House Panel Pushes Bill Requiring Intel Community to Report on ‘Diversity and Inclusion Efforts’

A prime Home panel accredited the 2022 intelligence neighborhood funding bundle, together with a provision requiring officers to transient Congress on their variety initiatives.

The Intelligence Authorization Act — handed by the Home Intelligence Committee in a bipartisan vote on Thursday — would require the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence to periodically problem reviews with “demographic knowledge and knowledge on the standing of variety and inclusion efforts of the intelligence neighborhood.”

“The invoice handed out of the committee at the moment is a powerful bipartisan bundle, and I wish to thank all of our Members and workers on either side of the aisle for working diligently to contribute to and form this laws,” Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the committee’s chairman, mentioned in a statement.

Earlier IAA packages have ordered the ODNI to report on variety, however the invoice handed Thursday seems to be the primary to require info on inclusion efforts.

For instance, the IAA accredited by the GOP-controlled Senate Choose Committee on Intelligence mandated an ODNI report on hiring practices employed “to guarantee high quality and variety within the workforce of the intelligence neighborhood.”

Nonetheless, the language on “variety and inclusion efforts” within the Home invoice was not included in final yr’s model of the IAA.

The ODNI has additionally revealed a number of diversity reports, and its most up-to-date one highlights the range efforts throughout the intelligence neighborhood.

A January 2017 report from the ODNI contained 36 findings and proposals for the way the intelligence neighborhood might enhance its variety efforts.

“Throughout all grade ranges, the necessity for a extra various and inclusive [intelligence community] workforce was considered as crucial, whereas on the identical time, disappointment was expressed that the problems of bringing a extra various workforce collectively within the [intelligence community] had been nonetheless pervasive,” the report acknowledged.

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