Sec. 8103.
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None of the funds appropriated in this or any other Act may be used to take any action to modify— the appropriations account structure for the National Intelligence Program budget, including through the creation of a new appropriation or new appropriations account; how the National Intelligence Program budget request is presented, organized, and managed within the Department of Defense budget; how the National Intelligence Program appropriations are apportioned to the executing agencies; or how the National Intelligence Program appropriations are allotted, obligated and disbursed.
The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense may jointly, only for the purposes of achieving auditable financial statements and improving fiscal reporting, study and develop detailed proposals for alternative financial management processes. Such study shall include a comprehensive counterintelligence risk assessment to ensure that none of the alternative processes will adversely affect counterintelligence. Upon development of the detailed proposals defined under subsection (b), the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense shall— provide the proposed alternatives to all affected agencies; receive certification from all affected agencies attesting that the proposed alternatives will help achieve auditability, improve fiscal reporting, and will not adversely affect counterintelligence; and not later than 30 days after receiving all necessary certifications under paragraph (2), present the proposed alternatives and certifications to the congressional defense and intelligence committees.
This section shall not be construed to alter or affect the application of section 924 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 to the amounts made available by this Act. The Director of National Intelligence shall carry out a merger of the Foreign Counterintelligence Program into the General Defense Intelligence Program: Provided , That such merger shall not go into effect until 30 days after the Director submits to the congressional intelligence committees a written notification of such merger.