S.4615

Calendar No. 420

S. 4615

May 20, 2026

Mr. Cotton, from the Select Committee on Intelligence, reported the following original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar

A BILL

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Intelligence Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

1. Short title; table of contents; 2. Definitions; TITLE I—INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES; 101. Authorization of appropriations; 102. Classified Schedule of Authorizations; 103. Intelligence Community Management Account; 104. Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by law; TITLE II—CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM; 201. Authorization of appropriations; TITLE III—MATTERS RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE; 301. Appointment of Deputy Director of National Intelligence and Assistant Directors of National Intelligence; 302. Repeal of National Intelligence Management Council; 303. Repeal of various positions, units, centers, councils, and offices; 304. Transfer of National Intelligence University; 305. Limitation on domestic activities at the National Counterterrorism Center; 306. Timely provision of security direction to intelligence community whistleblowers; 307. Notification of certain declassifications; 308. No police, subpoena, or law enforcement powers or internal security functions for Director of National Intelligence; TITLE IV—MATTERS RELATING TO THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY; 401. Extension of Central Intelligence Agency authority regarding unmanned aircraft systems; 402. Higher Education Act of 1965 special rule; 403. Modification relating to security personnel at certain installations; TITLE V—MATTERS RELATING TO OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY; 501. Authority of National Security Agency to correlate, evaluate, and disseminate certain intelligence; 502. Prohibition on availability of funds for relocation of Office of Intelligence and Analysis to certain facilities; 503. Funds for foreign intelligence activities conducted with and by the National Reconnaissance Office; 504. Modification of annual report on Federal Bureau of Investigation case data; 505. Establishment of Office of Counterintelligence; 506. Modification of responsibilities of Office of Intelligence and Analysis; 507. Role of National Security Agency in collection and analysis of signals intelligence; TITLE VI—GENERAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MATTERS; 601. Amendments to presidential appointments for intelligence community positions; 602. Procedures regarding dissemination of nonpublicly available information concerning United States persons; 603. Analytic standards for all-source intelligence products; 604. Limitation on use of Intelligence Community Management Account funds for certain entities; 605. Ben Sasse Intelligence Community Technology Fellowship Program; 606. Intelligence Community Counterintelligence Office at the Department of Commerce; 607. Countering hostile foreign cyber actors as a national intelligence priority; 608. Notification of criminal referrals regarding current or former intelligence community employees; 609. Modification of definitions in National Security Act of 1947 and scope of intelligence sharing responsibilities of Director of National Intelligence; 610. Prohibition on intelligence community use of adversary unmanned ground vehicles; 611. China-Taiwan Strategic Warning Task Force; 612. Limitations relating to Chinese products and services; 613. Limitation on intelligence community support for offensive cyber operations conducted by nongovernmental entities; 614. Biological intelligence activities of the intelligence community; 615. Prohibition on participation in prediction markets; 616. Repeal of certain report and briefing requirements; 617. Intelligence community personnel travel, allowances, and related expenses regulations; 618. Prohibition on sending and receiving objects using entities owned or controlled by persons or governments of certain countries; 619. Enhancing intelligence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region; 620. Intelligence activities related to Ukraine; 621. Requirements relating to intelligence sharing with countries of significant concern to the United States; 622. United States-Israel intelligence sharing enhancement; TITLE VII—ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MATTERS RELATING TO THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY; 701. Artificial intelligence exploitation guard and intelligence sharing; 702. Director of National Intelligence review of intelligence community use of artificial intelligence to support targeting; 703. Improvements for artificial intelligence policies, standards, and guidance for intelligence community; 704. Additional functions and requirements of Artificial Intelligence Security Center; 705. Reports on novel uses of artificial intelligence technology; 706. Clear labeling of artificial intelligence outputs for targeting workflows; 707. Research on use of artificial intelligence relating to inadvertent escalation; 708. Research on interaction of adversarial artificial intelligence systems with intelligence community systems; 709. Proliferation assessments regarding the export of artificial intelligence-related technologies; 710. Review of artificial intelligence security vulnerabilities under Vulnerabilities Equities Process; 711. Prohibition on certain artificial intelligence models on intelligence community systems; TITLE VIII—OTHER MATTERS; 801. Modification to notification requirements for authorized and ordered departures; 802. Identification of reallocable frequencies; 803. Protection of classified information relating to budget functions; 804. Review by Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States of transactions in real estate near intelligence community facilities; 805. Intelligence support to the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation; 806. Establishing processes and procedures for protecting Federal Reserve information; 807. Amendments to prohibit payments to obtain national security information or approvals; 808. Offenses involving espionage; 809. Parental bereavement leave; 810. Definition of foreign instrumentality for purposes of economic espionage prohibition; 811. Protection of trade secrets; 812. Technical amendments