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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 5167 (Reported in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United S... · Sec. 605

Sec. 605. Budget materials for open-source information, publicly available information, and commercially available information

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Section 506 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3096 ) is amended— in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following new paragraph: With respect to fiscal years 2027 through 2029 and any additional fiscal years the Director of National Intelligence considers appropriate, the acquisition or use for intelligence purposes of publicly available information (as defined in section 601 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026), commercially available information (as defined in such section), or any other open-source information. ; by redesignating subsection
(b)as subsection (c); by inserting after subsection
(a)the following new subsection: The budget justification materials required by paragraph
(5)of subsection
(a)shall include— a summary of the primary activities and investments that the amount requested is intended to support; a disaggregation of such amount requested by program, budget category, expenditure center or subproject, and any other appropriate classification, as determined by the Director of National Intelligence; a comparison of the amount requested for each program for the fiscal year that is the subject of such materials and the amount made available for such program during the preceding fiscal year; the number of full-time equivalent civilian and military personnel assigned to open-source intelligence duties by program and across the intelligence community; and such other information as the Director of National Intelligence considers appropriate. ; and in subsection (c), as redesignated by paragraph
(2)of this section, by striking Amounts set forth under subsection
(a)and inserting Information required under this section .
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