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| 4 | 4 | | DSESSION S. 4366 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To enhance intelligence community acquisitions, and for other purposes. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 7 | 7 | | MAY16, 2024 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. C |
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| 9 | 9 | | ORNYN(for himself, Mr. WARNER, Mr. KELLY, and Mr. LANKFORD) in- |
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| 10 | 10 | | troduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Se- |
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| 11 | 11 | | lect Committee on Intelligence |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To enhance intelligence community acquisitions, and for |
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| 14 | 14 | | other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Enabling New Agile 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Buying-power and Leveraging Enhancements in Intel-5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | ligence Community Acquisitions Act 2024’’ or the ‘‘EN-6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | ABLE IC Acquisitions Act of 2024’’. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | In this Act: 9 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (1) CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMIT -1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | TEES.—The term ‘‘congressional intelligence com-2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | mittees’’ has the meaning given such term in section 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | 3003). 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) I |
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| 33 | 33 | | NTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY .—The term 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | such term in such section. 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE SENATE ENCOURAGING INTEL-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | LIGENCE COMMUNITY TO INCREASE PRIVATE 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTOR CAPITAL PARTNERSHIPS AND PART-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | NERSHIP WITH OFFICE OF STRATEGIC CAP-12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ITAL OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO SE-13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | CURE ENDURING TECHNOLOGICAL ADVAN-14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | TAGES. 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | It is the sense of the Senate that— 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (1) acquisition leaders in the intelligence com-17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | munity should further explore the strategic use of 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | private capital partnerships to secure enduring tech-19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | nological advantages for the intelligence community, 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | including through the identification, development, 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | and transfer of promising technologies to full-scale 22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | programs capable of meeting intelligence community 23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | requirements; and 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (2) the intelligence community should under-1 |
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| 56 | 56 | | take regular consultation with Federal partners, 2 |
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| 57 | 57 | | such as the Office of Strategic Capital of the Office 3 |
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| 58 | 58 | | of the Secretary of Defense, on best practices and 4 |
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| 59 | 59 | | lessons learned from their experiences integrating 5 |
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| 60 | 60 | | these resources to accelerate attainment of national 6 |
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| 61 | 61 | | security objectives. 7 |
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| 62 | 62 | | SEC. 4. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY BRIDGE 8 |
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| 63 | 63 | | FUND. 9 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (a) D |
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| 65 | 65 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 10 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (1) N |
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| 67 | 67 | | ONPROFIT ORGANIZATION .—The term 11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘nonprofit organization’’ means an organization 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | which is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Inter-13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | nal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax 14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | under section 501(a) of such Code. 15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (2) W |
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| 73 | 73 | | ORK PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘work pro-16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | gram’’ means any agreement between In-Q-Tel and 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | a third-party company, where such third-party com-18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | pany furnishes or is furnishing a product or service 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | for use by any of In-Q-Tel’s government customers 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | to address that customer’s technology needs or re-21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | quirements. 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (b) E |
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| 81 | 81 | | STABLISHMENT OF FUND.—There is estab-23 |
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| 82 | 82 | | lished in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be 24 |
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| 83 | 83 | | known as the ‘‘Intelligence Community Technology Bridge 25 |
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| 87 | 87 | | Fund’’ (in this subsection referred to as the ‘‘Fund’’) to 1 |
