Sec. 603. Government Accountability Office study and report on modernization initiative of the Central Intelligence Agency
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The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on the impacts of the Central Intelligence Agency’s modernization initiative. The study required under subsection
(a)may include the following: An assessment of the Agency’s implementation of changes pursuant to the modernization initiative, including organizational changes and changes to Agency activities. An assessment of how any new administrative requirements made pursuant to the modernization initiative have affected Agency activities. An evaluation of whether the Agency’s implementation of changes pursuant to the modernization initiative have affected the Agency’s ability to anticipate and respond to emerging issues. An assessment of the extent to which the Agency’s implementation of changes pursuant to the modernization initiative have— fostered an organizational climate and structure that allows personnel in analytic and operational fields to take professional risks; grown the role of analytic personnel and provided opportunities for them to become subject matter experts within the analytical career fields; and changed the number of personnel from analytical fields represented in managerial and policy positions. Other matters deemed relevant by the Comptroller General. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees a briefing on the preliminary findings of the study conducted under subsection
(a)at a time that is mutually agreed upon by the appropriate congressional committees and the Comptroller General. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the results of the study conducted under subsection
(a). The report required under this subsection shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Appropriations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Appropriations and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. The term Agency means the Central Intelligence Agency.