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Title 50 — War and National DefenseRelease 119-73not60

§3032 Chief Information Officer

Title 50 › Chapter 44— NATIONAL SECURITY › Subchapter I— COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY › § 3032

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Intelligence Community inside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Director picks the CIO, and the CIO reports straight to the Director. The CIO must run the community’s IT systems and overall IT design (called enterprise architecture). The CIO must approve and lead all IT purchases tied to that enterprise design and handle IT buying for the whole intelligence community. The CIO must also make sure IT and research-and-development spending follows the enterprise design and the Director’s plan. While serving as the Intelligence Community CIO, a person cannot also be the CIO of any other U.S. department, agency, or part of one. Also, a person who is the Intelligence Community CIO or a CIO of any intelligence element cannot at the same time serve as the Intelligence Community Chief Data Officer under section 3034b and as a chief data officer of any other intelligence element.

Full Legal Text

Title 50, §3032

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(a)To assist the Director of National Intelligence in carrying out the responsibilities of the Director under this chapter and other applicable provisions of law, there shall be within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence a Chief Information Officer of the Intelligence Community who shall be appointed by the Director. The Chief Information Officer shall report directly to the Director of National Intelligence.
(b)Subject to the direction of the Director of National Intelligence, the Chief Information Officer of the Intelligence Community shall—
(1)manage activities relating to the information technology infrastructure and enterprise architecture requirements of the intelligence community;
(2)have procurement approval authority over all information technology items related to the enterprise architectures of all intelligence community components;
(3)direct and manage all information technology-related procurement for the intelligence community; and
(4)ensure that all expenditures for information technology and research and development activities are consistent with the intelligence community enterprise architecture and the strategy of the Director for such architecture.
(c)An individual serving in the position of Chief Information Officer of the Intelligence Community may not, while so serving, serve as the chief information officer of any other department or agency, or component thereof, of the United States Government.
(d)An individual serving in the position of Chief Information Officer of the Intelligence Community or chief information officer of any other element of the intelligence community shall not concurrently serve as the Intelligence Community Chief Data Officer under section 3034b of this title and as the chief data officer of any other element of the intelligence community.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 61 Stat. 495, known as the National Security Act of 1947, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 403–3g of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2023—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 118–31 added subsec. (d). 2019—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–92, § 6405, inserted at end “The Chief Information Officer shall report directly to the Director of National Intelligence.” Pub. L. 116–92, § 6304, substituted “by the Director” for “by the President”. 2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–259, § 404(1), inserted “of the Intelligence Community” after “Chief Information Officer” and substituted “President.” for “President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 111–259, § 404(2)–(4), redesignated subsecs. (c) and (d) as (b) and (c), respectively, inserted “of the Intelligence Community” after “Chief Information Officer” in two places, and struck out former subsec. (b). Text of former subsec. (b) read as follows: “The Chief Information Officer shall serve as the chief information officer of the intelligence community.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 108–487, title III, § 303(b), Dec. 23, 2004, 118 Stat. 3944, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [enacting this section] shall take effect on the

Effective Date

of the National Security Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 [see section 1097 of Pub. L. 108–458, set out in an

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of 2004 Amendment; Transfer, Termination, and Transition Provisions note under section 3001 of this title], as provided in section 801 of this Act [set out in an

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of 2004

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note under section 2656f of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse].”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

50 U.S.C. § 3032

Title 50 — War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60