Sec. 1754. Space strategies and assessment
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It is the sense of Congress that the United States Government should support activities in space by— ensuring robust, innovative, and increasingly capable civil and national security space programs; supporting effective and stable space partnerships with allies of the United States; leveraging, to the greatest extent practicable and appropriate, commercial space capabilities; and ensuring freedom of navigation and providing measures to assure the supply chain related to such space assets and manufacturing processes of such assets.
Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President, in consultation with the National Space Council, shall develop and maintain a strategy to ensure that the United States, as appropriate, strengthens civil and national security capabilities and operations in space through— challenging and inspiring civil space goals and programs; partnerships with allies of the United States; leveraging of commercial space capabilities; ensuring supply chain and manufacturing processes for space assets; sustaining a highly skilled, world-class workforce; and considering the financial security and cybersecurity concerns threatening commercial and Federal Government launch sites of the United States.
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chair of the National Space Council, in consultation with relevant departments and agencies of the Federal Government, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report setting forth— the strategy under subsection (b); and a plan to implement the strategy, including to— ensure the freedom of navigation of space assets and protect the supply chain relating to such assets and manufacturing process of such assets from threats from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, which may include protection from intellectual property theft and threats with respect to electronic warfare capabilities; identify capabilities required to ensure civil and national security space leadership; provide contingency and resiliency for civil and national security space operations; and strengthen relations with the allies of the United States with respect to space.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes— an assessment of the capabilities and role of relevant departments and agencies of the Federal Government to— ensure access to launch, communications, and freedom of navigation and other relevant infrastructure and services for civil and national security space programs and activities; and identify vulnerabilities that could affect access to space infrastructure; and address financial security and cybersecurity concerns threatening commercial and Federal Government launch sites of the United States; and recommendations and costs to improve the capabilities assessed pursuant to subparagraph (A), including recommendations with respect to— the electronic warfare capabilities of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea; and the use of counterspace weapons and cyber attacks by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
The report under paragraph
(1)may include a classified annex. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives; the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives; the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. The term launch site has the meaning given that term under section 50902 of title 51, United States Code.