Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

Key Points

• The bill authorizes $568 million for the Intelligence Community Management Account and $514 million for the CIA Retirement and Disability Fund for fiscal year 2027, with most detailed spending amounts kept in a classified schedule for national security reasons.
• A major new title on artificial intelligence establishes policies for AI use in targeting decisions, creates a pilot program to share threat intelligence with private AI companies, requires clear labeling of AI outputs used in lethal targeting, and bans AI models from intelligence systems if they generate illegal content like child sexual abuse material.
• The bill creates formal rules for "unmasking" requests, which is when officials ask to reveal the names of Americans found in intelligence reports. Each request must include a written justification and be approved by a senior official, with records kept for at least 10 years. Requests during presidential transitions face extra scrutiny.
• The bill creates a China-Taiwan Strategic Warning Task Force to coordinate intelligence on potential Chinese military aggression against Taiwan, bans the intelligence community from buying or using ground robots from China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea, and expands restrictions on Chinese tech products and services.
• Congress would require continued intelligence support to Ukraine until a voluntary peace settlement is reached, mandate notification within 48 hours if intelligence sharing with Israel, Ukraine, or Taiwan is paused or cut, and expand intelligence sharing with Israel and Abraham Accords countries.
• Federal employees in the intelligence community would gain parental bereavement leave for miscarriage, stillbirth, or loss of an unborn child due to a pregnancy emergency such as treatment for an ectopic pregnancy.