Sec. 6. Database on reports on investigations

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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall establish and maintain within the Department of Defense a database that preserves and organizes reports of the Department on investigations of civilian casualties resulting from United States military operations (including reports under section 1057 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, as amended by section 3 of this Act), and the results of such investigations. The database required by subsection

(a)shall be searchable by personnel across the Department. The public shall have access to, and be able to search, the database required by subsection

(a)through an internet website of the Department that is available to the public. For purposes of such access, appropriate information in the database may be maintained in a classified annex in the interests of the national security of the United States, and access to such annex appropriately limited. The database required by subsection

(a)shall be updated not less frequently than once each year.