SEC. 702. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT FOR OFFICE TO ADDRESS
UNIDENTIFIED AEROSPACE-UNDERSEA PHENOMENA.
(a) In General.--Section 1683 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (50 U.S.C. 3373) is
amended to read as follows:
``SEC. 1683. ESTABLISHMENT OF UNIDENTIFIED AEROSPACE-UNDERSEA
PHENOMENA JOINT PROGRAM OFFICE.
``(a) Establishment of Office.--
``(1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the date
of the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2023, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination
with the Director of National Intelligence, shall establish
an office within a component of the Office of the Secretary
of Defense, or within a joint organization of the Department
of Defense and the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, to carry out the duties of the Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena Task Force, as in effect on December 26,
2021, and such other duties as are required by this section,
including those pertaining to--
``(A) transmedium objects or devices and unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena;
``(B) space, atmospheric, and water domains; and
``(C) currently unknown technology and other domains.
``(2) Designation.--The office established under paragraph
(1) shall be known as the `Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea
Phenomena Joint Program Office' (in this section referred to
as the `Office').
``(b) Director and Deputy Director of the Office.--
``(1) Appointment of director.--The head of the Office
shall be the Director of the Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea
Phenomena Joint Program Office (in this section referred to
as the `Director of the Office'), who shall be appointed by
the Secretary of Defense.
``(2) Appointment of deputy director.--There shall be in
the Office a Deputy Director of the Unidentified Aerospace-
Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office (in this section
referred to as the `Deputy Director of the Office'), who
shall be appointed by the Director of National Intelligence.
``(3) Reporting.--(A) The Director of the Office shall
report to the Secretary of Defense.
``(B) The Deputy Director of the Office shall report--
``(i) to the Secretary of Defense and the Director of
National Intelligence on all administrative matters of the
Office; and
``(ii) to the Secretary of Defense on all operational
matters of the Office.
``(c) Duties.--The duties of the Office shall include the
following:
``(1) Developing procedures to synchronize and standardize
the collection, reporting, and analysis of incidents,
including adverse physiological effects, regarding
unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena across the
Department of Defense and the intelligence community, in
consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, and
submitting a report on such procedures to the congressional
defense committees, the congressional intelligence
committees, and congressional leadership.
``(2) Developing processes and procedures to ensure that
such incidents from each component of the Department and each
element of the intelligence community are reported and
incorporated in a centralized repository.
``(3) Establishing procedures to require the timely and
consistent reporting of such incidents.
``(4) Evaluating links between unidentified aerospace-
undersea phenomena and adversarial foreign governments, other
foreign governments, or nonstate actors.
``(5) Evaluating the threat that such incidents present to
the United States.
``(6) Coordinating with other departments and agencies of
the Federal Government, as appropriate, including the Federal
Aviation Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National
Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy.
``(7) Coordinating with allies and partners of the United
States, as appropriate, to better assess the nature and
extent of unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.
``(8) Preparing reports for Congress, in both classified
and unclassified form, including under subsection (j).
``(9) Ensuring that appropriate elements of the
intelligence community receive all reports received by the
Office regarding a temporary nonattributed object or an
object that is positively identified as man-made, including
by creating a procedure to ensure that the Office refers such
reports to an appropriate element of the intelligence
community for distribution among other relevant elements of
the intelligence community, in addition to the reports in the
repository described in paragraph (2).
``(d) Response to and Field Investigations of Unidentified
Aerospace-undersea Phenomena.--
``(1) Designation.--The Secretary, in coordination with the
Director of National Intelligence, shall designate one or
more line organizations within the Department of Defense and
the intelligence community that possess appropriate
expertise, authorities, accesses, data, systems, platforms,
and capabilities to rapidly respond to, and conduct field
investigations of, incidents involving unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena under the direction of the
Director of the Office.
``(2) Ability to respond.--The Secretary, in coordination
with the Director of National Intelligence, shall ensure that
each line organization designated under paragraph (1) has
adequate personnel with the requisite expertise, equipment,
transportation, and other resources necessary to respond
rapidly to incidents or patterns of observations involving
unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena of which the Office
becomes aware.
``(e) Scientific, Technological, and Operational Analyses
of Data on Unidentified Aerospace-undersea Phenomena.--
``(1) Designation.--The Secretary, in coordination with the
Director of National Intelligence, shall designate one or
more line organizations that will be primarily responsible
for scientific, technical, and operational analysis of data
gathered by field investigations conducted pursuant to
subsection (d) and data from other sources, including with
respect to the testing of materials, medical studies, and
development of theoretical models, to better understand and
explain unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.
