---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3308a"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3308a"
heading: "Provision of certain information to Government Accountability Office by National Reconnaissance Office"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3308a"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Miscellaneous Intelligence Community Authorities"
  - "Subchapter I — Budget and Oversight"
---

# §3308a. Provision of certain information to Government Accountability Office by National Reconnaissance Office

- (a) **In general—** The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office shall provide to the Comptroller General of the United States, in a timely manner, access to the cost, schedule, and performance information the Comptroller General requires to conduct assessments, as required by any of the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3316c.md?p=d), of programs of the National Reconnaissance Office.
- (b) **Appropriate congressional committees defined—** In this section, the term “[appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3316c.md?p=d)” means—
  - (1) the congressional defense committees; and
  - (2) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XVI, § 1620, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2596.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Congressional Defense Committees” Defined

Congressional defense committees means the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives, see section 3 of Pub. L. 114–328, 130 Stat. 2025. See note under section 101 of Title 10, Armed Forces.