§3314 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

Requires the NSA Director, working with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to send a report to the congressional intelligence committees and to the Senate and House Appropriations and Armed Services Committees. The first report was due within 120 days after May 5, 2017, and then once a year after that. Each report must say which national security systems or parts were decertified but still in use, the status of any extension requests for those systems, which systems are known to not follow the Committee on National Security Systems’ policies under National Security Directive 42 (signed July 5, 1990), and which organizations did not give the NSA Director enough access or information to check compliance.

Title 50, §3314

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

(1)the congressional intelligence committees;

(2)the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and

(3)the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.

(b)Not later than 120 days after May 5, 2017, and annually thereafter, the Director of the National Security Agency, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on national security systems.

(c)Each report submitted under subsection (b) shall include information related to—

(1)national security systems or components thereof that have been decertified and are still in operational use;

(2)extension requests and the current status of any national security systems still in use or components thereof that have been decertified and are still in use;

(3)national security systems known to not be in compliance with the policies, principles, standards, and guidelines issued by the Committee on National Security Systems established pursuant to National Security Directive 42, signed by the President on July 5, 1990; and

(4)organizations which have not provided access or information to the Director of the National Security Agency that is adequate to enable the Director to make a determination as to whether such organizations are in compliance with the policies, principles, standards, and guidelines issued by such Committee on National Security Systems.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions For definition of “congressional intelligence committees” as used in this section, see section 2 of div. N of Pub. L. 115–31, set out as a note under section 3003 of this title.

§3314 Report on national security systems

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Title 50, §3314

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