PUBLIC LAW 107-306—NOV. 27, 2002 116 STAT. 2437 (j) CONTRACTS.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the National CounterintelHgence Executive may enter into any contract, lease, cooperative agreement, or other transaction that the Executive considers appropriate to carry out the functions of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive under this section. (2) The authority under paragraph (1) to enter into contracts, leases, cooperative agreements, and other transactions shall be subject to any terms, conditions, and limitations applicable to the Central Intelligence Agency under law with respect to similar contracts, leases, cooperative agreements, and other transactions. (k) TREATMENT OF ACTIVITIES UNDER CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE LAWS.— The files of the Office shall be treated as operational files of the Central Intelligence Agency for purposes of section 701 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 431) to the extent such files meet criteria under subsection (b) of that section for treatment of files as operational files of an element of the Agency. (1) OVERSIGHT BY CONGRESS.— The location of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive within the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence shall not be construed as affecting access by Congress, or any committee of Congress, to— (1) any information, document, record, or paper in the possession of the Office; or (2) any personnel of the Office. (m) CONSTRUCTION.— Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the authority of the Director of Central Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, or the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as provided or specified under the National Security Act of 1947 or under other provisions of law. TITLE X—NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND DEVEL- OPMENT PROGRAMS OF THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY SEC. 1001. FINDINGS. 50 USC 401 note. Congress makes the following findings: (1) Research and development efforts under the purview of the intelligence community are vitally important to the national security of the United States. (2) The intelligence community must operate in a dynamic, highly-challenging environment, characterized by rapid technological growth, against a growing number of hostile, technically- sophisticated threats. Research and development programs under the purview of the intelligence community are critical to ensuring that intelligence agencies, and their personnel, are provided with important technological capabilities to detect, characterize, assess, and ultimately counter the full range of threats to the national security of the United States. (3) There is a need to review the full range of current research and development programs under the purview of the intelligence community, evaluate such programs against the scientific and technological fields judged to be of most importance, and articulate program and resource priorities for future
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