Sec. 1625. ASSESSMENT AND LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS OF UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES
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## SEC. 1625 ASSESSMENT AND LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS OF UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES ###
(a)Assessment ####
(1)Requirement The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress and the Comptroller General of the United States an assessment of the intelligence activities and programs of United States Special Operations Command and special operations forces. ####
(2)Inclusions The assessment under paragraph
(1)shall include each of the following elements: #####
(A)An overall strategy defining such intelligence activities and programs, including definitions of intelligence activities and programs carried out by special operations forces and how such activities and programs relate to conventional military intelligence and the capabilities of the Armed Forces. #####
(B)The oversight roles and responsibilities of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight with respect to the employment of special operations forces for intelligence activities and programs, including an analysis of any oversight limitations or gaps. #####
(C)A strategy and roadmap of United States Special Operations Command intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance programs and requirements, including enabling capabilities provided by the Armed Forces, for special operations across the future years defense program. #####
(D)A comprehensive description of Joint Staff-validated current and anticipated future requirements for the intelligence activities and programs of each geographic combatant commander that are likely to be fulfilled by special operations forces, including those that can only be addressed by special operations forces, programs, or capabilities. #####
(E)Validated current and expected future United States Special Operations Command force structure requirements necessary to meet near-, mid-, and long-term special operations intelligence activities and programs of the geographic combatant commanders. #####
(F)A comprehensive review and assessment of statutory authorities, and Department and interagency policies, including limitations, for special operations forces intelligence activities and programs. #####
(G)A cost estimate of special operations intelligence activities and programs, including an estimate of the costs of the period of the current future years defense program, including a description of all rules and assumptions used to develop the cost estimates. #####
(H)A copy of any memoranda of understanding or memoranda of agreement between the Department of Defense and other departments or agencies of the United States Government, or between components of the Department of Defense that are required to implement objectives of special operations intelligence activities and programs. #####
(I)Any other matters the Secretary considers appropriate. ####
(3)Form The assessment required under paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. ####
(4)Comptroller general review Not later than 60 days after the date on which the assessment required under paragraph
(1)is submitted, the Comptroller General shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a review of such assessment. Such review shall include an assessment of— #####
(A)the extent to which the assessment required under paragraph
(1)addressed the elements required under paragraph (2); #####
(B)the sufficiency of oversight of the intelligence activities and programs of special operations forces by the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight; #####
(C)the validity of the cost estimate of special operations intelligence activities and programs required by paragraph (2)(G); and #####
(D)any other matters the Comptroller General determines are relevant. ###
(b)Limitations ####
(1)In general Subject to paragraph (2), not more than 50 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2015 for procurement, Defense-wide, for intelligence systems, and for research, development, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide, for intelligence systems development may be obligated until the assessment required under subsection
(a)is submitted. ####
(2)Exception Paragraph
(1)shall not apply— #####
(A)with respect to funds authorized to be appropriated for Overseas Contingency Operations under title XV; or #####
(B)in any case where the Secretary of Defense determines the limitation in paragraph
(1)may impede a current operation. ###
(c)Definitions In this section: ####
(1)Appropriate committees of congress The term “appropriate committees of Congress” means the congressional defense committees, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. ####
(2)Future years defense program The term “future years defense program” means the future years defense program under section 221 of title 10, United States Code. ####
(3)Geographic combatant commander The term “geographic combatant commander” means a commander of a combatant command (as defined in section 161(c) of title 10, United States Code) with a geographic area of responsibility. **[**Section 1626 was amended and transferred to chapter 21 of title 10, USC and redesignated as subsection
(c)of section 426 of such title by section 1625 of division A of Public Law 115–232.**]**
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ASSESSMENT AND LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS OF UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES
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