# 119-s-2202: Intelligence Community Efficiency and Effectiveness Act of 2025 119-s-2202, Intelligence Community Efficiency and Effectiveness Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] (R-AR); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2202 - As of: 2025-12-21 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-s-2202 - Congress: 119 - Title: Intelligence Community Efficiency and Effectiveness Act of 2025 - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2025-06-27 - Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] (R-AR) - Cosponsors: 4 - Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2025-12-21 ## Summary **Reorganize and narrow the Director of National Intelligence's authority across the intelligence community.** The bill would realign leadership, centers, staffing, funding, and oversight rules to shift power away from centralized DNI control and impose new limits on funding and facilities. - Intelligence staff and leadership: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence would be capped at 650 full‑time equivalent staff and detailees. The bill redesigns senior posts, creates two Assistant Directors, and would require an acquisition reform plan within 180 days. - Counterintelligence and counterterrorism: The National Counterintelligence and Security Center would transfer into the FBI's counterintelligence division, with that move effective in 180 days. The National Counterterrorism Center would be renamed to include counternarcotics, lose Senate confirmation for its director, and be limited in retaining domestic terrorism intelligence to what is necessary for international terrorism, with name changes effective in 30 days. - Funding, research, property, and training: National Intelligence Program funds could not support analytic collaboration with research or advocacy entities that receive foreign government support unless from a Five Eyes partner, and NIP funds would be barred from diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. The bill also limits ODNI facility spending and would require sale or divestment of unneeded property as determined by OMB, with that rule taking effect one year. ## Cosponsors (4) - Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID), 2025-06-27T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] (R-SD), 2025-06-27T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] (R-NC), 2025-06-27T00:00:00.000Z - Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] (R-OK), 2025-06-27T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - DNI must submit acquisition reform plan: benefit, medium. If enacted, the DNI would have to deliver to Congress, within 180 days, a plan to reform how each intelligence element buys goods and services. The plan must speed up acquisitions, prefer commercial solutions, and list major planned or pending purchases. This could open more opportunities for comme… - National Intelligence University must close: cost, low. If enacted, the DNI would have to wind down and terminate the National Intelligence University within 180 days. Students, faculty, and staff would go through a wind-down process and the university's statutory subtitle would be repealed. - Ban on DEI practices in intelligence: cost, low. If enacted, National Intelligence Program money could not be used for diversity, equity, or inclusion practices as defined in the bill. The DNI would have to review and rescind IC regulations, trainings, and materials that promote those DEI practices starting on the date of enactment. - Intelligence funds barred for some think tanks: cost, low. If enacted, money for the National Intelligence Program could not be used to fund analytic collaboration with research or advocacy organizations that have received or expect to receive support from a foreign government, except for Five Eyes partners. The rule covers entities that call themselves th… - ODNI facilities must support mission: cost, low. If enacted, ODNI would be required to occupy only facilities needed for its core mission. One year after enactment, intelligence funds generally could not be used for ODNI facilities that OMB finds unnecessary, and those facilities must be sold or divested at not less than OMB-determined fair marke… - Smaller ODNI leadership and staff: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would remove several listed positions from ODNI's leadership roster and cap ODNI staff at 650 full‑time equivalents and detailees. Service on a national intelligence task force would not count toward that 650 limit. These changes would take effect upon enactment. - Counterterrorism center renamed and limited: mixed, low. If enacted, the National Counterterrorism Center would be renamed to include counternarcotics. The Center Director's appointment would no longer require Senate confirmation. The Center would be limited in receiving or keeping domestic terrorism intelligence to only what is necessary to support inte… - NCSC moved into FBI counterintelligence: mixed, low. If enacted, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center would be transferred into the FBI Counterintelligence Division within 180 days. The statute that previously established the NCSC would be repealed, and references to the NCSC director in law would point to the FBI counterintelligence… - Shift DNI oversight and NIC roles: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would change DNI oversight language to require the DNI to direct independent assessments and allow delegated reviews by heads of IC elements. The National Intelligence Council would shift from producing intelligence to coordinating its production. The duties of National Intelli… ## Related bills - 119-s-3752: SAVE America Act - 119-s-5025: Lindsey O. 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