PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Six senior officials must work together at least once a year to check how the United States builds and uses the global nuclear detection system. Those officials are the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Director of National Intelligence. Each agency must look at how it helps develop and run the system and whether its parts match current threat and intelligence information. Agencies that operate detection equipment must review how well the gear is deployed, find any technical or performance problems, and say if they have the staff and resources to meet their duties. Partners in the National Technical Forensics Center must report on their nuclear forensics work and investments, include progress under the national five-year forensics plan required by section 1036 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, attach the current plan to the joint review, and list any new or changed international agreements that helped their work. By March 31 each year, those six officials must send a joint report on these reviews to the President and to the named Senate and House committees—covering Appropriations; Armed Services; the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Homeland Security (Senate and House); and the House Committee on Science and Technology. The report should be unclassified when possible but may include a classified appendix. The term “global nuclear detection architecture” means the system created under section 592.

Title 6, §596a

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(a)Annual review

(1)In general

The Secretary, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Director of National Intelligence shall jointly ensure interagency coordination on the development and implementation of the global nuclear detection architecture by ensuring that, not less frequently than once each year—

(A)each relevant agency, office, or entity—

(i)assesses its involvement, support, and participation in the development, revision, and implementation of the global nuclear detection architecture; and

(ii)examines and evaluates components of the global nuclear detection architecture (including associated strategies and acquisition plans) relating to the operations of that agency, office, or entity, to determine whether such components incorporate and address current threat assessments, scenarios, or intelligence analyses developed by the Director of National Intelligence or other agencies regarding threats relating to nuclear or radiological weapons of mass destruction;

(B)each agency, office, or entity deploying or operating any nuclear or radiological detection technology under the global nuclear detection architecture—

(i)evaluates the deployment and operation of nuclear or radiological detection technologies under the global nuclear detection architecture by that agency, office, or entity;

(ii)identifies performance deficiencies and operational or technical deficiencies in nuclear or radiological detection technologies deployed under the global nuclear detection architecture; and

(iii)assesses the capacity of that agency, office, or entity to implement the responsibilities of that agency, office, or entity under the global nuclear detection architecture; and

(C)the Assistant Secretary and each of the relevant departments that are partners in the National Technical Forensics Center—

(i)include, as part of the assessments, evaluations, and reviews required under this paragraph, each office’s or department’s activities and investments in support of nuclear forensics and attribution activities and specific goals and objectives accomplished during the previous year pursuant to the national strategic five-year plan for improving the nuclear forensic and attribution capabilities of the United States required under section 1036 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010;

(ii)attaches, as an appendix to the Joint Interagency Annual Review, the most current version of such strategy and plan; and

(iii)includes a description of new or amended bilateral and multilateral agreements and efforts in support of nuclear forensics and attribution activities accomplished during the previous year.

(2)Technology

Not less frequently than once each year, the Secretary shall examine and evaluate the development, assessment, and acquisition of radiation detection technologies deployed or implemented in support of the domestic portion of the global nuclear detection architecture.

(b)Annual report on joint interagency review

(1)In general

Not later than March 31 of each year, the Secretary, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall jointly submit a report regarding the implementation of this section and the results of the reviews required under subsection (a) to—

(A)the President;

(B)the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and

(C)the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives.

(2)Form

The annual report submitted under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form to the maximum extent practicable, but may include a classified annex.

(c)Definition

In this section, the term “global nuclear detection architecture” means the global nuclear detection architecture developed under section 592 of this title.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 1036 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, referred to in subsec. (a)(1)(C)(i), is section 1036 of Pub. L. 111–84, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2190, which is not classified to the Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a)(1)(C). Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(9)(A), substituted “Assistant Secretary” for “Director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office” in introductory provisions. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(9)(B), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 592 of this title. 2010—Subsec. (a)(1)(C). Pub. L. 111–140 added subpar. (C).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Science and Technology of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Jan. 5, 2011.

§596a Joint Annual Interagency Review of Global Nuclear Detection Architecture