Sec. 1079. Annual report on observation flights over the United States under the Open Skies Treaty
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Not less frequently than once each year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the observation flights over the United States under the Open Skies Treaty during the previous year. Each report required by paragraph
(1)shall include, for each observation flight described in such paragraph covered by such report, the following: A description of the flight path of such observation flight. An analysis of whether and the extent to which any critical infrastructure of the United States or any covered state party critical was the subject of image capture activities of such observation flight. A description of the mitigation measures and costs imposed on the Department of Defense or other departments and agencies of the United States Government by such observation flight. In the first report submitted under subsection (a), the Secretary shall also include an upgrade roadmap for the observation aircraft of the United States under the Open Skies Treaty that are located at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and for any analysis and support staff and equipment required in connection with such aircraft. In this section: The term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. The term covered state party means a foreign country that— is a state party to the Open Skies Treaty; and is not the Russian Federation or Belarus. The terms observation flight and observation aircraft have the meaning given such terms in Article II of the Open Skies Treaty. The term Open Skies Treaty means the Treaty on Open Skies, done at Helsinki March 24, 1992, and entered into force January 1, 2002.