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Redesignates the 'Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence' as the 'Deputy Director of National Intelligence' throughout the section; replaces references to (multiple) 'Deputy Directors of National Intelligence' with 'Assistant Directors of National Intelligence' and updates subsection headings and related text.
Strikes occurrences of the prior title and conforms the Office composition language to the redesignation of the Principal Deputy Director to Deputy Director.
Replaces the reference to the 'Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence' with the redesignated title consistent with the bill's changes.
Amends the appointment/recommendation provision to replace the reference to the 'Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence' with the redesignated title.
Revises delegation authority language by removing references to the Principal Deputy Director and conforming to the redesignation.
Strikes occurrences of the Principal Deputy Director title in the statute that governs classification determinations for certain nominated intelligence officers, conforming that role to the redesignated Deputy Director.
Amends reporting and appointment-related references in the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office provisions by striking occurrences of the Principal Deputy Director title to conform with the redesignation.
Conforming amendment replacing the phrase 'a Deputy' with 'an Assistant' in the specified subsection to reflect the establishment of Assistant Directors of National Intelligence.
Replaces the existing Section 119B (which currently authorizes establishment and governance of national intelligence centers) with a new Section 119B that authorizes the Director of National Intelligence to convene national intelligence task forces, sets rules on composition, duration, compensation, and congressional notification, and makes a clerical amendment to the table of contents.
Amends section 119 of the National Security Act of 1947 to redesignate the National Counterterrorism Center, modify primary missions and director duties, replace the limitation on domestic activities subsection, repeal subsection (j), and update references and the section heading and table of contents to reflect the new name.
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Rewrites the organization and some funding rules for the U.S. intelligence community. It eliminates or renames multiple offices and positions, orders the wind-down of the National Intelligence University, moves several centers into the FBI or CIA, tightens limits on what National Intelligence Program (NIP) funds can buy or support, and creates new rules for short‑term national intelligence task forces. The bill also bans use of NIP funds for diversity, equity, or inclusion practices across the intelligence community, bars NIP-funded analytic collaboration with organizations that receive foreign government funding except Five Eyes members, caps certain ODNI staff and property spending, and sets deadlines for transitions and required reform plans (ranging from immediate action to up to one year).
Repeals the statutory position of Intelligence Community Chief Data Officer by striking section 103K of Title I of the National Security Act of 1947.
Makes a conforming amendment by striking subsection (d) of section 103G of the National Security Act of 1947 (removing the related text referenced in law).
Removes the table-of-contents entry for section 103K from the National Security Act of 1947 (clerical amendment).
Directs the Director of National Intelligence to terminate and wind down the operations of the Intelligence Community Innovation Unit before the date specified in paragraph (3).
Repeals the statutory section establishing the Intelligence Community Innovation Unit by striking section 103L of Title I of the National Security Act of 1947, and removes its table-of-contents entry (clerical amendment).
Primary effects fall on U.S. intelligence agencies, their workforce, affiliated academic programs, and outside organizations that partner with intelligence agencies. Specifically:
Intelligence community agencies and staff: ODNI will lose certain offices and authorities, see staff-count limits, and undergo title/role changes; many personnel will be reassigned, transferred, or see their positions eliminated or reclassified. Transfer of centers will move staff and duties into FBI and CIA chains of command, changing oversight and management.
Education and training programs: The National Intelligence University will be terminated, affecting students, faculty, curricula, and research programs tied to the university; affected programs must be wound down or transitioned within the 180‑day deadline.
Research, policy, and advocacy organizations (including think tanks): The bill restricts NIP-funded collaboration with entities that receive foreign government funding (except Five Eyes cases). That will reduce or alter partnerships, funding flows, and joint analytic projects with ODNI and other intelligence components.
Contracting, property, and procurement: ODNI must identify and divest facilities deemed unnecessary by OMB, and the DNI must propose procurement reforms; agency budgets and contracts may be adjusted, and sales/divestments could create near-term administrative workload and market transactions.
Counterintelligence and counterproliferation posture: Moving the NCSC into FBI and the counterproliferation/biosecurity center into CIA centralizes certain functions in law enforcement and the CIA, which may change operational priorities, information-sharing patterns, and interagency authorities.
Policy and training: Immediate prohibition of DEI practices paid by NIP funds will require agencies to revise or rescind training, guidance, and personnel policies; this may create administrative and compliance burdens and trigger internal reviews.
Oversight and transition costs: The law imposes numerous deadlines (30–180 days, one year) and required reports/plans to Congress, creating short- to medium-term workload for agency legal, HR, property, finance, and operational teams. Some statutory repeals and transfers will require updating legal authorities and regulations.
Potential downstream effects include disruptions to collaborative research, reallocation of counterintelligence responsibilities to the FBI, capacity and morale impacts among staff whose roles are eliminated or relocated, and possible legal or operational challenges during transition. The bill does not appropriate new funds; many changes create implementation costs borne within affected agencies’ existing budgets.
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Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Introduced June 27, 2025 by Thomas Bryant Cotton · Last progress June 27, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Introduced in Senate