IMPROVEMENT OF INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION.

SEC. 809. IMPROVEMENT OF INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION. (a) Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection.—Section 102 of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended by section 805(a) of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following: “(f) Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection.—(1) To assist the Director of Central Intelligence in carrying out the Director’s responsibilities under this Act, there shall be an Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. “(2) The Assistant Director for Collection shall assist the Director of Central Intelligence in carrying out the Director’s collection responsibilities in order to ensure the efficient and effective collection of national intelligence.”. (b) Consolidation of Human Intelligence Collection Activities.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of Central Intelligence and the Deputy Secretary of Defense shall jointly submit to the Committee on Armed Services and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Committee on National Security and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives a report on the ongoing efforts of those officials to achieve 110 STAT. 3482commonality, interoperability, and, where practicable, consolidation of the collection of clandestine intelligence from human sources conducted by the Defense Human Intelligence Service of the Department of Defense and the Directorate of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency.