Short title; table of contents

(a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026. (b) Table of contents 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. Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by law. Sec. 104. Limitation on transfer and reprogramming of funds. TITLE II—Central Intelligence Agency retirement and disability system Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations. TITLE III—Intelligence community matters Sec. 301. Unauthorized access to intelligence community property. Sec. 302. Protection of Central Intelligence Agency facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft. Sec. 303. Modification of acquisition authorities. Sec. 304. Strategies for enhancing jointness during modernization of Common Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination systems. Sec. 305. Annual survey of analytic objectivity among officers and employees of elements of the intelligence community. Sec. 306. Annual training requirement and report regarding analytic standards. Sec. 307. Estimate of cost to ensure compliance with Intelligence Community Directive 705. Sec. 308. Amendments regarding Presidential appointments for intelligence community positions. Sec. 309. Strengthening of Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of the Treasury. Sec. 310. Counterintelligence support for Department of the Treasury networks and systems. Sec. 311. Report on Director's Initiatives Group personnel matters. Sec. 312. Prohibition on availability of funds for certain activities of the Overt Human Intelligence and Field Intelligence Programs of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security. Sec. 313. Higher Education Act of 1965 special rule. Sec. 314. Annual Central Intelligence Agency workplace climate assessment. Sec. 315. Report on sensitive commercially available information. Sec. 316. Report on secure mobile communications systems available to employees and of the intelligence community. Sec. 317. Plan for implementing an integrated system spanning the intelligence community for accreditation of sensitive compartmented information facilities. Sec. 318. Counterintelligence threats to United States space interests. Sec. 319. Chaplain Corps and Chief of Chaplains of the Central Intelligence Agency. Sec. 320. Review by Inspectors General of reform efforts for special access programs and controlled access programs. Sec. 321. Prohibition on contractors collecting or selling location data of individuals at intelligence community locations. Sec. 322. Technical amendment to procurement authorities of Central Intelligence Agency. Sec. 323. Consolidation of reporting requirements applicable to All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Sec. 324. Establishing processes and procedures for protecting Federal Reserve information. Sec. 325. Plan to establish commercial geospatial intelligence data and services program management office. Sec. 326. Inspector General review of adequacy of policies and procedures governing use of commercial messaging applications by intelligence community. Sec. 327. Authority for National Security Agency to produce and disseminate intelligence products. Sec. 328. Conditions on procurement of telecommunications equipment by intelligence community. Sec. 329. Reforms to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security. Sec. 330. Procedures regarding dissemination of nonpublicly available information concerning United States persons. Sec. 331. Prohibiting discrimination in the intelligence community. Sec. 332. Annual report on Federal Bureau of Investigation case data. TITLE IV—Intelligence community efficiency and effectiveness Sec. 401. Short title. Sec. 402. Modification of responsibilities and authorities of the Director of National Intelligence. Sec. 403. Reforms relating to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Sec. 404. Appointment of Deputy Director of National Intelligence and Assistant Directors of National Intelligence. Sec. 405. Reform of the National Intelligence Council and National Intelligence Officers. Sec. 406. Transfer of National Counterintelligence and Security Center to Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sec. 407. Redesignation and reform of National Counterterrorism Center. Sec. 408. Transfer of National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center. Sec. 409. National Intelligence Task Forces. Sec. 410. Repeal of various positions, units, centers, councils, and offices. Sec. 411. Limitation on use of Intelligence Community Management Account funds for certain entities. Sec. 412. Transfer of National Intelligence University. TITLE V—Matters concerning foreign countries Subtitle A—Foreign countries generally Sec. 501. Declassification of information relating to actions by foreign governments to assist persons evading justice. Sec. 502. Enhanced intelligence sharing relating to foreign adversary biotechnological threats. Sec. 503. Threat assessment regarding unmanned aircraft systems at or near the international borders of the United States. Sec. 504. Assessment of the potential effect of expanded partnerships among western hemisphere countries. Subtitle B—People's Republic of China Sec. 511. Countering Chinese Communist Party efforts that threaten Europe. Sec. 512. Prohibition on intelligence community contracting with Chinese military companies engaged in