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§3334h Data Collection on Attrition in Intelligence Community

Title 50 › Chapter 45— MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AUTHORITIES › Subchapter II— PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES › § 3334h

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

By no later than 90 days after December 27, 2020, the Director of National Intelligence must create rules for how to gather information when people leave the intelligence workforce, including breakdowns by demographics, job specialty, and length of service, and the rules must also cover candidates who accepted conditional job offers but withdrew before starting, including why they withdrew. By no later than 120 days after December 27, 2020, each part of the intelligence community must begin gathering that information using the Director’s rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 50, §3334h

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(a)(1)Not later than 90 days after December 27, 2020, the Director of National Intelligence shall establish standards for collecting data relating to attrition in the intelligence community workforce across demographics, specialities, and length of service.
(2)The Director shall include, in the standards established under paragraph (1), standards for collecting data from candidates who accepted conditional offers of employment but chose to withdraw from the hiring process before entering into service, including data with respect to the reasons such candidates chose to withdraw.
(b)Not later than 120 days after December 27, 2020, each element of the intelligence community shall begin collecting data on workforce and candidate attrition in accordance with the standards established under subsection (a).

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Amendments

2024—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 118–159 struck out subsec. (c) which required annual reports to Congress regarding workforce and candidate attrition in the intelligence community.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions For definitions of “intelligence community” and “congressional intelligence committees”, referred to in text, see section 2 of div. W of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 3003 of this title.

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50 U.S.C. § 3334h

Title 50War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60