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S 4768 116th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food

AIM Act

Introduced: September 30, 2020 Introduced by: Cotton, Tom Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Sep 30, 2020
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Agricultural Intelligence Measures Act or the AIM Act

This bill establishes the Office of Intelligence in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the National Intelligence Program.

The office must

  • leverage the capabilities of the intelligence community and the intelligence-related research of the National Laboratories to ensure that USDA is fully informed of threats by foreign actors to U.S. agriculture;
  • focus on understanding foreign efforts to steal U.S. agriculture knowledge and technology, and develop or implement biological warfare attacks, cyber or clandestine operations, or other means of sabotaging and disrupting U.S. agriculture;
  • prepare, conduct, and facilitate intelligence briefings for USDA;
  • operate as the liaison between USDA and the intelligence community, with the authority to request intelligence collection and analysis on matters related to U.S. agriculture;
  • collaborate with the intelligence community to downgrade intelligence assessments for broader dissemination within USDA; and
  • facilitate the sharing of information on foreign activities related to agriculture with the intelligence community.
What's happening now September 30, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4768: AIM Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4768/
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"S. 4768: AIM Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4768/.
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S. 4768, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4768/.
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