A bill to provide for the improvement of foreign stabilization and reconstruction capabilities of the United States Government.
Latest action · Jan 26, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S601-604)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 26, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should develop a planning process for stabilization and reconstruction activities in conflict-affected areas, which shall provide for contingency planning and integration task forces under the general guidance of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, joint interagency task forces, and a national center for contingency support; (2) the President should strengthen the Government's strategic communication abilities, including creation of a permanent organizational structure within the National Security Council (NSC); (3) a new approach is needed to access, coordinate, and implement Government intelligence and knowledge; (4) open source material should be better exploited; and (5) language proficiency should be enhanced.
Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to: (1) make stabilization and reconstruction capabilities one of the core competencies of their respective Departments; (2) increase cooperation between their Departments; and (3) allocate funding for strategic communication.
Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) direct commanders of the combatant commands to develop intelligence plans as part of their planning process; (2) develop a program to identify, locate, and track hostile asymmetric warfare operations; and (3) designate the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to serve as executive agent of a Department of Defense (DOD) program to exploit open sources of information.
Requires the Director of National Intelligence to refocus intelligence reform from reorganization to problem solving, including the establishment of a human resource coordination office to develop a comprehensive human resource strategy to optimize resource allocation against critical problems.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 26, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Jan 26, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S601-604)
- Jan 26, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S600-601)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Alliances
- Arab countries
- Area studies
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Army
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Civil-military relations
- Computer software
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continuing education
- Cost accounting
- Counterintelligence
- Covert operations
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Cultural relations
- Department of Defense
- Department of State
- Diplomacy
- Economics and Public Finance
- Employment tests
- Evacuation of civilians
- Exchange of persons programs
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive reorganization
- Federal officials
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Intelligence officers
- International Affairs
- International broadcasting
- International education
- Iraq compilation
- Islamic countries
- Language and languages
- Legislation
- Marines
- Middle East and North Africa
- Military civic action
- Military command and control
- Military doctrine
- Military education
- Military intelligence
- Military maneuvers
- Military occupation
- Military operations
- Military policy
- Military readiness
- Military technology
- Military training
- Nonprofit organizations
- Officer personnel
- Personnel management
- Planning-programming-budgeting
- President and foreign policy
- Public opinion
- Recruiting of employees
- Regionalism (International organization)
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Special forces (Military science)
- Strategic planning
- Terrorism
- Translating and interpreting
- War games
- War relief
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