``(2) Authority.--The Secretary and the Director of
National Intelligence shall each issue such directives as are
necessary to ensure that each line organization designated
under paragraph (1) has authority to draw on the special
expertise of persons outside the Federal Government with
appropriate security clearances.
``(f) Data; Intelligence Collection.--
``(1) Availability of data and reporting on unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena.--The Director of National
Intelligence and the Secretary shall each, in coordination
with one another, ensure that--
``(A) each element of the intelligence community with data
relating to unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena makes
such data available immediately to the Office; and
``(B) military and civilian personnel of the Department of
Defense or an element of the intelligence community, and
contractor personnel of the Department or such an element,
have access to procedures by which the personnel shall report
incidents or information, including adverse physiological
effects, involving or associated with unidentified aerospace-
undersea phenomena directly to the Office.
``(2) Intelligence collection and analysis plan.--The
Director of the Office, acting on behalf of the Secretary of
Defense and the Director of National Intelligence, shall
supervise the development and execution of an intelligence
collection and analysis plan to gain as much knowledge as
possible regarding the technical and operational
characteristics, origins, and intentions of unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena, including with respect to the
development, acquisition, deployment, and operation of
technical collection capabilities necessary to detect,
identify, and scientifically characterize unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena.
``(3) Use of resources and capabilities.--In developing the
plan under paragraph (2), the Director of the Office shall
consider and propose, as the Director of the Office
determines appropriate, the use of any resource, capability,
asset, or process of the Department and the intelligence
community.
``(4) Director of the national geospatial-intelligence
agency.--
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``(A) Leadership.--The Director of the National Geospatial-
Intelligence Agency shall lead the collection efforts of the
intelligence community with respect to unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena geospatial intelligence.
``(B) Briefings.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2023 and not less frequently than once every 90
days thereafter, the Director shall brief the congressional
defense committees, the congressional intelligence
committees, and congressional leadership on the activities of
the Director under this paragraph.
``(g) Science Plan.--The Director of the Office, on behalf
of the Secretary and the Director of National Intelligence,
shall supervise the development and execution of a science
plan to develop and test, as practicable, scientific theories
to--
``(1) account for characteristics and performance of
unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena that exceed the
known state of the art in science or technology, including in
the areas of propulsion, aerodynamic control, signatures,
structures, materials, sensors, countermeasures, weapons,
electronics, and power generation; and
``(2) provide the foundation for potential future
investments to replicate or otherwise better understand any
such advanced characteristics and performance.
``(h) Assignment of Priority.--The Director of National
Intelligence, in consultation with, and with the
recommendation of the Secretary, shall assign an appropriate
level of priority within the National Intelligence Priorities
Framework to the requirement to understand, characterize, and
respond to unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.
``(i) Core Group.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2023, the Director of the Office, the Secretary
of Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence shall
jointly establish a core group within the Office that shall
include, at a minimum, representatives with all relevant and
appropriate security clearances from the following:
``(1) The Central Intelligence Agency.
``(2) The National Security Agency.
``(3) The Department of Energy.
``(4) The National Reconnaissance Office.
``(5) The Air Force.
``(6) The Space Force.
``(7) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
``(8) The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
``(9) The Department of Homeland Security.
``(j) Annual Reports.--
``(1) Reports from director of national intelligence.--
``(A) Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2023, and annually thereafter for 4 years, the
Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the
Secretary, shall submit to the appropriate congressional
committees a report on unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena.
``(B) Elements.--Each report under subparagraph (A) shall
include, with respect to the year covered by the report, the
following information:
``(i) All reported unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena-related events that occurred during the one-year
period.
``(ii) All reported unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena-related events that occurred during a period other
than that one-year period but were not included in an earlier
report.
``(iii) An analysis of data and intelligence received
through each reported unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena-related event.
``(iv) An analysis of data relating to unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena collected through--
``(I) geospatial intelligence;
``(II) signals intelligence;
``(III) human intelligence; and
``(IV) measurement and signature intelligence.
``(v) The number of reported incidents of unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena over restricted airspace of the
United States during the one-year period.
``(vi) An analysis of such incidents identified under
clause (v).
``(vii) Identification of potential aerospace or other
threats posed by unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena to
the national security of the United States.
``(viii) An assessment of any activity regarding
unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena that can be
attributed to one or more adversarial foreign governments.
``(ix) Identification of any incidents or patterns
regarding unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena that
indicate a potential adversarial foreign government may have
achieved a breakthrough aerospace capability.
