Sec. 1603. Commercial space domain awareness capabilities
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force shall procure commercial space domain awareness services by awarding at least two contracts for such services. Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2021 for the enterprise space battle management command and control, not more than 75 percent may be obligated or expended until the date on which the Secretary of Defense, without delegation, certifies to the congressional committees that the Secretary of the Air Force has awarded the contracts under subsection (a).
Not later than January 31, 2021, the Chief of Space Operations, in coordination with the Secretary of the Air Force, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report detailing the commercial space domain awareness services, data, and analytics of objects in low-earth orbit that have been purchased during the two-year period preceding the date of the report. The report shall be submitted in unclassified form. In this section, the term commercial space domain awareness services means space domain awareness data, processing software, and analytics derived from best-in-breed commercial capabilities to address warfighter requirements in low-earth orbit and fill gaps in current space domain capabilities of the Space Force, including commercial capabilities to— provide conjunction and maneuver alerts; monitor breakup and launch events; and detect and track objects smaller than 10 centimeters in size.