Sec. 1619. Establishment of Space Flag training event
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Not later than December 31, 2020, the Secretary of Defense shall establish an annual capstone training event titled Space Flag for space professionals to— develop and test doctrine, concepts of operation, and tactics, techniques, and procedures, for— protecting and defending assets and interests of the United States through the spectrum of space control activities; operating in the event of degradation or loss of space capabilities; conducting space operations in a conflict that extends to space; deterring conflict in space; and other areas the Secretary determines necessary; and inform and develop the appropriate design of the operational training infrastructure of the space domain, including with respect to appropriate and dedicated ranges, threat replication, test community support, advanced space training requirements, training simulators, and multi-domain force packaging.
In establishing the Space Flag training event under subsection (a), the Secretary shall— model the training event on the Red Flag and Cyber Flag exercises; and ensure that Space Flag includes live, virtual, and constructive training and on-orbit threat replication, as appropriate. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination with the Commander of the Air Force Space Command, the Commander of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and the Commander of the Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a plan to establish the Space Flag training under subsection (a), including a description of each objective of the training.