Sec. 433. Framework for roles, missions, and functions of Defense Intelligence Agency
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The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense shall jointly establish a framework to ensure the appropriate balance of resources for the roles, missions, and functions of the Defense Intelligence Agency in its capacity as an element of the intelligence community and as a combat support agency. The framework shall include supporting processes to provide for the consistent and regular reevaluation of the responsibilities and resources of the Defense Intelligence Agency to prevent imbalanced priorities, insufficient or misaligned resources, and the unauthorized expansion of mission parameters. The framework required under subsection
(a)shall include each of the following: A lexicon providing for consistent definitions of relevant terms used by both the intelligence community and the Department of Defense, including each of the following: Defense intelligence enterprise. Enterprise manager. Executive agent. Function. Functional manager. Mission. Mission manager. Responsibility. Role. Service of common concern. An assessment of the necessity of maintaining separate designations for the intelligence community and the Department of Defense for intelligence functional or enterprise management constructs. A repeatable process for evaluating the addition, transfer, or elimination of defense intelligence missions, roles, and functions, currently performed or to be performed in the future by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which includes each of the following: A justification for the addition, transfer, or elimination of a mission, role, or function. The identification of which, if any, element of the Federal Government performs the considered mission, role, or function. In the case of any new mission, role, or function— an assessment of the most appropriate agency or element to perform such mission, role, or function, taking into account the resource profiles, scope of responsibilities, primary customers, and existing infrastructure necessary to support such mission, role, or function; and a determination of the appropriate resource profile and an identification of the projected resources needed and the proposed source of such resources over the future-years defense program, to be provided in writing to any elements of the intelligence community or the Department of Defense affected by the assumption, transfer, or elimination of any mission, role, or function. In the case of any mission, role, or function proposed to be assumed, transferred, or eliminated, an assessment, which shall be completed jointly by the heads of each element affected by such assumption, transfer, or elimination, of the risks that would be assumed by the intelligence community and the Department if such mission, role, or function is assumed, transferred, or eliminated. A description of how determinations are made regarding the funding of programs and activities under the National Intelligence Program and the Military Intelligence Program, including— which programs or activities are funded under each such Program; which programs or activities should be jointly funded under both such Programs and how determinations are made with respect to funding allocations for such programs and activities; and the thresholds and process for changing a program or activity from being funded under one such Program to being funded under the other such Program.