Using operational electronic intelligence assets to engage high-value targets

(a) Requirement The Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and the Director of the National Security Agency to approve, direct, and enable the direct and immediate dissemination of all operational electronic intelligence data collected on high-value and potentially hostile military systems in the United States Indo-Pacific Command and European Command areas of responsibility to military command and control nodes and engagement systems and platforms for the purpose of establishing targeting quality tracks of such systems and platforms as an essential component of constructing, fielding, and exercising multi-sensor, cross-domain, long-range kill chains under the operational concept and strategy for combined, joint all-domain command and control. (b) Deadline for directive and demonstration Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall— (1) issue a directive applicable to all components of the Department of Defense to enable the Under Secretary and the Director of the National Security Agency to carry out the direction of the Secretary under subsection (a); and (2) conduct a demonstration of at least one kill chain of a high-value target set using the data generated by national operational electronic intelligence collection systems that are currently operationally deployed and under the delegated tasking authority of the Director of the National Security Agency as the national functional manager for signals intelligence. (c) Consultation and reporting The Director of the National Security Agency, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, and the Director for Operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall— (1) consult with the congressional defense committees prior to the development of the directive and the demonstration required by subsection (b); and (2) provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the substance of the directive and the results and lessons learned of the demonstration. (d) Definitions In this section: (1) The term direct dissemination means direct downlinking or communicating of the minimum collected data needed to support target identification and engagement to systems and entities directly responsible for engaging military targets, including the Family of Integrated Targeting Cells developed by the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, without impacting timeliness and the achievable scale of target engagements. (2) The term kill chain means the highly automated, long-range, rapid, and large-scale process of detecting, identifying, locating, tracking, and engaging high-value adversary targets using assets and resources spanning multiple ground, air, sea, space, and cyber operational domains. (3) The term operational electronic intelligence (OPELINT) means the detection, location, identification, and tracking of adversary military emitters of radio frequency electronic signals to support military operations, specifically including the peacetime construction and exercising and wartime execution of rapid-response targeting and engagement operations reflected in kill chains against moving and moveable objects enabled by the direct and immediate dissemination of data regarding such detection, location, identification, and tracking to engagement systems and platforms. (4) The term targeting-quality track means a location and tracking product that is accurate, sustained, and timely enough to support striking a target with a long-range weapons system.