``(x) An update on the coordination by the United States
with allies and partners on efforts to track, understand, and
address unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.
``(xi) An update on any efforts underway on the ability to
capture or exploit discovered unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena.
``(xii) An assessment of any health related effects for
individuals that have encountered unidentified aerospace-
undersea phenomena.
``(xiii) The number of reported incidents, and descriptions
thereof, of unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena
associated with military nuclear assets, including strategic
nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered ships and submarines.
``(xiv) In consultation with the Administrator for Nuclear
Security, the number of reported incidents, and descriptions
thereof, of unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena
associated with facilities or assets associated with the
production, transportation, or storage of nuclear weapons or
components thereof.
``(xv) In consultation with the Chairman of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, the number of reported incidents, and
descriptions thereof, of unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena or drones of unknown origin associated with nuclear
power generating stations, nuclear fuel storage sites, or
other sites or facilities regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
``(xvi) The names of the line organizations that have been
designated to perform the specific functions under
subsections (d) and (e), and the specific functions for which
each such line organization has been assigned primary
responsibility.
``(C) Form.--Each report submitted under subparagraph (A)
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
``(2) Reports from elements of intelligence community.--Not
later than one year after the date of enactment of the
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, and
annually thereafter, each head of an element of the
intelligence community shall submit to the congressional
committees specified in subparagraphs (A), (B), (D), and (E)
of subsection (o)(1) and congressional leadership a report on
the activities of the element of the head undertaken in the
past year to support the Office, including a section prepared
by the Office that includes a detailed description of the
coordination between the Office and the element of the
intelligence community, any concerns with such coordination,
and any recommendations for improving such coordination.
``(k) Semiannual Briefings.--
``(1) Requirement.--Not later than December 31, 2022, and
not less frequently than semiannually thereafter until
December 31, 2026, the Director of the Office shall provide
to the congressional committees specified in subparagraphs
(A), (B), (D), and (E) of subsection (o)(1) classified
briefings on unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.
``(2) First briefing.--The first briefing provided under
paragraph (1) shall include all incidents involving
unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena that were reported
to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force or to the
Office established under subsection (a) after June 24, 2021,
regardless of the date of occurrence of the incident.
``(3) Subsequent briefings.--Each briefing provided
subsequent to the first briefing described in paragraph (2)
shall include, at a minimum, all events relating to
unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena that occurred
during the previous 180 days, and events relating to
unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena that were not
included in an earlier briefing.
``(4) Instances in which data was not shared.--For each
briefing period, the Director of the Office shall jointly
provide to the chairman or chair and the ranking member or
vice chairman of the congressional committees specified in
subparagraphs (A) and (D) of subsection (o)(1) an enumeration
of any instances in which data relating to unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena was not provided to the Office
because of classification restrictions on that data or for
any other reason.
``(l) Quarterly Briefings.--
``(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2023, and not less frequently than once every 90
days thereafter, the Director of the Office shall provide the
appropriate congressional committees and congressional
leadership briefings on unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena events.
``(2) Elements.--The briefings provided under paragraph (1)
shall include the following:
``(A) A continuously updated compendium of unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena events.
``(B) Details about each sighting that has occurred within
the past 90 days and the status of each sighting's
resolution.
``(C) Updates on the Office's collection activities and
posture, analysis, and research.
``(m) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out
the work of the Office, including with respect to--
``(1) general intelligence gathering and intelligence
analysis; and
``(2) strategic defense, space defense, defense of
controlled air space, defense of ground, air, or naval
assets, and related purposes.
``(n) Task Force Termination.--Not later than the date on
which the Secretary establishes the Office under subsection
(a), the Secretary shall terminate the Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena Task Force.
``(o) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) The term `appropriate congressional committees' means
the following:
``(A) The Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and
the House of Representatives.
``(B) The Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and
the House of Representatives.
``(C) The Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives.
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``(D) The Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the
House of Representatives.
``(E) The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security
of the House of Representatives.
``(2) The term `congressional defense committees' has the
meaning given such term in section 101(a) of title 10, United
States Code.
``(3) The term `congressional intelligence committees' has
the meaning given such term in section 3 of the National
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003).
``(4) The term `congressional leadership' means--
``(A) the majority leader of the Senate;
``(B) the minority leader of the Senate;
``(C) the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and
``(D) the minority leader of the House of Representatives.
``(5) The term `intelligence community' has the meaning
given such term in section 3 of the National Security Act of
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003).
