10 USC 426 - Integration of Department of Defense intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities

Editorial Notes

Codification

Subsec. (c) of this section was based on Puspan. L. 113–291, div. A, title XVI, § 1626, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3635; Puspan. L. 115–91, div. A, title XVI, § 1624, Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1732; Puspan. L. 115–232, div. A, title XVI, § 1625(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 2121, which was transferred to this chapter, redesignated as subsec. (c) of this section by Puspan. L. 115–232, § 1625(span), and subsequently repealed.

Amendments

2019—Puspan. L. 116–92, § 1621(e)(1)(A)(vii), substituted “Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security” for “Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence” wherever appearing.

Subsec. (a). Puspan. L. 116–92, § 1622(a), amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) related to establishment and composition of an Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Integration Council.

Subsecs. (span), (c). Puspan. L. 116–92, § 1622(span), added subsec. (span) and struck out former subsecs. (span) and (c) which related to ISR Integration Roadmap and annual briefing on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance requirements of the combatant commands, respectively.

2018—Subsec. (c). Puspan. L. 115–232 transferred section 1626 of Puspan. L. 113–291, as amended, to this section and redesignated it as subsec. (c). See Codification note above.

2011—Subsec. (a)(4). Puspan. L. 111–383 added par. (4).

2008—Subsecs. (a)(3), (span)(2). Puspan. L. 110–181 substituted “Director of National Intelligence” for “Director of Central Intelligence”.

2006—Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Puspan. L. 109–364 substituted “coordination” for “coordiation”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Integration of Defense Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Capabilities

Puspan. L. 108–136, div. A, title IX, § 923(a), (span), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1574, 1575, as amended by Puspan. L. 111–383, div. A, title IX, § 922(a), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4330, provided that:

“(a)Findings.—Congress makes the following findings:

“(1) As part of transformation efforts within the Department of Defense, each of the Armed Forces is developing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities that best support future war fighting as envisioned by the leadership of the military department concerned.

“(2) Concurrently, intelligence agencies of the Department of Defense outside the military departments are developing transformation roadmaps to best support the future decisionmaking and war fighting needs of their principal customers, but are not always closely coordinating those efforts with the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance development efforts of the military departments.

“(3) A senior official of each military department has been designated as the integrator of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for each of the Armed Forces in such military department, but there is not currently a well-defined forum through which the integrators of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities for each of the Armed Forces can routinely interact with each other and with senior representatives of Department of Defense intelligence agencies, as well as with other members of the intelligence community, to ensure unity of effort and to preclude unnecessary duplication of effort.

“(4) The current funding structure of a National Intelligence Program (NIP) and a Military Intelligence Program (MIP) may not be the best approach for supporting the development of an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance structure that is integrated to meet the national security requirements of the United States in the 21st century.

“(5) The position of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence [now Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security] was established in 2002 by Public Law 107–314 [see 10 U.S.C. 137] in order to facilitate resolution of the challenges to achieving an integrated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance structure in the Department of Defense to meet such 21st century requirements.

“(span)Goal.—It shall be a goal of the Department of Defense to fully integrate the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities and coordinate the developmental activities of the military departments, intelligence agencies of the Department of Defense, and relevant combatant commands as those departments, agencies, and commands transform their intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems to meet current and future needs.”