National Applications Office Defunding (HR2703, 111th Congress)
Current understanding
HR2703 (111th Congress) would prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from obligating or expending any funds for the National Applications Office (NAO) or any successor DHS office that processes requests for classified satellite imagery for civil, homeland security, or law enforcement purposes. The NAO was a DHS component intended to route classified overhead imagery from intelligence community satellites to domestic users, and it drew civil-liberties and oversight concerns. The bill was introduced and referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment; it did not advance, and DHS ultimately discontinued the NAO in 2009.
Evidence log
- 2009-06-17 — To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from obligating or expending funds for the National Applications Office of the Department of Homeland Security.: cross-connection with dhs-ia-infrastructure-protection-reorg-hr5004: Both involve congressional restructuring or defunding of DHS intelligence components handling sensitive information. (novelty: 2)
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To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from obligating or expending funds for the National Applications Office of the Department of Homeland Security.
17-jun-2009
novelty 2
per-area 2
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