``(6) The term `line organization' means, with respect to a
department or agency of the Federal Government, an
organization that executes programs and activities to
directly advance the core functions and missions of the
department or agency to which the organization is
subordinate, but, with respect to the Department of Defense,
does not include a component of the Office of the Secretary
of Defense.
``(7) The term `transmedium objects or devices' means
objects or devices that are--
``(A) observed to transition between space and the
atmosphere, or between the atmosphere and bodies of water;
and
``(B) not immediately identifiable.
``(8) The term `unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena'--
``(A) means--
``(i) airborne objects that are not immediately
identifiable;
``(ii) transmedium objects or devices; and
``(iii) submerged objects or devices that are not
immediately identifiable and that display behavior or
performance characteristics suggesting that the objects or
devices may be related to the objects or devices described in
subparagraph (A) or (B); and
``(B) does not include temporary nonattributed objects or
those that are positively identified as man-made.''.
(b) Delegation of Duties of Director of National
Intelligence.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence
shall select a full-time equivalent employee of the
intelligence community and delegate to such employee the
responsibilities of the Director under section 1683 of such
Act (50 U.S.C. 3373), as amended by subsection (a).
(c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section
2(b) of such Act is amended by striking the item relating to
section 1683 of division A and inserting the following new
item:
``Sec. 1683. Establishment of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena
Joint Program Office.''.
SEC. 703. UNIDENTIFIED AEROSPACE-UNDERSEA PHENOMENA REPORTING
PROCEDURES.
(a) Authorization for Reporting.--Notwithstanding the terms
of any nondisclosure written or oral agreement, order, or
other instrumentality or means, that could be interpreted as
a legal constraint on reporting by a witness of an
unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena, reporting in
accordance with the system established under subsection (b)
is hereby authorized and shall be deemed to comply with any
regulation or order issued under the authority of Executive
Order 13526 (50 U.S.C. 3161 note; relating to classified
national security information) or chapter 18 of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2271 et seq.).
(b) System for Reporting.--
(1) Establishment.--The head of the Office, on behalf of
the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National
Intelligence, shall establish a secure system for receiving
reports of--
(A) any event relating to unidentified aerospace-undersea
phenomena; and
(B) any Government or Government contractor activity or
program related to unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.
(2) Protection of systems, programs, and activity.--The
system established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall serve as a
mechanism to prevent unauthorized public reporting or
compromise of properly classified military and intelligence
systems, programs, and related activity, including all
categories and levels of special access and compartmented
access programs, current, historical, and future.
(3) Administration.--The system established pursuant to
paragraph (1) shall be administered by designated and widely
known, easily accessible, and appropriately cleared
Department of Defense and intelligence community employees or
contractors assigned to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Task Force or the Office.
(4) Sharing of information.--The system established under
paragraph (1) shall provide for the immediate sharing with
Office personnel and supporting analysts and scientists of
information previously prohibited from reporting under any
nondisclosure written or oral agreement, order, or other
instrumentality or means, except in cases where the cleared
Government personnel administering such system conclude that
the preponderance of information available regarding the
reporting indicates that the observed object and associated
events and activities likely relate to a special access
program or compartmented access program that, as of the date
of the reporting, has been explicitly and clearly reported to
the congressional defense committees and congressional
intelligence committees, and is documented as meeting those
criteria.
(5) Initial report and publication.--Not later than 180
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of
the Office, on behalf of the Secretary and the Director,
shall--
(A) submit to the congressional intelligence committees,
the congressional defense committees, and congressional
leadership a report detailing the system established under
paragraph (1); and
(B) make available to the public on a website of the
Department of Defense information about such system,
including clear public guidance for accessing and using such
system and providing feedback about the expected timeline to
process a report.
(6) Annual reports.--Subsection (j)(1) of section 1683 of
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
(50 U.S.C. 3373), as amended by section 703, is further
amended--
(A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and congressional
leadership'' after ``appropriate congressional committees'';
and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by adding at the end the following
new clause:
``(xvii) A summary of the reports received using the system
established under section 703(b)(1) of the Intelligence
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023.''.
(c) Records of Nondisclosure Agreements.--
(1) Identification of nondisclosure agreements.--The
Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence,
the Secretary of Homeland Security, the heads of such other
departments and agencies of the Federal Government that have
supported investigations of the types of events covered by
subparagraph (A) of subsection (b)(1) and activities and
programs described in subparagraph (B) of such subsection,
and contractors of the Federal Government supporting such
activities and programs shall conduct comprehensive searches
of all records relating to nondisclosure orders or agreements
or other obligations relating to the types of events
described in subsection (a) and provide copies of all
relevant documents to the Office.