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| 88 | 88 | | assist in the transitioning of products or services from the 2 |
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| 89 | 89 | | research and development phase to the contracting and 3 |
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| 90 | 90 | | production phase. 4 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (c) C |
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| 92 | 92 | | ONTENTS OFFUND.—The Fund shall consist of 5 |
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| 93 | 93 | | amounts appropriated to the Fund and amounts in the 6 |
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| 94 | 94 | | Fund shall remain available until expended. 7 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (d) A |
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| 96 | 96 | | VAILABILITY ANDUSE OFFUND.— 8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (1) I |
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| 98 | 98 | | N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (3), 9 |
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| 99 | 99 | | amounts in the Fund shall be available to the Direc-10 |
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| 100 | 100 | | tor of National Intelligence to provide assistance to 11 |
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| 101 | 101 | | a business or nonprofit organization that is 12 |
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| 102 | 102 | | transitioning a product or service. 13 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (2) T |
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| 104 | 104 | | YPES OF ASSISTANCE .—Assistance pro-14 |
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| 105 | 105 | | vided under paragraph (1) may be distributed as 15 |
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| 106 | 106 | | funds in the form of a grant, a payment for a prod-16 |
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| 107 | 107 | | uct or service, or a payment for equity. 17 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (3) R |
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| 109 | 109 | | EQUIREMENTS FOR FUNDS .—Assistance 18 |
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| 110 | 110 | | may only be provided under paragraph (1) to a busi-19 |
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| 111 | 111 | | ness or nonprofit organization that is transitioning 20 |
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| 112 | 112 | | a product or service if— 21 |
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| 113 | 113 | | (A) the business or nonprofit organiza-22 |
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| 114 | 114 | | tion— 23 |
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| 115 | 115 | | (i) has participated or is participating 24 |
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| 116 | 116 | | in a work program; or 25 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (ii) is engaged with an element of the 1 |
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| 121 | 121 | | intelligence community or Department of 2 |
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| 122 | 122 | | Defense for research and development; and 3 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (B) the Director of National Intelligence or 4 |
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| 124 | 124 | | the head of an element of the intelligence com-5 |
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| 125 | 125 | | munity attests that the product or service will 6 |
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| 126 | 126 | | be utilized by an element of the intelligence 7 |
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| 127 | 127 | | community for a mission need, such as because 8 |
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| 128 | 128 | | it would be valuable in addressing a needed ca-9 |
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| 129 | 129 | | pability, fill or complement a technology gap, or 10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | increase the supplier base or price-competitive-11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ness for the Federal Government. 12 |
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| 132 | 132 | | (4) P |
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| 133 | 133 | | RIORITY FOR SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS 13 |
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| 134 | 134 | | AND NONTRADITIONAL DEFENSE CONTRACTORS .—In 14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | providing assistance under paragraph (1), the Direc-15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | tor shall prioritize the provision of assistance to 16 |
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| 137 | 137 | | small business concerns (as defined under section 17 |
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| 138 | 138 | | 3(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(a))) 18 |
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| 139 | 139 | | and nontraditional defense contractors (as defined in 19 |
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| 140 | 140 | | section 3014 of title 10, United States Code). 20 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (e) A |
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| 142 | 142 | | DMINISTRATION OFFUND.— 21 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (1) I |
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| 144 | 144 | | N GENERAL.—The Fund shall be adminis-22 |
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| 145 | 145 | | tered by the Director of National Intelligence. 23 |
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| 146 | 146 | | (2) C |
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| 147 | 147 | | ONSULTATION.—In administering the 24 |
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| 148 | 148 | | Fund, the Director— 25 |
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| 152 | 152 | | (A) shall consult with the heads of the ele-1 |
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| 153 | 153 | | ments of the intelligence community; and 2 |
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| 154 | 154 | | (B) may consult with In-Q-Tel, the De-3 |
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| 155 | 155 | | fense Advanced Research Project Agency, the 4 |
