COORDINATION OF VERIFICATION POLICY AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

SEC. 910. COORDINATION OF VERIFICATION POLICY AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES (a) Report.—Not later than June 30, 1989, the President shall submit to Congress a report reviewing the relationship of arms control objectives of the United States with research and development of improved monitoring systems for arms control verification. The review shall include the participation of the Secretaries of Defense, State, and Energy, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. (b) Findings and Recommendations.—The report shall include the findings of the President, and such recommendations for improvements as the President considers appropriate, with respect to the following: (1) The status of coordination among the officers named in subsection (a) in the formulation of the policy of the United States regarding arms control verification. (2) The status of efforts to ensure that such policy is formulated in a manner which takes into account available monitoring technology. (3) The status of efforts to ensure that research and development on monitoring technology evolves concurrently with such policy.