---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3043b"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3043b"
heading: "Annual reports on worldwide threats"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3043b"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — National Security"
  - "Subchapter I — Coordination for National Security"
---

# §3043b. Annual reports on worldwide threats

- (a) **Definition of appropriate congressional committees—** In this section, the term “[appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3352.md?p=1)” means—
  - (1) the [congressional intelligence committees](/usc/50/3003.md?p=7); and
  - (2) the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- (b) **Annual reports—** Not later than the first Monday in February 2021, and each year thereafter, the Director of [National Intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=5), in coordination with the heads of the elements of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4), shall submit to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3352.md?p=1) a report containing an assessment of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) with respect to worldwide threats to the national security of the United States.
- (c) **Form—** Each report under [subsection (b)](#b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex only for the protection of [intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=1) sources and methods relating to the matters contained in the report.
- (d) **Hearings—**
  - (1) **Open hearings—** Upon request by the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3352.md?p=1), the Director (and any other head of an element of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) determined appropriate by the committees in consultation with the Director) shall testify before such committees in an open setting regarding a report under [subsection (b)](#b).
  - (2) **Closed hearings—** Any information that may not be disclosed during an open hearing under [paragraph (1)](#d-1) in order to protect [intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=1) sources and methods may instead be discussed in a closed hearing that immediately follows such open hearing.

## Source credit

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, § 108B, as added Pub. L. 116–260, div. W, title VI, § 617(a), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2400.)