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| 156 | 156 | | North Atlantic Treaty Organization Investment 5 |
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| 157 | 157 | | Fund, and the Defense Innovation Unit. 6 |
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| 158 | 158 | | (f) A |
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| 159 | 159 | | NNUALREPORTS.— 7 |
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| 160 | 160 | | (1) I |
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| 161 | 161 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than September 8 |
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| 162 | 162 | | 30, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Direc-9 |
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| 163 | 163 | | tor shall submit to the congressional intelligence 10 |
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| 164 | 164 | | committees a report on the Fund. 11 |
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| 165 | 165 | | (2) C |
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| 166 | 166 | | ONTENTS.—Each report submitted pursu-12 |
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| 167 | 167 | | ant to paragraph (1) shall include, for the period 13 |
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| 168 | 168 | | covered by the report, information about the fol-14 |
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| 169 | 169 | | lowing: 15 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (A) How much was expended or obligated 16 |
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| 171 | 171 | | using amounts from the Fund. 17 |
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| 172 | 172 | | (B) For what the amounts were expended 18 |
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| 173 | 173 | | or obligated. 19 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (C) The effects of such expenditures and 20 |
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| 175 | 175 | | obligations. 21 |
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| 176 | 176 | | (D) Summarize annual transition activities 22 |
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| 177 | 177 | | and outcomes of such activities for the intel-23 |
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| 178 | 178 | | ligence community. 24 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (3) FORM.—Each report submitted pursuant to 1 |
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| 183 | 183 | | paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified 2 |
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| 184 | 184 | | form, but may include a classified annex. 3 |
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| 185 | 185 | | (g) A |
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| 186 | 186 | | UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.— 4 |
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| 187 | 187 | | (1) I |
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| 188 | 188 | | N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 5 |
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| 189 | 189 | | there is authorized to be appropriated to the Fund 6 |
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| 190 | 190 | | $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2025 and for each fiscal 7 |
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| 191 | 191 | | year thereafter. 8 |
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| 192 | 192 | | (2) L |
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| 193 | 193 | | IMITATION.—The amount in the Fund 9 |
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| 194 | 194 | | shall not exceed $75,000,000 at any time. 10 |
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| 195 | 195 | | SEC. 5. ENHANCEMENT OF AUTHORITY FOR INTELLIGENCE 11 |
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| 196 | 196 | | COMMUNITY PUBLIC-PRIVATE TALENT EX-12 |
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| 197 | 197 | | CHANGES. 13 |
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| 198 | 198 | | (a) F |
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| 199 | 199 | | OCUSAREAS.—Subsection (a) of section 5306 14 |
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| 200 | 200 | | of the Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard 15 |
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| 201 | 201 | | Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 16 |
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| 202 | 202 | | 2019, and 2020 (50 U.S.C. 3334) is amended— 17 |
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| 203 | 203 | | (1) by striking ‘‘Not later than’’ and inserting 18 |
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| 204 | 204 | | the following: 19 |
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| 205 | 205 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 206 | 206 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than’’; and 20 |
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| 207 | 207 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 21 |
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| 208 | 208 | | ‘‘(2) F |
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| 209 | 209 | | OCUS AREAS.—The Director shall ensure 22 |
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| 210 | 210 | | that the policies, processes, and procedures devel-23 |
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| 211 | 211 | | oped pursuant to paragraph (1) include a focus on 24 |
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| 215 | 215 | | rotations described in such paragraph with private- 1 |
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| 216 | 216 | | sector organizations in the following fields: 2 |
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| 217 | 217 | | ‘‘(A) Finance. 3 |
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| 218 | 218 | | ‘‘(B) Acquisition. 4 |
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| 219 | 219 | | ‘‘(C) Biotechnology. 5 |
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| 220 | 220 | | ‘‘(D) Computing. 6 |
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| 221 | 221 | | ‘‘(E) Artificial intelligence. 7 |
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| 222 | 222 | | ‘‘(F) Business process innovation and en-8 |
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| 223 | 223 | | trepreneurship. 9 |
