Sec. 1505. Acquisition of space-based tactical data capability
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Congress finds that robust competition in the space industrial base is essential to ensuring United States space superiority and the ability of the United States Space Force to provide national security mission-critical space warfighting systems and operations across the joint force. Chapter 135 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The head of an agency shall, to the maximum extent practicable, ensure that— space acquisitions employ procedures that maximize competition; and mission-critical national security space-based systems that deliver space-based tactical data within a program and across the armed forces shall, to the greatest extent practicable, be procured from an open competition allowing for competition between multiple vendors, and the products of such vendors shall comply with interfaces and standards that maximize resilience and interoperability with Department of Defense systems. .
The table of sections for chapter 135 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 2279e. Contracting for space-based functional data capability. .