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Today, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (OH-10) and Ranking Member Jim Himes (CT-04) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (IAA), which was attached to this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The IAA authorizes funding for the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and strengthens congressional oversight of the IC’s methods of collecting and analyzing information.

“This year's Intelligence Authorization Act is critical to ensuring our Intelligence Community remains agile, accountable, and prepared to confront evolving national security threats facing the United States. By prioritizing issues like countering the strategic challenges posed by China, enhancing the recruitment into the Intelligence Community of personnel leaving military service with a Top Secret clearance, and strengthening oversight of workforce protections, this bipartisan legislation bolsters both our capabilities and our commitment to those who serve. This legislation continues the House Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan mission of providing the Intelligence Community with the resources and capabilities necessary to counter foreign adversaries and non-state actors,” said Chairman Turner and Ranking Member Himes.

The legislation advances significant bipartisan House Intelligence Committee priorities, including:

Enhancing Intelligence Community Recruitment of Military Personnel with a Top Secret Clearance

Requires the Intelligence Community Chief Human Capital Officer to develop a human resources strategy for enhancing the recruitment into the Intelligence Community of individuals transitioning out of military service with top-secret security clearances.

Strengthening CIA Requirements to Address Sexual Assault and Harassment in the Workforce

Builds on the Committee’s previous work to address sexual assault and sexual harassment at the CIA by ensuring the Special Victim Investigator is not appointed from within the CIA.

Supporting the Families of the Intelligence Community and Department of State Personnel

Extends to spouses of an employee of the Intelligence Community or Department of State the same options for federal employment as currently enjoyed by spouses of employees of the Department of Defense.

Prioritizing the People's Republic of China and Counternarcotics Mission in the Intelligence Community

Expresses the view of Congress that the Director of National Intelligence should appoint a National Intelligence Manager dedicated to the People's Republic of China, as well as a National Intelligence Manager dedicated to the counternarcotics mission. 

Establishing a Ukraine Lessons Learned Working Group

Requires the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to jointly establish a working group to identify lessons the Intelligence Community has learned from the Ukraine conflict and to share such lessons with the Department of Defense.

Supporting Technology Development and Innovation

Helps the Intelligence Community to adopt emerging technologies that advance national security and to protect against the use of such technologies by U.S. adversaries and competitors in ways that harm American interests.

Demanding Transparency in Intelligence Community Personnel Accountability 

Requires the Director of National Intelligence to submit annual reports to Congress regarding civilian employees in the Intelligence Community who were placed on administrative leave pending possible adverse personnel actions.

Pressing the Intelligence Community on Polygraph Timeliness

Requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to share with Congress data on timeliness for processing polygraph determinations for individual Intelligence Community elements.

Click here to read the full text of the legislation.