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50 U.S.C. § 3061 — Counterintelligence and national security protections for intelligence community grant funding

submitted 79 years ago by Pub. L. 117-263 to r/title-50-WAR-AND-NATIONAL-DEFENSE · 338 words · no verdicts yet

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An intelligence-community element may not award a grant unless the applicant discloses certain recent support from five named foreign governments. The Director of National Intelligence must review the certification and may authorize actions, including denial or revocation, to address unacceptable risks.

(a) Disclosure as a grant condition. The head of an intelligence-community element may not award a grant to a person or entity unless the applicant certifies that it disclosed material financial or in-kind support it knows or should have known came from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, or Cuba during the five years ending on the application date.

(b) Review before award. (1) The element head may not award the grant until receiving the certification and sending it to the Director of National Intelligence through the process in paragraph (2). (2)(A) The Director, coordinating with appropriate element heads, must establish a review process. (B) It must provide for immediate transmission of each certification, prompt review of the certification and disclosures, and authority for element heads to take necessary action, including denying or revoking a grant, to ensure the grant does not create an unacceptable risk of (I) United States intellectual-property, research-and-development, or innovation efforts being misappropriated, or (II) other counterintelligence threats.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a) Disclosure as condition for receipt of grant

The head of an element of the intelligence community may not award a grant to a person or entity unless the person or entity has certified to the head of the element that the person or entity has disclosed to the head of the element any material financial or material in-kind support that the person or entity knows, or should have known, derives from the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or the Republic of Cuba, during the 5-year period ending on the date of the person or entity’s application for the grant.

(b) Process for review of grant applicants prior to award
(1) In general

The head of an element of the intelligence community may not award a grant to a person or entity who submitted a certification under subsection (a) until such certification is received by the head of an element of the intelligence community and submitted to the Director of National Intelligence pursuant to the process set forth in paragraph (2).

(2) Process
(A) In general

The Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with such heads of elements of the intelligence community as the Director considers appropriate, shall establish a process to review the awarding of a grant to an applicant who submitted a certification under subsection (a).

(B) Elements

The process established under subparagraph (A) shall include the following:

(i)

The immediate transmission of a copy of each applicant’s certification made under subsection (a) to the Director of National Intelligence.

(ii)

The review of the certification and any accompanying disclosures submitted under subsection (a) as soon as practicable.

(iii)

Authorization for the heads of the elements of the intelligence community to take such actions as may be necessary, including denial or revocation of a grant, to ensure a grant does not pose an unacceptable risk of—

(I)

misappropriation of United States intellectual property, research and development, and innovation efforts; or

(II)

other counterintelligence threats.

Source credit: (July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, § 121, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. F, title LXIII, § 6302(a), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3501; amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. F, title LXVIII, § 6801(a)(2), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1652.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1947Enacted · Pub. L. 117-263 · 136 Stat. 3501
  • 2025Amended · Pub. L. 119-60 · 139 Stat. 1652

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