10 U.S.C. § 426 — Integration of Department of Defense intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities

(a) ISR Integration Council. (1) The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security must create an Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Integration Council. The Council exists to: help the Secretary of Defense carry out duties given to the Secretary under section 105(a) of the National Security Act of 1947; help the Under Secretary integrate intelligence and counterintelligence work across the military departments^*, Defense Department intelligence agencies, and relevant combatant commands, and coordinate how they develop new capabilities; and generally help make that integration and coordination happen.
(2) The Council's members are: the Under Secretary, who chairs it; the directors of the Defense Department's intelligence agencies; the top intelligence officers of the armed forces^* and the regional and functional combatant commands; the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Director for Intelligence; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Director for Operations.
(3) The Under Secretary must invite the Director of National Intelligence, or someone representing that Director, to take part in the Council's work.
(4) The Under Secretary may also invite other people to attend, whenever the Under Secretary thinks that is appropriate.

(b) Annual briefings on the intelligence needs of the combatant commands. (1) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff must brief the congressional defense committees^* and the congressional intelligence committees each year on: (A) each relevant combatant command's intelligence and counterintelligence needs, broken down by the specific type of capability needed; (B) how well each command's validated needs were actually met the year before, by capability type — called the "fulfillment rate^*"; (C) a risk analysis of the critical gaps that would result if those needs go unmet; (D) a plan to close those gaps, covering space-based, air, ground, sea, and cyber intelligence capabilities; and (E) detailed numbers for the prior year — how many of each commander's requests were validated and how much capacity was actually delivered; how much of each capability type the Joint Chiefs asked each military department to provide, and how much each department actually provided; and a qualitative assessment of how well intelligence work lines up with the analysis programs of each military service's combat support agencies and intelligence centers, both within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise and within the wider intelligence community.
(2) The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security must separately brief the same committees on short-, medium-, and long-term strategies for meeting the combatant commands' validated needs, again covering space-based, air, ground, sea, and cyber capabilities.
(3) Both briefings must be given at the same time the President submits the federal budget each year, for fiscal years 2021 through 2025.
(4) This subsection defines four terms: "congressional intelligence committees" means what section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 says it means; the "Defense Intelligence Enterprise" means the organizations, infrastructure, and policies of the intelligence, counterintelligence, and security parts of the Defense Department, the Joint Staff, the combatant commands, the military departments, and other Defense Department units doing intelligence-related work; "fulfillment rate" means the percentage of a combatant command's intelligence needs that were actually met; and "intelligence community" means what section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 says it means.