intelligence community support for offensive cyber operations by non-governmental entities, and outlines provisions for biological intelligence activities, including the collection and dissemination of anonymized biological data and intelligence related to foreign biological threats. It prohibits intelligence community personnel from participating in prediction markets on topics related to nonpublic information and repeals various reporting and briefing requirements. The bill also regulates intelligence community personnel travel, allowances, and expenses, prohibits sending and receiving objects using entities controlled by certain foreign countries, and enhances intelligence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. It outlines intelligence activities related to Ukraine, including continued support and specific requirements in the event of an armistice or attack, and establishes requirements for intelligence sharing with countries of significant concern to the United States, including Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. The bill addresses artificial intelligence matters by establishing a pilot program for sharing intelligence and threat information with covered persons, reviewing the intelligence community's use of AI for targeting, improving AI policies and standards, and requiring clear labeling of AI outputs for targeting workflows. It also mandates research on AI's role in inadvertent escalation and its interaction with intelligence community systems, requires proliferation assessments for AI technology exports, and mandates a review of AI security vulnerabilities under the Vulnerabilities Equities Process. The bill prohibits certain AI models on intelligence community systems, particularly those generating child pornography or non-consensual intimate imagery, and includes provisions for national security and research waivers. Finally, it modifies notification requirements for authorized and ordered departures, identifies reallocable frequencies, enhances the protection of classified information relating to budget functions, includes real estate transactions near intelligence community facilities in reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, provides intelligence support to the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, establishes processes for protecting Federal Reserve information, amends laws to prohibit payments for national security information or approvals, clarifies espionage offenses, expands parental bereavement leave, modifies the definition of foreign instrumentality for economic espionage, strengthens protections for trade secrets, and makes technical amendments to various acts.