§3333 Joint facilities certification

Summary

Before any part of the intelligence community buys, leases, or builds a new facility of 20,000 square feet or more, the head of that part must send the Director of National Intelligence two written papers. One must say, to the best of the head’s knowledge, that all nearby possible joint facilities were considered and none meet their operational needs. The other must explain why they will not join any of the joint facilities they looked at. Congress also found that the Director of National Intelligence is trying to use shared facilities to save money by combining administrative and support work, and that shared facilities can help different intelligence parts work together and share information.