Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

This bill authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for U.S. intelligence and intelligence-related activities, the Intelligence Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and addresses various other matters.

Title I, Intelligence Activities: Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for intelligence activities, with specific amounts in a classified schedule. It authorizes $568,000,000 for the Intelligence Community Management Account and allows increases for employee compensation and benefits as authorized by law.

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 2027.

Title III, Matters Relating to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Redesignates the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence as Deputy Director of National Intelligence. Repeals the National Intelligence Management Council and various other positions, units, centers, councils, and offices. Transfers the National Intelligence University to the National Defense University. Limits domestic activities at the National Counterterrorism Center. Requires timely security direction to intelligence community whistleblowers within 7 calendar days. Requires notification to Congress of certain declassifications. Clarifies that the Director of National Intelligence has no police, subpoena, or law enforcement powers or internal security functions.

Title IV, Matters Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency: Extends the Central Intelligence Agency's authority regarding unmanned aircraft systems. Adds a special rule under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for members of the intelligence community. Modifies security personnel provisions to include the National Reconnaissance Office.

Title V, Matters Relating to Other Elements of the Intelligence Community: Authorizes the National Security Agency to correlate, evaluate, and disseminate certain intelligence. Prohibits funds for relocating the Office of Intelligence and Analysis to certain facilities. Provides for funds for foreign intelligence activities conducted with and by the National Reconnaissance Office. Modifies an annual report on FBI case data to replace 'country affiliation' with 'terrorist organization'. Establishes an Office of Counterintelligence. Modifies responsibilities of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Defines the role of the National Security Agency in signals intelligence collection and analysis.

Title VI, General Intelligence Community Matters: Requires Senate advice and consent for appointment of the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and other positions. Establishes procedures for disseminating nonpublicly available information concerning U.S. persons. Sets analytic standards for all-source intelligence products. Limits use of Intelligence Community Management Account funds for certain entities. Establishes the Ben Sasse Intelligence Community Technology Fellowship Program. Establishes an Intelligence Community Counterintelligence Office at the Department of Commerce. Makes countering hostile foreign cyber actors a national intelligence priority. Requires notification of criminal referrals regarding current or former intelligence community employees. Modifies definitions in the National Security Act of 1947 and intelligence sharing responsibilities. Prohibits intelligence community use of adversary unmanned ground vehicles. Establishes a China-Taiwan Strategic Warning Task Force. Limits use of Chinese products and services by the intelligence community. Limits intelligence community support for offensive cyber operations by nongovernmental entities. Addresses biological intelligence activities. Prohibits participation in prediction markets. Repeals certain report and briefing requirements. Requires biennial reviews of intelligence community personnel travel regulations. Prohibits sending and receiving objects using entities owned or controlled by persons or governments of certain countries. Enhances intelligence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. Addresses intelligence activities related to Ukraine. Requires notification for intelligence sharing with countries of significant concern. Enhances U.S.-Israel intelligence sharing.

Title VII, Artificial Intelligence Matters Relating to the Intelligence Community: Establishes an artificial intelligence exploitation guard and intelligence sharing. Requires a review of intelligence community use of artificial intelligence to support targeting. Improves artificial intelligence policies, standards, and guidance. Adds functions and requirements for the Artificial Intelligence Security Center. Requires reports on novel uses of artificial intelligence technology. Requires clear labeling of artificial intelligence outputs for targeting workflows. Requires research on use of artificial intelligence relating to inadvertent escalation. Requires research on interaction of adversarial artificial intelligence systems with intelligence community systems. Requires proliferation assessments regarding the export of artificial intelligence-related technologies. Requires a review of artificial intelligence security vulnerabilities under the Vulnerabilities Equities Process.