Sec. 924. ELECTRO-OPTICAL IMAGERY

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## SEC. 924 ELECTRO-OPTICAL IMAGERY ###

(a)Identification of Department of Defense Electro-optical Satellite Imagery Requirements ####

(1)Report Not later than April 1, 2013, the Chairman of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council shall submit to the Director of the Congressional Budget Office a report setting forth a comprehensive description of Department of Defense peacetime and wartime requirements for electro-optical satellite imagery. ####

(2)Scope of requirements The requirements under paragraph

(1)shall— #####

(A)be expressed in such terms as are necessary, which may include daily regional and global area coverage and number of point targets, resolution, revisit rates, mean-time to access, latency, redundancy, survivability, and diversity; and #####

(B)take into consideration all types of imagery and collection means available. ###

(b)Assessment of Identified Requirements ####

(1)In general Not later than September 15, 2013, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report setting forth an assessment by the Director of the report required by subsection (a). ####

(2)Elements The assessment required by paragraph

(1)shall include an assessment of the following: #####

(A)The extent to which the requirements of the Department for electro-optical imagery from space can be satisfied by commercial companies using either— ######

(i)current designs; or ######

(ii)enhanced designs that could be developed at low risk. #####

(B)The estimated cost and schedule of satisfying such requirements using commercial companies. ####

(3)Consultation and other resources In preparing the assessment required by paragraph (1), the Director shall— #####

(A)consult widely with officials of the Government, private industry, and academia; and #####

(B)make maximum use of existing studies and modeling and simulations. ####

(4)Access to information The Secretary of Defense shall provide the appropriately cleared staff of the Director of the Congressional Budget Office with such access to information and programs applicable to the assessment required by paragraph

(1)as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall require for the preparation of the assessment. ###

(c)Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— ####

(1)the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and ####

(2)the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.