S-2103 : Still Just a Bill

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024

This bill authorizes various intelligence-related activities for FY2024 and addresses related issues.

For example, the bill

• modifies the requirements for a Department of Defense scholarship program for certain individuals pursuing cyber or digital technology degrees to allow scholarship recipients to fulfill their post-graduation employment obligation in the intelligence community;
• expands eligibility to receive in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education to members of the intelligence community on active duty for more than 30 days and their spouses and dependent children;
• requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to designate a senior official to serve as the intelligence community coordinator for accountability of China's atrocities (i.e., crimes against humanity, genocide, or war crimes);
• requires the ODNI to produce a national intelligence estimate on the implications of the ongoing war in Ukraine with respect to a long-term U.S. and NATO confrontation with Russia;
• requires the President to establish an office for analysis of global competition to carry out analysis and support policy development related to U.S. leadership in science, technology, and innovation relative to other countries;
• requires intelligence community Inspectors General to appoint security officers to provide confidential, security-related guidance to employees and contract employees who intend to make a complaint or provide information to Congress;
• defines circumstantial evidence that may be used in determining whether an adverse security clearance or access determination was a reprisal for the lawful disclosure of actions such as mismanagement, waste, abuse, or a violation of federal law;
• revises statutory requirements regarding classification and declassification of national security information; and
• defines the process whereby certain records of the President or Vice President may be designated as personal records in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration.