Sec. 1673. Acceleration of the deployment of persistent space-based sensor architecture
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It is the Sense of the Senate that— Congress has expressed support for a space-based missile defense sensor program, in the two most recent enacted National Defense Authorization Acts; the Secretary of Defense should rapidly develop and deploy a persistent, space-based sensor architecture to ensure missile defenses of the United States are more effective against ballistic missile threats and more responsive to emergent threats from hypersonic and cruise missiles; the responsibility for developing and deploying a hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor should remain within the Director of the Missile Defense Agency; and the Director of the Missile Defense Agency should deploy a hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor constellation as soon as technically feasible.
Not later than 30 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; and submit to the congressional defense committees certification of such assignment. 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 2021, the Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller and the Director for Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation shall jointly certify to the congressional defense committees whether the hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor program is sufficiently funded in the future-years defense program for the Missile Defense Agency.
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 and inserting the following:
(a)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, 2021, 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 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the progress of 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 and how each of such organizations will work together to avoid duplication of efforts. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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Sec. 1673
Acceleration of the deployment of persistent space-based sensor architecture
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