Sec. 1206. Authority to build the capacity of foreign military intelligence forces
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The Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence of the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, is authorized to conduct or support a program or programs to train the military intelligence forces of a foreign county in order for that country to— improve interoperability with United States and allied forces; enhance the capacity of such forces to receive and act upon time-sensitive intelligence; increase the capacity and capability of such forces to fuse and analyze intelligence; and ensure the ability of such forces to support the military forces of that country in conducting lawful military operations in which intelligence plays a critical role.
A program under subsection
(a)may include the provision of training, and associated supplies and support. A program under subsection
(a)shall include elements that promote the following: Observance of and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. Respect for civilian control of the military. Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for a fiscal year and available for the military intelligence program (MIP), the Secretary of Defense may use up to $25,000,000 in such fiscal year to carry out programs authorized by subsection (a). The Secretary of Defense may not use the authority in subsection
(a)to provide any type of assistance described in subsection
(b)that is otherwise prohibited by any provision of law. The Secretary of Defense may not use the authority in subsection
(a)to provide assistance described in subsection
(b)to any foreign country that is otherwise prohibited from receiving such assistance under any other provision of law. Not less than 15 days before initiating activities under a program under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a notice on the following: The country whose capacity to engage in activities in subsection
(a)will be built under the program. The budget, implementation timeline with milestones, military department responsible for management and associated program executive office, and completion date for the program. Assurances, if any, provided with respect to an enduring arrangement between the United States and the forces provided training pursuant to subsection (a). The objectives and assessment framework to be used to develop capability and performance metrics associated with operational outcomes for the recipient forces. An assessment of the capacity of the recipient country to absorb assistance under the program. An assessment of the manner in which the program fits into the theater security cooperation strategy of the applicable geographic combatant command. In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.