Enhancing intelligence community technology adoption metrics

(a) Metric Development and Implementation Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the National Security Agency, the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency shall each develop and implement a process (which may be different from the processes of the other elements) that makes use of a single set of metrics to assess, on an agency-wide, aggregate basis, the success of the agency’s efforts regarding the adoption, integration, and operational impact of the most relevant emerging technologies within the respective agencies of those Directors. (b) Briefing Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency described in subsection (a) shall provide to the congressional intelligence committees and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives a briefing on the implementation of this section, including— (1) the metrics established under subsection (a); (2) the success of the element toward meeting such metrics; and (3) any recommendations of the head of such agency for legislative or regulatory reforms to improve technology adoption. (c) Definitions In this section, the term emerging technology has the meaning given such term in section 6701 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (division F of Public Law 117–263; 50 U.S.C. 3024 note).