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[119 STAT. 3411]
PUBLIC LAW 109-000—MMMM. DD, 2005
[119 STAT. 3411]

PUBLIC LAW 109–163—JAN. 6, 2006

119 STAT. 3411

SEC. 922. CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION FACILITIES.

(a) AUTHORITY TO USE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION FUNDS TO CONSTRUCT FACILITIES.—The Secretary of Defense may, using amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 201(4) for research, development, test, and evaluation, Defensewide and available for chemical weapons demilitarization activities under the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program, carry out construction projects, or portions of construction projects, for facilities necessary to support chemical demilitarization operations at each of the following: (1) Pueblo Army Depot, Colorado. (2) Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky. (b) SCOPE OF AUTHORITY.—The authority in subsection (a) to carry out a construction project for facilities includes authority to carry out planning and design and the acquisition of land for the construction or improvement of such facilities. (c) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF FUNDS.—The amount of funds that may be utilized under the authority in subsection (a) may not exceed $51,000,000. (d) DURATION OF AUTHORITY.—A construction project, or portion of a construction project, may not be commenced under the authority in subsection (a) after September 30, 2006. (e) NOTICE AND WAIT.—The Secretary may not carry out a construction project, or portion of a construction project, under the authority in subsection (a) until the end of the 21-day period beginning on the date on which the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees notice of the Secretary’s intent to carry out such project and confirms his intent to seek funding for these projects beginning in fiscal year 2007 through the military construction appropriations accounts.

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Subtitle D—Intelligence-Related Matters SEC. 931. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STRATEGY FOR OPEN-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE.

50 USC 403–5 note.

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: (1) Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence that is produced from publicly available information and is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience for the purpose of addressing a specific intelligence requirement. (2) With the Information Revolution, the amount, significance, and accessibility of open-source information has expanded significantly, but the intelligence community has not expanded its exploitation efforts and systems to produce opensource intelligence. (3) The production of open-source intelligence is a valuable intelligence discipline that must be integrated into intelligence tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination to ensure that United States policymakers are fully and completely informed. (4) The dissemination and use of validated open-source intelligence inherently enables information sharing since opensource intelligence is produced without the use of sensitive sources and methods. Open-source intelligence products can

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