To direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on challenges relating to information operations, and for other purposes.

Congress makes the following findings:

(1) Information operations play a critical role in the ability for United States policymakers, intelligence professionals, national security operators, and others to influence operational environments in key theaters worldwide.

(2) Information operations, through military information support operations, allow the United States to be proactive, shaping events rather than reacting to them.

(3) However, persistent challenges remain across the enduring, deliberate, and dynamic time horizons, including—

(A) lack of awareness and situational understanding of the information environment;

(B) lack of understanding of influence messaging time horizons; and

(C) lack of support to target audience analysis and assessment of United States operational efforts in the information environment.

The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on concrete steps taken by the Department of Defense to address challenges relating to information operations, in partnership with the intelligence community, so United States information operations are better integrated across the whole of Government.

In this section:

(1) The term congressional defense committees has the meaning given such term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code.

(2) The term intelligence community has the meaning given such term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).