(2) Submittal to congress.--The head of the Office shall--
(A) make the records compiled under paragraph (1)
accessible to the congressional intelligence committees, the
congressional defense committees, the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives, and congressional leadership; and
(B) not later than September 30, 2023, and at least once
each fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 2026, provide
to such committees and congressional leadership briefings and
reports on such records.
(d) Protection From Liability.--
(1) Protection from liability.--It shall not be a violation
of any law, and no cause of action shall lie or be maintained
in any court or other tribunal against any person, for
reporting any information through, and in compliance with,
the system established pursuant to subsection (b)(1).
(2) Prohibition on reprisals.--An employee of a Federal
agency and an employee of a contractor for the Federal
Government who has authority to take, direct others to take,
recommend, or approve any personnel action, shall not, with
respect to such authority, take or fail to take, or threaten
to take or fail to take, a personnel action, including the
revocation or suspension of security clearances, with respect
to any individual as a reprisal for any reporting as
described in paragraph (1).
(e) Review by Inspectors General.--Not later than one year
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector
General of the Department of Defense and the Inspector
General of the Intelligence Community shall each--
(1) conduct an assessment of the compliance with the
requirements of this section and the operation and efficacy
of the system established under subsection (b); and
(2) submit to the congressional intelligence committees,
the congressional defense committees, the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives, and congressional leadership a report on
their respective findings with respect to the assessments
they conducted under paragraph (1).
(f) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The term ``congressional defense committees'' has the
meaning given such term in section 101(a) of title 10, United
States Code.
(2) The term ``congressional leadership'' means--
(A) the majority leader of the Senate;
(B) the minority leader of the Senate;
(C) the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and
(D) the minority leader of the House of Representatives.
(3) The term ``Office'' means the office established under
section 1683(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal
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Year 2022 (50 U.S.C. 3373(a)), as amended by section 703.
(4) The term ``personnel action'' has the meaning given
such term in section 1104(a) of the National Security Act of
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3234(a)).
(5) The term ``unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena''
has the meaning given such term in section 1683(o) of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (50
U.S.C. 3373(o)), as amended by section 703.
SEC. 704. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
COMPILATION OF UNIDENTIFIED AEROSPACE-UNDERSEA
PHENOMENA RECORDS.
(a) Definition of Unidentified Aerospace-undersea
Phenomena.--In this section, the term ``unidentified
aerospace-undersea phenomena'' has the meaning given such
term in section 1683(o) of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (50 U.S.C. 3373(o)), as amended by
section 703.
(b) Compilation Required.--Not later than one year after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller
General of the United States shall--
(1) commence a review of the records and documents of the
intelligence community, oral history interviews, open source
analytic analysis, interviews of current and former
government officials, classified and unclassified national
archives (including those records any third party obtained
pursuant to section 552 of title 5, United States Code
(commonly known as the ``Freedom of Information Act'' or
``FOIA'')), and such other relevant historical sources as the
Comptroller General considers appropriate; and
(2) for the period beginning on January 1, 1947, and ending
on the date on which the Comptroller General completes
activities under this subsection, compile and itemize a
complete historical record of the intelligence community's
involvement with unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena,
including successful or unsuccessful efforts to identify and
track unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena, and any
intelligence community efforts to obfuscate, manipulate
public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide unclassified or
classified misinformation about unidentified aerospace-
undersea phenomena or related activities, based on the review
conducted under paragraph (1).
(c) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date on
which the Comptroller General completes the compilation and
itemization required by subsection (b)(2), the Comptroller
General shall submit to Congress a report summarizing the
historical record described in such subsection.
(2) Resources.--The report submitted under paragraph (1)
shall include citations to the resources relied upon and
instructions as to how the resources can be accessed.
(3) Form.--The report submitted under paragraph (1) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex as necessary.
(d) Cooperation of Intelligence Community.--The heads of
elements of the intelligence community whose participation
the Comptroller General deems necessary to carry out
subsections (b) and (c), including the Director of National
Intelligence, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
and Security, and the Director of the Unidentified Aerospace-
Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office, shall fully
cooperate with the Comptroller General and provide to the
Comptroller General such information as the Comptroller
General determines necessary to carry out such subsections.
(e) Access to Records of the National Archives and Records
Administration.--The Archivist of the United States shall
make available to the Comptroller General such information
maintained by the National Archives and Records
Administration, including classified information, as the
Comptroller General considers necessary to carry out
subsections (b) and (c).
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