HR-8512 : Still Just a Bill

The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (H.R. 8512) authorizes appropriations for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the U.S. Government for fiscal year 2025. Key provisions include:

• Intelligence Activities: Authorizes funding for intelligence activities, specifying amounts in a classified schedule.
• Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System: Allocates \$514,000,000 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for fiscal year 2025.
• General Intelligence Matters: Addresses issues such as secure communication between Congress and the intelligence community and establishes a commission to examine the national security and defense risks posed by anomalous health incidents.
• National Intelligence Enterprise: Includes measures related to congressional notifications of misconduct, improvements to urgent concerns reported to Inspectors General, protection for individuals disclosing information to Inspectors General, codification of the National Intelligence Management Council, and analysis of proposed investments into the United States.
• Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture: Focuses on increasing resources in geomatics, designating a Department of Defense Senior Intelligence Oversight Official, and extending the Department of Defense intelligence and counterintelligence expense authority.
• Central Intelligence Agency: Sets requirements for the Special Victim Investigator and establishes reserve for contingencies notification requirement.
• Technology and Innovation: Addresses sensitive compartmented information facility accreditation, intelligence community research security, and requires data on security clearance and polygraph examination timeliness.

The bill also includes several reporting requirements and strategies related to foreign malign influence, intelligence support for executive branch agencies, recruitment efforts within the intelligence community, and economic coercion by the People's Republic of China.