---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3049b"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3049b"
heading: "Enabling intelligence community integration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3049b"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — National Security"
  - "Subchapter I — Coordination for National Security"
---

# §3049b. Enabling intelligence community integration

- (a) **Provision of goods or services—** Subject to and in accordance with any guidance and requirements developed by the Director of [National Intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=5), the head of an element of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) may provide goods or services to another element of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) without reimbursement or transfer of funds for hoteling initiatives for [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) employees and affiliates defined in any such guidance and requirements issued by the Director of [National Intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=5).
- (b) **Approval—** Prior to the provision of goods or services pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a), the head of the element of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) providing such goods or services and the head of the element of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) receiving such goods or services shall approve such provision.
- (c) **Hoteling defined—** In this section, the term “hoteling” means an alternative work arrangement in which employees of one element of the [intelligence community](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4) are authorized flexible work arrangements to work part of the time at one or more alternative worksite locations, as appropriately authorized.

## Source credit

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, § 113C, as added Pub. L. 118–159, div. F, title LXVI, § 6611(a), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2503.)