Sec. 606. Report on geospatial commercial activities for basic and applied research and development
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the feasibility, risks, costs, and benefits of providing the private sector and academia, on a need-driven, tailored basis and consistent with the protection of sources and methods and civil liberties, access to data in the possession of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for the purpose of fostering the efforts of the private sector and academia in basic research, applied research, data transfers, and development projects, with respect to automation, artificial intelligence, and associated algorithms.
The report under subsection
(a)shall include— the identification of any additional authorities that the Director requires to provide the private sector and academia with the access to data described in such subsection, on a need-driven, tailored basis and consistent with applicable laws and procedures relating to the protection of sources and methods, privacy, and civil liberties; and market research to— assess the commercial and academic interest in such data; and determine likely private-sector entities and institutions of higher education interested in public-private partnerships relating to such data. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate; and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.