Sec. 1661. Review of Missile Defense Agency budget submissions for ground-based midcourse defense and evaluation of alternative ground-based interceptor deployments
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the ground-based midcourse defense system. The report under paragraph
(1)shall include an evaluation of each of the following: The modernization requirements for the ground-based midcourse system, including all command and control, ground systems, sensors and sensor interfaces, boosters and kill vehicles, and integration of known future systems and components. The obsolescence of such systems and components. The industrial base requirements relating to the ground-based midcourse system. The extent to which the estimated levels of annual funding included in the most recent budget and the future-years defense program submitted under section 221 of this title fully fund the requirements under clause (i). Not later than 30 days after the date on which each budget is submitted through January 31, 2021, the Director shall submit to the congressional defense committees an update to the report under paragraph (1). Not later than 60 days after the date on which each budget is submitted through January 31, 2021, the Commander of the United States Northern Command shall certify to the congressional defense committees that the most recent defense budget materials include a sufficient level of funding for the ground-based midcourse defense system to modernize the system to remain paced ahead of the developing limited ballistic missile threat to the homeland, including from an accidental or unauthorized ballistic missile attack. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Missile Defense Agency shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on transportable ground-based interceptors. Such report shall detail the views of the Director regarding— the cost that is unconstrained by current projected budget levels for the Missile Defense Agency (including a detailed program development production and deployment cost and schedule for the earliest technically possible deployment), the associated manning, and the comparative cost (including as compared to developing a fixed ground-based interceptor site), technical readiness, and feasibility of a transportable ground-based interceptor as a means to deploy additional ground-based interceptors for the defense of the United States and the operational value of a transportable ground-based interceptor for the defense of the homeland against a limited ballistic missile attack, including from accidental or unauthorized ballistic missile launch; the type and number of flight and or intercept tests that would be required to validate the capability and compatibility of a transportable ground-based interceptor in the ballistic missile defense system; the enabling capabilities, and the cost of such capabilities, to support such a system; any safety consideration of a transportable ground-based interceptor; and other matters that the Director determines pertinent to such a system. The report submitted under subsection
(b)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. In this section, the terms budget and defense budget materials have the meanings given those terms in section 231 of title 10, United States Code.