Sec. 932. Reports on clandestine human intelligence collection
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Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, acting through the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation of the Department of Defense and in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence (acting through the Director of the Cost Analysis Improvement Group) and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress an assessment of the savings and added effectiveness to be achieved in clandestine human intelligence collection by consolidating clandestine human intelligence collection operations in the National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency through the establishment of a military support division in the National Clandestine Service.
For the purposes of the assessment required by paragraph (1), the Secretary and the Director of National Intelligence shall assume that the military and civilian case officers and support personnel in the military support division referred to in that paragraph shall be detailed to the National Clandestine Service under the supervision of a general or flag officer of the Armed Forces assigned to the National Clandestine Service. The assessment required by paragraph
(1)shall include the following: A determination whether savings could be achieved through the reduction of overhead and management by eliminating the clandestine human intelligence (HUMINT) management element at the Defense Intelligence Agency. The development and use of a methodology for comparing the effectiveness of the ratios of support personnel to deployed case officers maintained by the Central Intelligence Agency and the military support division referred to in paragraph (1), and a recommendation on an optimum ratio of support personnel to deployed case officers for the military support division. A determination whether institutional and procedural safeguards are available to ensure that the Department of Defense could rely on the National Clandestine Service, with the military support division referred to in paragraph (1), to support the human intelligence collection requirements of the Department, and, if so, a description of such safeguards. A determination of the advisability of conducting a pilot program on a military support division within the National Clandestine Service using available personnel. Not later than January 15, 2015, the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report setting forth an assessment of the implementation of the Defense Clandestine Service through September 30, 2014. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall include an assessment of the following: The commitment and ability of the Armed Forces to provide and sustain qualified military case officers and to manage their careers effectively. The ability of the Defense Intelligence Agency to provide effective cover and support for case officers deployed overseas with the planned ratio of support personnel to case officers. Whether the locations overseas where capacity exists to deploy additional Department of Defense case officers can address the human intelligence collection needs of the Department. In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.