Sec. 503. Study and report on enhanced intelligence and information sharing with Open Skies Treaty member states

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In this section: The term appropriate committees of Congress means— congressional intelligence committees; the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. The term covered state party means a foreign country, that— was a state party to the Open Skies Treaty on February 22, 2016; and is not the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus.

The term Open Skies Treaty means the Treaty on Open Skies, done at Helsinki March 24, 1992, and entered into force January 1, 2002. Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall conduct and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a study to determine the feasibility of creating an intelligence sharing arrangement and database to provide covered state parties with imagery that is comparable, delivered more frequently, and in equal or higher resolution than imagery available through the database established under the Open Skies Treaty.

The study required by paragraph

(1)shall include an evaluation of the following: The methods by which the United States could collect and provide imagery, including commercial satellite imagery, national technical means, and through other intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms, under an information sharing arrangement and database referred to in paragraph (1). The ability of other covered state parties to contribute imagery to the arrangement and database. Any impediments to United States and other covered states parties providing such imagery, including any statutory barriers, insufficiencies in the ability to collect the imagery or funding, under such an arrangement. Whether imagery of Moscow, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kaliningrad, or the Republic of Belarus could be provided under such an arrangement. The annual and projected costs associated with the establishment of such an arrangement and database, as compared with costs to the United States and other covered state parties of being parties to the Open Skies Treaty, including Open Skies Treaty plane maintenance, aircraft fuel, crew expenses, mitigation measures necessary associated with Russian Federation overflights over the United States or covered state parties, and new sensor development and acquisition. Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the report described in this subsection. The report required by paragraph

(1)shall include the following: An update on Russian Federation warfighting doctrine and the extent to which Russian Federation flights under the Open Skies Treaty contribute to such doctrine. A counterintelligence analysis as whether the Russian Federation has, could have, or intends to have the capability to exceed the imagery limits set forth in the Open Skies Treaty. A list of the covered state parties that have been updated on the information described in subparagraphs

(A)and

(B)and the date and form such information was provided. An analysis of— the benefits the United States derives by being a party to the Open Skies Treaty; and the potential implications and reactions of covered state parties if the United States withdraws from the Open Skies Treaty and the information sharing architecture of the Open Skies Treaty is replaced with one described in subsection (b). The study required by subsection

(b)and the report required by subsection

(c)shall be submitted in an unclassified form but may include a classified annex.