Title 50 — War and National DefenseRelease 119-73

§3043b Annual reports on worldwide threats

Title 50 › Chapter CHAPTER 44— - NATIONAL SECURITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY › § 3043b

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of National Intelligence must work with the heads of the intelligence community to send a yearly report, starting by the first Monday in February 2021, that assesses worldwide threats to U.S. national security. Appropriate congressional committees are the congressional intelligence committees and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. The report must be unclassified but can include a classified annex to protect intelligence sources and methods. If those committees ask, the Director (and any other intelligence leaders the committees choose with the Director) must testify about the report in public. Information too sensitive for a public hearing can be discussed in a closed hearing right after the public one.

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Title 50, §3043b

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(a)In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(1)the congressional intelligence committees; and

(2)the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

(b)Not later than the first Monday in February 2021, and each year thereafter, the Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the heads of the elements of the intelligence community, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report containing an assessment of the intelligence community with respect to worldwide threats to the national security of the United States.

(c)Each report under subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex only for the protection of intelligence sources and methods relating to the matters contained in the report.

(d)(1)Upon request by the appropriate congressional committees, the Director (and any other head of an element of the intelligence community determined appropriate by the committees in consultation with the Director) shall testify before such committees in an open setting regarding a report under subsection (b).

(2)Any information that may not be disclosed during an open hearing under paragraph (1) in order to protect intelligence sources and methods may instead be discussed in a closed hearing that immediately follows such open hearing.

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Citation

50 U.S.C. § 3043b

Title 50 — War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73