Sec. 1662. Acceleration of the deployment of hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor payload
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Not later than 15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall— assign the Director of the Missile Defense Agency with the principal responsibility for the development and deployment of a hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor payload through the end of fiscal year 2022; and submit to the congressional defense committees certification of such assignment. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees— a determination regarding whether responsibility for a hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor payload should be transitioned to the United States Space Force at the end of fiscal year 2022 or later; and if the Secretary so determines, a plan for transition of primary responsibility that minimizes disruption to the program and provides for sufficient funding as described in subsection (b)(1).
At the same time that the President submits to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, the annual budget request of the President for fiscal year 2022, the Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller and the Director for Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation shall jointly submit to the congressional defense committees a certification as to whether the hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor program is sufficiently funded in the future-years defense program.
Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act for fiscal year 2021 under the Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, account for the Office of Secretary of Defense travel of persons assigned to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, not more than 50 percent of such funds may be obligated or expended until the certification required by paragraph
(1)is submitted under such paragraph. Section 1683(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 ( Public Law 115–91 ; 10 U.S.C. 2431 note) is amended— by striking
(a)and inserting the following: In general .— ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: The Director shall begin on-orbit testing of a hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor no later than December 31, 2022, with full operational deployment as soon as technically feasible thereafter. The Secretary of Defense may waive the deadline for testing specified in paragraph
(2)if the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees a report containing— the explanation why the Secretary cannot meet such deadline; the technical risks and estimated cost of accelerating the program to attempt to meet such deadline; an assessment of threat systems that could not be detected or tracked persistently due to waiving such deadline; and a plan, including a timeline, for beginning the required testing. . Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chair of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council established under section 181 of title 10, United States Code, shall— complete an assessment on whether all efforts being made by the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force, and the Space Development Agency relating to space-based sensing and tracking capabilities for missile defense are aligned with the requirements of United States Strategic Command, United States Northern Command, United States European Command, and United States Indo-Pacific Command for missile tracking and missile warning that have been validated by the Joint Requirements Oversight Council; and submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the findings of the Chair with respect to the assessment conducted under paragraph (1).
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Acceleration of the deployment of hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor payload
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