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 117 STAT. 2606

PUBLIC LAW 108–177—DEC. 13, 2003

(A) The number of contracts entered into during the period. (B) The cost of each such contract. (C) The length of each such contract. (D) The types of services to be provided under each such contract. (E) The availability, if any, of United States Government personnel to perform functions similar to the services to be provided under each such contract. (F) The efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fill available personnel vacancies, or request additional personnel positions, in areas relating to the intelligence or counterintelligence mission of the Bureau. (3) Each report under this subsection shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. (4) In this subsection— (A) for purposes of the submittal of the classified annex to any report under this subsection, the term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ means— (i) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and (ii) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and (B) for purposes of the submittal of the unclassified portion of any report under this subsection, the term ‘‘appropriate committees of Congress’’ means— (i) the committees specified in subparagraph (A); (ii) the Committees on Appropriations, Governmental Affairs, and the Judiciary of the Senate; and (iii) the Committees on Appropriations, Government Reform and Oversight, and the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. SEC. 312. BUDGET TREATMENT OF COSTS OF ACQUISITION OF MAJOR SYSTEMS BY THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. 50 USC 415a–1 note.

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(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: (1) Funds within the National Foreign Intelligence Program often must be shifted from program to program and from fiscal year to fiscal year to address funding shortfalls caused by significant increases in the costs of acquisition of major systems by the intelligence community. (2) While some increases in the costs of acquisition of major systems by the intelligence community are unavoidable, the magnitude of growth in the costs of acquisition of many major systems indicates a systemic bias within the intelligence community to underestimate the costs of such acquisition, particularly in the preliminary stages of development and production. (3) Decisions by Congress to fund the acquisition of major systems by the intelligence community rely significantly upon initial estimates of the affordability of acquiring such major systems and occur within a context in which funds can be allocated for a variety of alternative programs. Thus, substantial increases in costs of acquisition of major systems place significant burdens on the availability of funds for other programs and new proposals within the National Foreign Intelligence Program.

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