Pub. L. 115-31, div. F, tit. III (as amended)

301.The Secretary of Homeland Security, or the designee of the Secretary, shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives on plans to—(1)implement a facial recognition matching capability for Automated Biometric Identification System holdings, including the ability to search, store, and match, that is independent of other biometric modalities but scalable for future needs;(2)accelerate the development of multi-modal biometric capability (Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology Increment 2) to ensure that full multi-modal capability is available for stakeholders by the end of fiscal year 2018;(3)establish a new, equitable governance structure in fiscal year 2017 that ensures stakeholder mission requirements are prioritized for implementation, to include—(A)a project plan and capability execution schedule for each stakeholder mission;(B)stakeholder management of all requests for services;(C)a weighted on-boarding process for new requirements and priorities; and(D)an executive stakeholder review process; and(4)demonstrate new agile projects focused on the ability to fuse biographic intelligence information with biometric data.