Sec. 220. OPERATIONALLY RESPONSIVE SPACE

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## SEC. 220 OPERATIONALLY RESPONSIVE SPACE ###

(a)Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— ####

(1)it remains the policy of the United States, as expressed in section 913(a) of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2355), to demonstrate, acquire, and deploy an effective capability for operationally responsive space to support military users and operations from space, which shall consist of— #####

(A)responsive satellite payloads and busses built to common technical standards; #####

(B)low-cost space launch vehicles and supporting range operations that facilitate the timely launch and on-orbit operations of satellites; #####

(C)responsive command and control capabilities; and #####

(D)concepts of operations, tactics, techniques, and procedures that permit the use of responsive space assets for combat and military operations other than war; and ####

(2)the Operationally Responsive Space Program Office has demonstrated through multiple launches since 2009 an ability to accomplish many of the policy objectives of the Operationally Responsive Space Program through specific missions, but has not executed a mission that leverages all policy objectives of such Program in a single mission. ###

(b)Limitation Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2014 for the Department of Defense for the space-based infrared systems space modernization initiative wide-field-of-view testbed, not more than 50 percent may be obligated or expended until the Executive Agent for Space of the Department of Defense certifies to the congressional defense committees that the Secretary of Defense is carrying out the Operationally Responsive Space Program Office in accordance with section 2273a of title 10, United States Code. ###

(c)Report Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Executive Agent for Space of the Department of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report regarding a potential mission that would seek to leverage all policy objectives of the Operationally Responsive Space Program in a single mission.

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Pub. L. 109-364
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Sec. 220

OPERATIONALLY RESPONSIVE SPACE

Pub. L.Pub. L. 109-364

Stat.120 Stat. 2355

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