Sec. 8304. Security assistance database
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The Secretary shall maintain an online database which contains the information described in subsection (b). Such database may be combined with the database required under section 8301. The database required under subsection
(a)shall include— the type, dollar value, and quantity of defense articles (including excess defense articles), defense services, and international military education and training furnished by the United States to each foreign country and international organization; the provision of law under which such article, service, and education or training was furnished; the dollar value, quantity, and end user of semiautomatic assault weapons, or spare parts for such weapons, the manufacture, transfer, or possession of which is unlawful under section 922 of title 18, United States Code, receiving a license for export; and for military education and training provided to foreign military personnel, the type of training, the number of foreign military personnel trained, their units of operation, and the location of the training. With respect to military education and training provided under subsection (b)(4), the Secretary of Defense shall develop and maintain records, which shall not be subject to the requirements for public availability in subsection (e), for each foreign military and defense participant in military education and training activities conducted under this or any other Act. Such database shall be made available to the Secretary of State and shall include the type of instruction received, the dates and location of such instruction, whether such instruction was completed successfully, and, to the extent practicable, the person’s subsequent military or defense ministry career and current position and location. Not later than March 1 of each year, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing any involvement of a foreign military or defense participant in military education and training activities under this or any other Act in a violation of internationally recognized human rights subsequent to such participation. Such report shall be in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the database required under subsection
(a)is updated to include the information reported to Congress pursuant to paragraph
(2)The Secretary shall ensure that the database required under this section is operative not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and shall prescribe such procedures as are necessary to ensure that the required information is entered into the database in a timely manner and continuously updated. The database required under this section shall be made publicly available on the Internet and shall be structured so that users may search the data by word and sort the data by field. The database described in subsection
(a)shall be in unclassified form and shall exclude any activity that is reportable under title V of the National Security Act of 1947.