Sec. 1606. Government Accountability Office assessment of satellite acquisition by National Reconnaissance Office
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The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct an assessment, for calendar year 2017 and each calendar year thereafter, of the cost, schedule, and performance of each program of the National Reconnaissance Office for developing, acquiring, launching, and deploying satellites or overhead reconnaissance systems that, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act, receives funding from the Military Intelligence Program or is supported by personnel of the Department of Defense.
The Comptroller General shall regularly inform the appropriate congressional committees with respect to any matters relating to the cost, schedule, or performance of a program assessed under subsection
(a)that the Comptroller General considers significant. The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office shall provide to the Comptroller General, in a timely manner, access to the information the Comptroller General requires to conduct the assessment required by subsection (a). In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.