biotechnology research, development, or manufacturing. Sec. 513. Report on the wealth of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Sec. 514. Assessment and report on investments by the People's Republic of China in the agriculture sector of Brazil. Sec. 515. Identification of entities that provide support to the People's Liberation Army. Sec. 516. Establishing a China Economics and Intelligence cell to publish China Economic Power Report. Sec. 517. Modification of annual reports on influence operations and campaigns in the United States by the Chinese Communist Party. Subtitle C—The Russian Federation Sec. 521. Assessment of Russian destabilization efforts. Sec. 522. Enforcing sanctions with respect to the shadow fleet of the Russian Federation. Subtitle D—Other foreign countries Sec. 531. Plan to enhance counternarcotics collaboration, coordination, and cooperation with the Government of Mexico. Sec. 532. Enhancing intelligence support to counter foreign adversary influence in Sudan. Sec. 533. Ukraine lessons learned working group. Sec. 534. Improvements to requirement for monitoring of Iranian enrichment of uranium-235. Sec. 535. Duty to warn United States persons threatened by Iranian lethal plotting. TITLE VI—Emerging technologies Sec. 601. Intelligence Community Technology Bridge Fund. Sec. 602. Enhancing biotechnology talent within the intelligence community. Sec. 603. Enhanced intelligence community support to secure United States genomic data. Sec. 604. Ensuring intelligence community procurement of domestic United States production of synthetic DNA and RNA. Sec. 605. Deployment of advanced nuclear technologies. Sec. 606. Addressing intelligence gaps relating to outbound investment screening for biotechnology. Sec. 607. Additional functions and requirements of Artificial Intelligence Security Center. Sec. 608. Artificial intelligence development and usage by intelligence community. Sec. 609. High-impact artificial intelligence systems. Sec. 610. Application of artificial intelligence policies of the intelligence community to publicly available models used for intelligence purposes. Sec. 611. Revision of interim guidance regarding acquisition and use of foundation models. Sec. 612. Strategy on intelligence coordination and sharing relating to critical and emerging technologies. TITLE VII—Classification reform and security clearances Sec. 701. Notification of certain declassifications. Sec. 702. Elimination of cap on compensatory damages for retaliatory revocation of security clearances and access determinations. Sec. 703. Establishing process parity for adverse security clearance and access determinations. Sec. 704. Reforms relating to inactive security clearances. Sec. 705. Protection of classified information relating to budget functions. Sec. 706. Report on executive branch approval of access to classified intelligence information outside of established review processes. TITLE VIII—Whistleblowers Sec. 801. Clarification of definition of employee for purposes of reporting complaints or information to Inspector General. Sec. 802. Protections for whistleblower disclosures to office of legislative or congressional affairs. Sec. 803. Prohibition against disclosure of whistleblower identity as act of reprisal. Sec. 804. Improvements regarding urgent concerns submitted to Inspectors General of the intelligence community. Sec. 805. Whistleblower protections relating to psychiatric testing or examination. TITLE IX—Anomalous health incidents Sec. 901. Standard guidelines for intelligence community to report and document anomalous health incidents. Sec. 902. Review and declassification of intelligence relating to anomalous health incidents. TITLE X—Other matters Sec. 1001. Declassification of intelligence and additional transparency measures relating to the COVID–19 pandemic. Sec. 1002. Counterintelligence briefings for members of the Armed Forces. Sec. 1003. Denial of visas to foreign nationals known to be intelligence officers for accreditation to multilateral diplomatic missions. Sec. 1004. Policy toward certain agents of foreign governments. Sec. 1005. Tour limits of accredited diplomatic and consular personnel of certain nations in the United States. Sec. 1006. Strict enforcement of travel protocols and procedures of accredited diplomatic and consular personnel of certain nations in the United States. Sec. 1007. Offenses involving espionage, procurement of citizenship or naturalization unlawfully, or harboring or concealing persons. Sec. 1008. Identification of reallocable frequencies. Sec. 1009. NEPA national security waivers for intelligence community facilities. Sec. 1010. Repeal of certain report requirements. Sec. 1011. Review by Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States of transactions in real estate near intelligence community facilities. Sec. 1012. Requiring penetration testing as part of the testing and certification of voting systems. Sec. 1013. Independent security testing and coordinated cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure program for election systems. Sec. 1014. Church Committee historical intelligence records processing. Sec. 1015. Foreign material acquisitions. Sec. 1016. Prohibition on admittance to national laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities. Sec. 1017. Extension of Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015.