Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025

This bill authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for U.S. intelligence and intelligence-related activities, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and includes various provisions on intelligence matters.

Sec. 2, Definitions: Defines terms used in the Act, including 'congressional intelligence committees' and 'intelligence community' by reference to the National Security Act of 1947.

Title I, Intelligence Activities: Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for federal intelligence activities, with specific amounts in a classified Schedule of Authorizations, and authorizes $650,000,000 for the Intelligence Community Management Account.

Title II, Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System: Authorizes $514,000,000 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for fiscal year 2025.

Title III, General Intelligence Matters: States that the authorization does not authorize otherwise unlawful intelligence activities; allows increases in employee compensation and benefits as authorized by law; amends the statute of limitations for espionage offenses to allow prosecution at any time; requires the Director of National Intelligence to establish secure communication between Congress and the intelligence community; and establishes a commission to examine national security risks from anomalous health incidents.

Title IV, Matters Relating to National Intelligence Enterprise: Includes provisions on congressional notifications of misconduct, improvements to urgent concerns submitted to Inspectors General, protections for individuals making authorized disclosures, clarification of Inspector General authority, codification of the National Intelligence Management Council, analyses of proposed foreign investments, responsibilities of the Director of National Intelligence, enabling intelligence community integration, protection of intelligence sources and methods, Department of Homeland Security intelligence support for state governors, Coast Guard intelligence activities, access of foreign nationals to Department of Energy national laboratories, counterintelligence training for Department of Energy personnel, FBI proactive cyber support, FBI confidential human source program requirements, congressional notice of FBI counterintelligence investigations into federal elected officials, an intelligence community counterintelligence office at the Department of Transportation, a Ukraine lessons learned working group, modifications to post-service employment restrictions, prohibitions on funds for the Intelligence Experts Group and certain activities of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and a limitation on funds for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence pending submission of information on staffing improvements. Also includes requirements for reports on foreign malign influence guidance, standard operating procedures, intelligence support for executive branch departments, recruitment of separating military members and in U.S. territories, extension of a report on strikes against terrorist targets, a study on updating intelligence sharing regulations, budget transparency for open-source intelligence, public-private sharing on manipulative practices in critical mineral projects, a briefing on policies for addressing terrorist threats, an assessment of the intelligence relationship between Egypt and Israel, an assessment of economic coercion by China, a report on the mission effect of civilian harm, a report on the economic outlook of China, and repeal of a requirement on assessments regarding the Northern Triangle and Mexico.

Title V, Matters Relating to Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture: Includes a sense of Congress on the need for increased effort in geomatics; establishes a Department of Defense Senior Intelligence Oversight Official; extends and modifies Department of Defense intelligence and counterintelligence expense authority; provides authority for Army counterintelligence agents; modifies notifications on defense sensitive support; revises the Secretary of Defense authority to engage in commercial activities as security for intelligence collection; requires guidance on certain Department of Defense contracts; and includes a sense of Congress on the Space Force acquisition workforce.

Title VI, Matters Relating to Central Intelligence Agency: Requires that the Special Victim Investigator not be a current CIA employee at the time of appointment; establishes a notification requirement for the Reserve for Contingencies; and requires a Government Accountability Office study and report on the CIA's modernization initiative.

Title VII, Matters Relating to Technology and Innovation: Includes provisions on sensitive compartmented information facility accreditation, a study of intelligence community research security, a report on biotechnology, and data on timeliness of security clearance determinations.