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| 224 | 224 | | ‘‘(G) Cybersecurity. 10 |
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| 225 | 225 | | ‘‘(H) Materials and manufacturing. 11 |
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| 226 | 226 | | ‘‘(I) Any other technology or research field 12 |
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| 227 | 227 | | the Director determines relevant to meet evolv-13 |
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| 228 | 228 | | ing national security threats in technology sec-14 |
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| 229 | 229 | | tors.’’. 15 |
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| 230 | 230 | | (b) D |
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| 231 | 231 | | URATION OF TEMPORARY DETAILS.—Sub-16 |
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| 232 | 232 | | section (e) of section 5306 of the Damon Paul Nelson and 17 |
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| 233 | 233 | | Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for 18 |
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| 234 | 234 | | Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020 (50 U.S.C. 3334) is 19 |
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| 235 | 235 | | amended— 20 |
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| 236 | 236 | | (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘3 years’’ and 21 |
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| 237 | 237 | | inserting ‘‘5 years’’; and 22 |
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| 238 | 238 | | (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘3 years’’ and 23 |
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| 239 | 239 | | inserting ‘‘5 years’’. 24 |
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| 243 | 243 | | (c) TREATMENT OF PRIVATE-SECTOREMPLOY-1 |
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| 244 | 244 | | EES.—Subsection (g) of such section is amended— 2 |
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| 245 | 245 | | (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 3 |
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| 246 | 246 | | inserting a semicolon; 4 |
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| 247 | 247 | | (2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at 5 |
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| 248 | 248 | | the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 6 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (3) by adding at the end the following: 7 |
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| 250 | 250 | | ‘‘(7) shall not be considered to have a conflict 8 |
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| 251 | 251 | | of interest with an element of the intelligence com-9 |
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| 252 | 252 | | munity solely because of being detailed to an ele-10 |
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| 253 | 253 | | ment of the intelligence community under this sec-11 |
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| 254 | 254 | | tion.’’. 12 |
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| 255 | 255 | | (d) H |
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| 256 | 256 | | IRINGAUTHORITY.—Such section is amended— 13 |
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| 257 | 257 | | (1) by redesignating subsection (j) as sub-14 |
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| 258 | 258 | | section (k); and 15 |
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| 259 | 259 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (i) the fol-16 |
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| 260 | 260 | | lowing: 17 |
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| 261 | 261 | | ‘‘(j) H |
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| 262 | 262 | | IRINGAUTHORITY.— 18 |
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| 263 | 263 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 264 | 264 | | N GENERAL.—The Director may hire, 19 |
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| 265 | 265 | | under section 213.3102(r) of title 5, Code of Federal 20 |
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| 266 | 266 | | Regulations, or successor regulations, an individual 21 |
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| 267 | 267 | | who is an employee of a private-sector organization 22 |
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| 268 | 268 | | who is detailed to an element of the intelligence com-23 |
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| 269 | 269 | | munity under this section. 24 |
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| 273 | 273 | | ‘‘(2) NO PERSONNEL BILLET REQUIRED .—Hir-1 |
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| 274 | 274 | | ing an individual under paragraph (1) shall not re-2 |
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| 275 | 275 | | quire a personnel billet.’’. 3 |
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| 276 | 276 | | (e) A |
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| 277 | 277 | | NNUALREPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after 4 |
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| 278 | 278 | | the date of the enactment of this Act and annually there-5 |
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| 279 | 279 | | after for 2 more years, the Director of National Intel-6 |
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| 280 | 280 | | ligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence com-7 |
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| 281 | 281 | | mittees an annual report on— 8 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (1) the implementation of the policies, proc-9 |
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| 283 | 283 | | esses, and procedures developed pursuant to sub-10 |
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| 284 | 284 | | section (a) of such section 5306 (50 U.S.C. 3334) 11 |
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| 285 | 285 | | and the administration of such section; 12 |
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| 286 | 286 | | (2) how the heads of the elements of the intel-13 |
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| 287 | 287 | | ligence community are using or plan to use the au-14 |
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| 288 | 288 | | thorities provided under such section; and 15 |
