10 U.S.C. § 430e: Vendor support to clandestine activities

enable the Department of Defense to perform oversight, deconfliction, and risk assessments of past, ongoing, or planned clandestine activity involving support from commercial vendors, including all subcontractors; and identify potential conflicts between clandestine activities; identify the need for additional coordination with respect to clandestine activities; and conduct aggregate risk assessments of clandestine activities involving support from commercial vendors; and 1 1 So in original. Notwithstanding subsection (a), if the Secretary of Defense determines that information concerning a commercial vendor should not be used by the centralized technical capability required by subsection (a) due to operational, counterintelligence, or other national security concerns, the Secretary may exclude such information from use by such centralized technical capability. The number of commercial vendors with respect to which the Secretary made the determination under paragraph (1). A description of the types of activities supported by such commercial vendors. The rationale for excluding the information concerning such commercial vendors from such capability. deconflict the use of commercial vendors in support of clandestine activities of the Department of Defense; and assess operational risk and counterintelligence exposure attributable to the use of commercial vendors in support of clandestine activities of the Department of Defense. In this section, the term “clandestine activity” means any activity where it is intended that the role of the United States Government will not be apparent or acknowledged publicly. implement the requirements of section 430e of title 10 , United States Code, as added by subsection (a) of this section; and submit to the congressional defense committees [Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives], the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives a certification that such requirements have been implemented. submit to the committees described in paragraph (1)(B) a report containing the plan to implement the requirements of such section 430e; and provide to such committees a briefing with respect to such plan. Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the committees described in paragraph (1)(B) a briefing describing the progress of the Secretary towards implementing the requirements of such section 430e.”