Sec. 1673. Report and briefing on multi-object kill vehicle
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Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report, and shall provide to such committees a briefing, on the potential need for a multi-object kill vehicle in future architecture of the ballistic missile defense system. Such report and briefing shall include the following: An assessment of the technology readiness level of needed components and the operational system for the multi-object kill vehicle.
An assessment of the costs and a comprehensive development and testing schedule to deploy the multi-object kill vehicle by 2025. An assessment of whether the multi-object kill vehicle was considered in the redesigned kill vehicle program re-baseline as a replacement for future ground-based midcourse defense system kill vehicles. A concept of operations with respect to how a multi-object kill vehicle capability could be employed and how such capability compares to alternative ground-based midcourse defense system interceptors.