JOINT COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW OF PROLIFERATION PROGRAMS OF THE UNITED STATES.

SEC. 1606. JOINT COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW OF PROLIFERATION PROGRAMS OF THE UNITED STATES. (a) Establishment.—(1) There is hereby established a Non-Proliferation Program Review Committee composed of the following members: (A) The Secretary of Defense. (B) The Secretary of State. (C) The Secretary of Energy. (D) The Director of Central Intelligence. (E) The Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. (F) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (2) The Secretary of Defense shall chair the committee. (3) A member of the committee may designate a representative to perform routinely the duties of the member. A representative shall be in a position of Deputy Assistant Secretary or a position equivalent to or above the level of Deputy Assistant Secretary. A representative of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall be a person in a grade equivalent to that of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. (4) The Secretary of Defense may delegate to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology the performance of the duties of the Chairman of the committee. (5) The members of the committee shall first meet not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. Upon designation of working level officials and representatives, the members of the committee shall jointly notify the appropriate committees of Congress that the committee has been constituted. The notification shall identify the representatives designated pursuant to paragraph (3) and the working level officials of the committee. (b) Purposes of the Committee.—The purposes of the committee are as follows: (1) To optimize funding for, and ensure the development and deployment of— 107 STAT. 1846 (A) highly effective technologies and capabilities for the detection, monitoring, collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of information in support of United States nonproliferation policy; and (B) disabling technologies in support of such policy. (2) To identify and eliminate undesirable redundancies or uncoordinated efforts in the development and deployment of such technologies and capabilities. (c) Duties.—The committee shall— (1) identify and review existing and proposed capabilities (including counternroliferation capabilities) and technologies for support of United States nonproliferation policy with regard (A) intelligence; (B) battlefield surveillance; (C) passive defenses; (D) active defenses; (E) counterforce capabilities; (F) inspection support; and (G) support of export control programs; (2) as part of the review pursuant to paragraph (1), review all directed energy and laser programs for detecting, characterizing, or interdicting weapons of mass destruction, their delivery platforms, or other orbiting platforms with a view to the elimination of redundancy and the optimization of funding for the systems not eliminated; (3) review the programs (including the crisis management program) developed by the Department of State to counter terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems; (4) prescribe requirements and priorities for the development and deployment of highly effective capabilities and technologies to support fully the nonproliferation policy of the United States; (5) identify deficiencies in existing capabilities and technologies; (6) formulate near-term, mid-term, and long-term programmatic options for meeting requirements established by the committee and eliminating deficiencies identified by the committee; and (7) in carrying out the other duties of the committee, ensure that all types of counterproliferation actions are considered. (d) Access to Information.—The committee shall have access to information on all programs, projects, and activities of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Energy, the intelligence community, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency that are pertinent to the purposes and duties of the committee. (e) Budget Recommendations.—The committee may submit to the officials referred to in subsection (a) any recommendation regarding existing or planned budgets as the committee considers appropriate to encourage funding for capabilities and technologies at the level necessary to support United States nonproliferation policy. (f) Termination of Committee.—The committee shall cease to exist six months after the date on which the report of the Secretary of Defense under section 1606 is submitted to Congress. 107 STAT. 1847