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[CITE: 50USC403-5]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 15--NATIONAL SECURITY
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
 
Sec. 403-5. Responsibilities of Secretary of Defense pertaining 
        to National Foreign Intelligence Program
        

(a) In general

    The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of 
Central Intelligence, shall--
        (1) ensure that the budgets of the elements of the intelligence 
    community within the Department of Defense are adequate to satisfy 
    the overall intelligence needs of the Department of Defense, 
    including the needs of the chairman \1\ of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 
    and the commanders of the unified and specified commands and, 
    wherever such elements are performing governmentwide functions, the 
    needs of other departments and agencies;
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        (2) ensure appropriate implementation of the policies and 
    resource decisions of the Director of Central Intelligence by 
    elements of the Department of Defense within the National Foreign 
    Intelligence Program;
        (3) ensure that the tactical intelligence activities of the 
    Department of Defense complement and are compatible with 
    intelligence activities under the National Foreign Intelligence 
    Program;
        (4) ensure that the elements of the intelligence community 
    within the Department of Defense are responsive and timely with 
    respect to satisfying the needs of operational military forces;
        (5) eliminate waste and unnecessary duplication among the 
    intelligence activities of the Department of Defense; and
        (6) ensure that intelligence activities of the Department of 
    Defense are conducted jointly where appropriate.

(b) Responsibility for performance of specific functions

    Consistent with sections 403-3 and 403-4 of this title, the 
Secretary of Defense shall ensure--
        (1) through the National Security Agency (except as otherwise 
    directed by the President or the National Security Council), the 
    continued operation of an effective unified organization for the 
    conduct of signals intelligence activities and shall ensure that the 
    product is disseminated in a timely manner to authorized recipients;
        (2) through the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (except as 
    otherwise directed by the President or the National Security 
    Council), with appropriate representation from the intelligence 
    community, the continued operation of an effective unified 
    organization within the Department of Defense--
            (A) for carrying out tasking of imagery collection;
            (B) for the coordination of imagery processing and 
        exploitation activities;
            (C) for ensuring the dissemination of imagery in a timely 
        manner to authorized recipients; and
            (D) notwithstanding any other provision of law, for--
                (i) prescribing technical architecture and standards 
            related to imagery intelligence and geospatial information 
            and ensuring compliance with such architecture and 
            standards; and
                (ii) developing and fielding systems of common concern 
            related to imagery intelligence and geospatial information;

        (3) through the National Reconnaissance Office (except as 
    otherwise directed by the President or the National Security 
    Council), the continued operation of an effective unified 
    organization for the research and development, acquisition, and 
    operation of overhead reconnaissance systems necessary to satisfy 
    the requirements of all elements of the intelligence community;
        (4) through the Defense Intelligence Agency (except as otherwise 
    directed by the President or the National Security Council), the 
    continued operation of an effective unified system within the 
    Department of Defense for the production of timely, objective 
    military and military-related intelligence, based upon all sources 
    available to the intelligence community, and shall ensure the 
    appropriate dissemination of such intelligence to authorized 
    recipients;
        (5) through the Defense Intelligence Agency (except as otherwise 
    directed by the President or the National Security Council), 
    effective management of Department of Defense human intelligence 
    activities, including defense attaches; and
        (6) that the military departments maintain sufficient 
    capabilities to collect and produce intelligence to meet--
            (A) the requirements of the Director of Central 
        Intelligence;
            (B) the requirements of the Secretary of Defense or the 
        Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
            (C) the requirements of the unified and specified combatant 
        commands and of joint operations; and
            (D) the specialized requirements of the military departments 
        for intelligence necessary to support tactical commanders, 
        military planners, the research and development process, the 
        acquisition of military equipment, and training and doctrine.

(c) Use of elements of Department of Defense

    The Secretary of Defense, in carrying out the functions described in 
this section, may use such elements of the Department of Defense as may 
be appropriate for the execution of those functions, in addition to, or 
in lieu of, the elements identified in this section.

(d) Annual evaluation of Director of Central Intelligence

    The Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 
shall submit each year to the Committee on Foreign Intelligence of the 
National Security Council and the appropriate congressional committees 
(as defined in section 404d(c) of this title) an evaluation of the 
performance and the responsiveness of the National Security Agency, the 
National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Imagery and Mapping 
Agency in meeting their national missions.

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, Sec. 105, as added Pub. L. 102-496, 
title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3194; amended Pub. L. 
103-359, title V, Sec. 501(a)(2), Oct. 14, 1994, 108 Stat. 3428; Pub. L. 
104-201, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1114(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2684; 
Pub. L. 104-293, title VIII, Sec. 808, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3481.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 808(1), inserted ``, in 
consultation with the Director of Central Intelligence,'' after 
``Secretary of Defense'' in introductory provisions.
    Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 104-201 amended par. (2) generally. Prior to 
amendment, par. (2) read as follows: ``through the Central Imagery 
Office (except as otherwise directed by the President or the National 
Security Council), with appropriate representation from the intelligence 
community, the continued operation of an effective unified organization 
within the Department of Defense for carrying out tasking of imagery 
collection, for the coordination of imagery processing and exploitation 
activities, and for ensuring the dissemination of imagery in a timely 
manner to authorized recipients;''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-293, Sec. 808(2), added subsec. (d).
    1994--Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 103-359 substituted ``the Central 
Imagery Office'' for ``a central imagery authority''.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-201 effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 
1124 of Pub. L. 104-201, set out as a note under section 193 of Title 
10, Armed Forces.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 411 of this title.
