Todd Young (R-IN)

A bill to require the Director of National Intelligence to develop a strategy on intelligence coordination and sharing relating to critical and emerging technologies.

S. 3288 · Senate bill Armed Forces and National Security

A Republican bill with no cosponsors

Last activity — Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This bill requires the Director of National Intelligence to create a specific strategy. The strategy focuses on coordinating and sharing foreign intelligence regarding critical and emerging technologies. This coordination must happen across the intelligence community. The intelligence must also be shared appropriately with other federal departments and agencies handling regulation, research, science, public health, export controls, and financial tools. Finally, the Director must submit a copy of this completed strategy to the congressional intelligence committees.

Yes

  • Scored +4

    Does this better protect the country from computer attacks?

    The bill mandates a strategy for intelligence coordination regarding critical and emerging technologies which are central to modern cybersecurity.

  • Scored +2

    Does this put more money into scientific research?

    The bill promotes intelligence sharing with agencies responsible for innovation and research to better manage emerging technologies.

  • Scored +2

    Does this make what the government does easier for the public to see?

    The bill requires the intelligence strategy to be submitted to congressional intelligence committees for oversight.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.