Sec. 231. NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAM
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## SEC. 231 NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAM **[**[10 U.S.C. 2431 note](/us/usc/t10/s2431)**]** ###
(a)Program Structure To preserve the option of achieving an initial operational capability in fiscal year 2003, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the National Missile Defense Program is structured and programmed for funding so as to support a test, in fiscal year 1999, of an integrated national missile defense system that is representative of the national missile defense system architecture that could achieve initial operational capability in fiscal year 2003. ###
(b)Elements of NMD System The national missile defense system architecture specified in subsection
(a)shall consist of the following elements: ####
(1)An interceptor system that optimizes defensive coverage of the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii against limited ballistic missile attack (whether accidental, unauthorized, or deliberate). ####
(2)Ground-based radars. ####
(3)Space-based sensors. ####
(4)Battle management, command, control, and communications (BM/C3). ###
(c)Plan for NMD System Development and Deployment Not later than February 15, 1998, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a plan for the development and deployment of a national missile defense system that could achieve initial operational capability in fiscal year 2003. The plan shall include the following matters: ####
(1)A detailed description of the system architecture selected for development. ####
(2)A discussion of the justification for the selection of that particular architecture. ####
(3)The Secretary's estimate of the amounts of the appropriations that would be necessary for research, development, test, evaluation, and for procurement for each of fiscal years 1999 through 2003 in order to achieve an initial operational capability of the system architecture in fiscal year 2003. ####
(4)For each activity necessary for the development and deployment of the national missile defense system architecture selected by the Secretary that would at some point conflict with the terms of the ABM Treaty, if any— #####
(A)a description of the activity; #####
(B)a description of the point at which the activity would conflict with the terms of the ABM Treaty; #####
(C)the legal analysis justifying the Secretary's determination regarding the point at which the activity would conflict with the terms of the ABM Treaty; and #####
(D)an estimate of the time at which such point would be reached in order to achieve a test of an integrated missile defense system in fiscal year 1999 and initial operational capability of such a system in fiscal year 2003. ###
(d)Funding for Fiscal Year 1998 Of the funds authorized to be appropriated under section 201(4), $978,091,000 shall be available for the National Missile Defense Program. ###
(e)ABM Treaty Defined In this section, the term “**ABM Treaty**” means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, signed at Moscow on May 26, 1972, and includes the Protocol to that treaty, signed at Moscow on July 3, 1974. * * * * * * *
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