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§ 3243. Periodic reports on technology strategy of intelligence community
(a) Reports
(b) Elements
Each report submitted under subsection (a) shall include the following:
(1) An assessment of technologies critical to the national security of the United States, particularly those technologies with respect to which foreign countries that are adversarial to the United States have or are poised to match or surpass the technology leadership of the United States.
(2) A review of current technology policies of the intelligence community, including long-term goals.
(3) An identification of sectors and supply chains the Director determines to be of the greatest strategic importance to national security.
(4) An identification of opportunities to protect the leadership of the United States, and the allies and partners of the United States, in critical technologies, including through targeted export controls, investment screening, and counterintelligence activities.
(5) An identification of research and development areas the Director determines critical to the national security of the United States, including areas in which the private sector does not focus.
(6) Recommendations for growing talent in key critical and emerging technologies and enhancing the ability of the intelligence community to recruit and retain individuals with critical skills relating to such technologies.
(7) An identification of opportunities to improve the leadership of the United States in critical technologies, including opportunities to develop international partnerships to reinforce domestic policy actions, develop new markets, engage in collaborative research, and maintain an international environment that reflects the values of the United States and protects the interests of the United States.
(8) A technology annex to establish an approach for the identification, prioritization, development, and fielding of emerging technologies critical to the mission of the intelligence community.
(9) Such other information as the Director determines may be necessary to inform Congress on matters relating to the technology strategy of the intelligence community and related implications for the national security of the United States.
(c) Form of annex
(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title XI, § 1113, as added Pub. L. 117–103, div. X, title VIII, § 823(a), Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 1021.)