To improve efficient use of sensitive compartmented information facilities.

SA 1803. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. EFFICIENT USE OF SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED
INFORMATION FACILITIES.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in
consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall issue
revised guidance authorizing and directing Government
agencies and their appropriately cleared contractors to
process, store, use, and discuss sensitive compartmented
information (SCI) at facilities previously approved to handle
such information, without need for further approval by agency
or by site. Such guidance shall apply to controlled access
programs of the intelligence community and to special access
programs of the Department of Defense.
______