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§3043a National Intelligence Strategy

Title 50 › CHAPTER 44 — NATIONAL SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER I — COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY › § 3043a

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Starting in 2017, and every 4 years after that, the Director of National Intelligence must create a national intelligence strategy that covers the next 4 years (or longer if needed). The strategy must match the most recent national security strategy and other federal plans. It must cover national and military intelligence and counterintelligence; list the major national security missions now and in the future; explain how people, technology, partnerships, and other capabilities will be used; assess current, new, and future threats including foreign intelligence services and insider threats; describe how the different intelligence agencies will work together to meet customer needs; name sources of strategic, institutional, programmatic, fiscal, and technological risk; and analyze factors that could affect performance over the next 10 years. The Director must send the finished strategy to the congressional intelligence committees within 45 days after it is completed.

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Title 50, §3043a

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(a)In general

Beginning in 2017, and once every 4 years thereafter, the Director of National Intelligence shall develop a comprehensive national intelligence strategy to meet national security objectives for the following 4-year period, or a longer period, if appropriate.

(b)Requirements

Each national intelligence strategy required by subsection (a) shall—

(1)delineate a national intelligence strategy consistent with—

(A)the most recent national security strategy report submitted pursuant to section 3043 of this title;

(B)the strategic plans of other relevant departments and agencies of the United States; and

(C)other relevant national-level plans;

(2)address matters related to national and military intelligence, including counterintelligence;

(3)identify the major national security missions that the intelligence community is currently pursuing and will pursue in the future to meet the anticipated security environment;

(4)describe how the intelligence community will utilize personnel, technology, partnerships, and other capabilities to pursue the major national security missions identified in paragraph (3);

(5)assess current, emerging, and future threats to the intelligence community, including threats from foreign intelligence and security services and insider threats;

(6)outline the organizational roles and missions of the elements of the intelligence community as part of an integrated enterprise to meet customer demands for intelligence products, services, and support;

(7)identify sources of strategic, institutional, programmatic, fiscal, and technological risk; and

(8)analyze factors that may affect the intelligence community’s performance in pursuing the major national security missions identified in paragraph (3) during the following 10-year period.

(c)Submission to Congress

The Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees a report on each national intelligence strategy required by subsection (a) not later than 45 days after the date of the completion of such strategy.

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50 U.S.C. § 3043a

Title 50, War and National Defense

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110