4. Department of Defense · Minor
Have the USD(I&S) issue dissenting top-line views of intelligence assessments
Printed page 105 4. Department of Defense
“Establish unbiased intelligence reporting from DIE/IC senior leaders. As the leader of the DIE, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security should provide a top-line, dissenting, or clarifying view of DIE and IC assessments as needed.”
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No mechanism for the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to publish a top-line, dissenting or clarifying view of Defense Intelligence Enterprise or Intelligence Community assessments. Searched: the Federal Register full-text API for "Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security" since 2025-01-20 (four hits: two Privacy Act notices, a DFARS proposed rule and a protocol gifts notice); the FY2026 NDAA for that office and for dissenting or alternative analysis provisions; the FY2026 defense appropriations act; the bills Corpus. Nothing found.
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Research log
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Research notes
Nothing establishes a top-line, dissenting or clarifying view from the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. The FY2026 NDAA mentions the office three times, in an artificial-intelligence steering committee (sec. 1535), a counterintelligence briefing policy (sec. 6511) and a security-clearance review (sec. 1626) — none of them about assessments.
This item sits in the page 105–107 defense intelligence cluster (#182, #183, #184, #185, #186, #187, #188). One search covered the whole cluster: titles XV and LXV of the FY2026 NDAA, the full text of the Federal Register, and bills in Congress.
- Action
- create
- Object
- Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security top-line/dissenting views
- ID
- 182