Sec. 1605. Annual briefing on commercial space strategy of the Space Force
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Congress finds that the strategy of the Space Force titled U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Strategy published in April 2024, indicates that the Space Force intends to focus future efforts and resources on the following mission areas: Satellite communications. Space domain awareness. Space access mobility and logistics. Tactical surveillance, reconnaissance, and tracking. Space based environmental monitoring. Cyberspace operations. Command and control. Positioning, navigation, and timing.
It is the sense of Congress that— the Space Force should continue to pursue partnerships with the commercial space industry of the United States to create a true hybrid architecture that provides increased capabilities and resilience; in assessing the potential use of commercial solutions to support space domain awareness, the Chief of Space Operations should consider— conducting— dynamic rendezvous and proximity operations, cooperative and noncooperative non-earth imaging, and noncooperative rendezvous and proximity operations with resident space objects; and routine characterization, anomaly-resolution, and broad metric observations of resident space objects; entering into long term purchase arrangements for data and services to support space domain awareness; and functionally supporting an enterprise architecture for space command and control and space domain awareness; in developing and fulfilling requirements relating to space access mobility and logistics, the Chief of Space Operations should consider the use of commercial solutions such as— geostationary commercial services for life extension, refueling, and end of life mission disposal; orbital sustainment and mission extension capabilities; maneuver services for unprepared clients in geostationary earth orbit; and nontraditional concepts for dynamic space operations like electromechanical acceleration platforms; and the Chief of Space Operations and the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration should continue to engage with the congressional defense committees on any changes to acquisition authorities that are needed to better integrate commercial space capabilities within existing and future Government architectures.
Not later than 10 days after the date on which the budget of the President for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029 is submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, the Chief of Space Operations, in coordination with Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration, shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing that includes the information described in paragraph
(2)with respect to each mission area specified in subsection (a). Each briefing under paragraph
(1)shall include, with respect to each mission area specified in subsection
(a)for the fiscal year concerned, the following: Of the funds requested for the mission area, the percentage that are expected to be used to fulfill requirements through the provision of commercial solutions compared to the percentage that are expected to be used to fulfill such requirements through programs of record. A description of the requirements for each mission area and an explanation of whether and how the use of commercial solutions has been considered for fulfilling such requirements. A description of any training or wargaming exercises that are expected to integrate commercial solutions and include the participation of providers of such solutions. Any force designs of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center for which commercial solutions were considered as part of a force design analysis from the previous fiscal year. An update on the status of any efforts to integrate commercial systems into respective Government architecture. With respect to the contracts entered into to support the mission area— the number of such contracts; the types of contracts used; the length of time covered by such contracts; and the amount of funds committed under such contracts. In this section, the term commercial solutions includes commercial products, commercial services, and providers of such products and services.