Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995/Title III

TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 301. INCREASE IN EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS AUTHORIZED BY LAW.

Appropriations authorized by this Act for salary, pay, retirement, and other benefits for Federal employees may be increased by such additional or supplemental amounts as may be necessary for increases in such compensation or benefits authorized by law.

SEC. 302. RESTRICTION ON CONDUCT OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES.

The authorization of appropriations by this Act shall not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States.

SEC. 303. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CONTRACTING.

It is the sense of Congress that the Director of Central Intelligence should continue to direct that elements of the intelligence community, whenever compatible with the national security interests of the United States and consistent with the operational and security concerns related to the conduct of intelligence activities, and where fiscally sound, should award contracts in a manner that would maximize the procurement of products properly designated as having been made in the United States.

SEC. 304. REPEAL OF RESTRICTION ON INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION WITH SOUTH AFRICA.

Section 107 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 (Public Law 99-569) is repealed.

SEC. 305. REPORT REGARDING MANDATORY RETIREMENT FOR EXPIRATION OF TIME IN CLASS.

(a) REPORT REQUIRED—

Not later than December 1, 1994, the Director of Central Intelligence shall submit a report to the committees of Congress specified in subsection (d) on the advisability of providing for mandatory retirement for expiration of time in class in a manner comparable to that established by the applicable provisions of section 607 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4007) for all civilian employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Central Imagery Office, and the intelligence elements of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

(b) REQUIRED CONTENTS—

The report required by subsection (a) shall include—

(1) an assessment of the feasibility of instituting such a mandatory retirement policy and of alternative means to achieve the objectives of such a mandatory retirement policy;

(2) an assessment which the Secretary of Defense shall conduct of the impact of such a mandatory retirement policy for intelligence community civilian employees on all other Department of Defense civilian employees; and

(3) any appropriate legislative recommendations.

(c) COORDINATION—

The report required by subsection (a) shall be coordinated as appropriate with elements of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401(4)).

(d) COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS—

The committees of Congress referred to in subsection (a) are the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives, the Defense Subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.