Sec. 1663. Requirement for testing of redesigned kill vehicle prior to production
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It is the sense of Congress that the Director of the Missile Defense Agency must address the technical issues of the redesigned kill vehicle prior to moving forward with development, procurement, and fielding of the vehicle. Subsection
(b)of section 1683 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 ( Public Law 115–232 ; 132 Stat. 2163) is amended to read as follows: The Secretary of Defense, without delegation, may waive subsection
(a)if— the Secretary determines that the waiver is in the interest of national security; the Secretary conducts an assessment of the missile developments of both North Korea and Iran during the 18-month period preceding the date of the waiver; the Secretary determines that the threat of missiles is advancing at a pace that requires additional capacity of the ground-based midcourse defense system by 2023, including in light of the assessment conducted under paragraph (2); the Secretary determines that the waiver is appropriate in light of the assessment conducted by the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation under subsection (c); the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees a report containing— a notice of the waiver, including the rationale of the Secretary for making the waiver; and a certification by the Secretary that the Secretary has analyzed and accepts the risk of making and implementing a lot production decision for the redesigned kill vehicle prior to the vehicle undergoing a successful flight intercept test; and a period of 30 days elapses following the date on which the Secretary submits the report under paragraph (5). . Subsection
(c)of such section is amended by inserting and to the congressional defense committees after to the Secretary of Defense .
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Sec. 1663
Requirement for testing of redesigned kill vehicle prior to production
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