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| 289 | 289 | | (3) recommendations for legislative or adminis-16 |
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| 290 | 290 | | trative action to increase use of the authorities pro-17 |
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| 291 | 291 | | vided under such section. 18 |
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| 292 | 292 | | SEC. 6. ENHANCING INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ABILITY 19 |
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| 293 | 293 | | TO ACQUIRE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY THAT 20 |
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| 294 | 294 | | FULFILLS INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 21 |
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| 295 | 295 | | NEEDS. 22 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (a) D |
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| 297 | 297 | | EFINITION OFWORKPROGRAM.—The term 23 |
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| 298 | 298 | | ‘‘work program’’ means any agreement between In-Q-Tel 24 |
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| 303 | 303 | | pany furnishes or is furnishing a product or service for 1 |
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| 304 | 304 | | use by any of In-Q-Tel’s government customers to address 2 |
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| 305 | 305 | | that customer’s technology needs or requirements. 3 |
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| 306 | 306 | | (b) I |
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| 307 | 307 | | NGENERAL.—In addition to the exceptions list-4 |
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| 308 | 308 | | ed under section 3304(a) of title 41, United States Code, 5 |
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| 309 | 309 | | and section 3204(a) of title 10, United States Code, for 6 |
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| 310 | 310 | | the use of competitive procedures, the Director of National 7 |
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| 311 | 311 | | Intelligence or the head of an element of the intelligence 8 |
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| 312 | 312 | | community may use procedures other than competitive 9 |
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| 313 | 313 | | procedures to acquire a property, product, or service if— 10 |
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| 314 | 314 | | (1) the source of the property, product, or serv-11 |
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| 315 | 315 | | ice is a company that completed a work program in 12 |
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| 316 | 316 | | which the company furnished the product or service; 13 |
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| 317 | 317 | | and 14 |
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| 318 | 318 | | (2) the Director of National Intelligence or the 15 |
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| 319 | 319 | | head of an element of the intelligence community 16 |
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| 320 | 320 | | certifies that such property, product, or service has 17 |
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| 321 | 321 | | been shown to meet an identified need of the intel-18 |
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| 322 | 322 | | ligence community. 19 |
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| 323 | 323 | | (c) J |
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| 324 | 324 | | USTIFICATION FOR USE OFPROCEDURES 20 |
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| 326 | 326 | | THERTHANCOMPETITIVEPROCEDURES.— 21 |
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| 327 | 327 | | (1) I |
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| 328 | 328 | | N GENERAL.—Property, a product, a sup-22 |
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| 329 | 329 | | ply, or a service may not be acquired by the Director 23 |
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| 330 | 330 | | or the head of an element of the intelligence commu-24 |
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| 331 | 331 | | nity under subsection (b) using procedures other 25 |
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| 335 | 335 | | than competitive procedures unless the acquiring of-1 |
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| 336 | 336 | | ficer for the acquisition justifies the use of such pro-2 |
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| 337 | 337 | | cedures in writing. 3 |
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| 338 | 338 | | (2) C |
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| 339 | 339 | | ONTENTS.—A justification in writing de-4 |
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| 340 | 340 | | scribed in paragraph (1) for an acquisition using 5 |
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| 341 | 341 | | procedures other than competitive procedures shall 6 |
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| 342 | 342 | | include the following: 7 |
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| 343 | 343 | | (A) A description of the need of the ele-8 |
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| 344 | 344 | | ment of the intelligence community that the 9 |
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| 345 | 345 | | property, product, or service satisfies. 10 |
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| 346 | 346 | | (B) A certification that the anticipated 11 |
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| 347 | 347 | | costs will be fair and reasonable. 12 |
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| 348 | 348 | | (C) A description of the market survey 13 |
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| 349 | 349 | | conducted or a statement of the reasons a mar-14 |
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| 350 | 350 | | ket survey was not conducted. 15 |
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| 351 | 351 | | (D) Such other matters as the Director or 16 |
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| 352 | 352 | | the head, as the case may be, determines appro-17 |
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| 353 | 353 | | priate. 18 |
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