MEASUREMENT AND SIGNATURE INTELLIGENCE.

SEC. 502. MEASUREMENT AND SIGNATURE INTELLIGENCE. (a) Study of Options.— The Director of Central Intelligence shall, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, conduct a study of the utility and feasibility of various options for improving the management and organization of measurement and signature intelligence, including— (1) the option of establishing a centralized tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination facility for measurement and signature intelligence; (2) options for recapitalizing and reconfiguring the current systems for measurement and signature intelligence; and (3) the operation and maintenance costs of the various options. (b) Report.— Not later than April 1, 2001, the Director and the Secretary shall jointly submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on their findings as a result of the study required by subsection (a). The report shall set forth any recommendations that the Director and the Secretary consider appropriate. (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.— In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means the following: (1) The Committee on Armed Services and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. (2) The Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.