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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 · Sec. 1618

Sec. 1618. PLAN ON FULL INTEGRATION AND EXPLOITATION OF OVERHEAD PERSISTENT INFRARED CAPABILITY

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## SEC. 1618 PLAN ON FULL INTEGRATION AND EXPLOITATION OF OVERHEAD PERSISTENT INFRARED CAPABILITY **[**[10 U.S.C. 2431 note](/us/usc/t10/s2431)**]** ###
(a)Plan Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commander of the United States Strategic Command and the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional committees a plan for the integration of overhead persistent infrared capabilities to support the missions specified in subsection (b)(1). ###
(b)Elements The plan under subsection
(a)shall— ####
(1)ensure that all overhead persistent infrared capabilities of the United States, including such capabilities that are planned to be developed, are integrated to allow for such capabilities to be exploited to support the requirements of the missions of the Department of Defense relating to— #####
(A)strategic and theater missile warning; #####
(B)ballistic and cruise missile defense, including with respect to missile tracking, fire control, and kill assessment; #####
(C)technical intelligence supporting missile warning; #####
(D)battlespace awareness; #####
(E)other technical intelligence; #####
(F)civil and environmental missions, including with respect to the collection of weather data; and #####
(G)battle damage assessments; and ####
(2)establish clear benchmarks by which to establish acquisition plans, manning, and budget requirements. ###
(c)Annual Determination The Secretary of Defense shall include, together with, or not later than 30 days after, the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the budget of the Department of Defense for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2028 (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code), a written determination of how the plan under subsection
(a)is being implemented. ###
(d)Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— ####
(1)the congressional defense committees; and ####
(2)the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
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