Program on advancement of foreign languages critical to the intelligence community

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Title 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE > CHAPTER 44—NATIONAL SECURITY > SUBCHAPTER VIII—EDUCATION IN SUPPORT OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE > Part B—Foreign Languages Program

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The Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence may jointly carry out a program to advance skills in foreign languages that are critical to the capability of the intelligence community to carry out the national security activities of the United States (hereinafter in this part referred to as the “Foreign Languages Program”).

( July 26, 1947, ch. 343 , title X, § 1011, as added Pub. L. 108–487, title VI, § 612(a)(2) , Dec. 23, 2004 , 118 Stat. 3955 .)

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