S-4443 : Still Just a Bill

The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (S.4443) authorizes appropriations for:

• Intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the U.S. government
• The Intelligence Community Management Account
• The Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System

Key provisions include:

• Addressing conflicts of interest in the Intelligence Innovation Board.
• Improving national counterintelligence strategies.
• Protecting Central Intelligence Agency facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft.
• Countering threats from China, Russia, and international terrorism.
• Enhancing the security of emerging technologies like biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
• Reforming the classification and declassification of information.
• Improving security clearances and the intelligence community workforce.
• Strengthening whistleblower protections.
• Addressing anomalous health incidents and unidentified anomalous phenomena.
• Providing awards to eligible persons who worked for Air America.
• Enhancing authorities for amicus curiae under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
• Strengthening election cybersecurity.