Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Title I—Intelligence Activities Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 102. Classified schedule of authorizations. Sec. 103. Intelligence Community Management Account. Title II—Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations.
Title III—Counterintelligence Reform Sec. 301. Short title. Sec. 302. Establishment, functions, and authorities of the National Counterintelligence Center. Sec. 303. Transition provisions. Sec. 304. Conforming amendments. Title IV—General Intelligence Community Matters Sec. 401. Restriction on conduct of intelligence activities. Sec. 402. Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by law. Sec. 403. Intelligence acquisition enhancement. Sec. 404. Senior officials for biotechnology.
Sec. 405. Prohibition on use of DeepSeek on intelligence community systems. Sec. 406. Knowledge management system for international cartels and other transnational criminal organizations. Sec. 407. Notice of impact of diplomatic and consular post closings on intelligence activities. Sec. 408. Harmonizing policies on the use of classified data in training or refining artificial intelligence models. Sec. 409. Accelerating review of artificial intelligence capabilities for deployment.
Sec. 410. Enhancing intelligence community technology adoption metrics. Sec. 411. AI security playbook. Title V—Matters Relating to Elements of the Intelligence Community Subtitle A—Central Intelligence Agency Sec. 501. Guidance on novel and significant expenditures for purposes of notification under the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949. Sec. 502. Improvements to security of Central Intelligence Agency installations. Subtitle B—Elements of Department of Defense Sec. 511.
Requirement to avoid duplication in purchase of commercially available information for defense intelligence components. Sec. 512. Oversight and deconfliction of vendor support to clandestine activities. Sec. 513. Disestablishment of advisory boards for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office. Sec. 514. Expansion of commercial imagery and data procurement. Subtitle C—Other elements Sec. 521. Notice of counterintelligence assessments and investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of candidates for or holders of Federal office.
Sec. 522. Requirement for Department of Energy Employees to report travel to countries of risk. Title VI—Open-source intelligence matters Sec. 601. Definitions. Sec. 602. Efficient use of open-source intelligence. Sec. 603. Oversight of acquisition of commercially available information. Sec. 604. Budget matters relating to open-source intelligence activities. Sec. 605. Budget materials for open-source information, publicly available information, and commercially available information.
Sec. 606. Standardization of training on collection of publicly available information and commercially available information. Sec. 607. Requirement to purge incidentally collected publicly available information or commercially available information relating to United States persons. Sec. 608. Update to intelligence community directives relating to open-source intelligence. Sec. 609. Audits of expenditures for publicly available information and commercially available information.
Sec. 610. Quarterly briefings on procurement of commercially available information. Sec. 611. Study on engagement with other agencies with respect to open-source intelligence requirements. Title VII—Intelligence Community Workforce Matters Sec. 701. Unclassified appraisals of employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Sec. 702. Prohibition on requiring political or ideological activism within the intelligence community. Sec. 703. Merit-based personnel decisions. Sec. 704. Equal treatment in recruitment and training of intelligence community personnel.
Sec. 705. Treatment of certain Agency service as active-duty service for purposes of benefits administered by Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Title VIII—Matters relating to Foreign Countries Sec. 801. Net assessments of the People’s Republic of China. Sec. 802. National Intelligence Management Council mission manager for the People’s Republic of China. Sec. 803. National Intelligence Estimate of advancements in biotechnology by the People’s Republic of China. Sec. 804. Extension of intelligence community coordinator for Russian atrocities accountability.
Sec. 805. Study on collection and analysis by intelligence community of foreign atrocities. Sec. 806. Intelligence support for Ukraine. Title IX—Reports and Other Matters Sec. 901. Modifications to access to restricted data under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Sec. 902. Revisions to congressional notification of intelligence collection adjustments. Sec. 903. Annual submission of Intelligence Community Drug Control Program Budget proposal. Sec. 904. Repeal of annual report on financial intelligence on terrorist assets.
Sec. 905. Repeal of outdated or unnecessary reporting requirements. Sec. 906. Notification of material changes to policies or procedures governing terrorist watchlist and transnational organized crime watchlist. Sec. 907. Annual report on United States persons on the terrorist watch list. Sec. 908. Plan on use of proposed web of biological data. Except as otherwise expressly provided, when an amendment made by this Act amends an Act to add a section or larger organizational unit to that Act, repeals or transfers a section or larger organizational unit in that Act, or amends the designation or heading of a section or larger organizational unit in that Act, that amendment also shall have the effect of amending any table of contents of that Act to alter the table to conform to the changes made by the amendment.