Sec. 1694. REVIEW OF MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY BUDGET SUBMISSIONS FOR GROUND-BASED MIDCOURSE DEFENSE AND EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE GROUND-BASED INTERCEPTOR DEPLOYMENTS
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## SEC. 1694 REVIEW OF MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY BUDGET SUBMISSIONS FOR GROUND-BASED MIDCOURSE DEFENSE AND EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE GROUND-BASED INTERCEPTOR DEPLOYMENTS ###
(a)Budget Sufficiency ####
(1)Report Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the ground-based midcourse defense system. ####
(2)Elements The report under paragraph
(1)shall include an evaluation of each of the following: #####
(A)The modernization requirements for the ground-based midcourse system, including all command and control, ground systems, sensors and sensor interfaces, boosters and kill vehicles, and integration of known future systems and components. #####
(B)The obsolescence of such systems and components. #####
(C)The industrial base requirements relating to the ground-based midcourse system, as determined by the Director of the Missile Defense Agency. #####
(D)The extent to which the estimated levels of annual funding included in the most recent budget and the future-years defense program submitted under section 221 of title 10, United States Code, fully fund the requirements under subparagraph (A). ####
(3)Updates Not later than 30 days after the date on which each budget is submitted through January 31, 2021, the Director shall submit to the congressional defense committees an update to the report under paragraph (1). ###
(b)Evaluation of Transportable Ground-based Interceptor Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Missile Defense Agency shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on transportable ground-based interceptors. Such report shall detail the views of the Director regarding— ####
(1)the cost that is unconstrained by current projected budget levels for the Missile Defense Agency (including a detailed program development production and deployment cost and schedule for the earliest technically possible deployment), the associated manning, and the comparative cost (including as compared to developing a fixed ground-based interceptor site), technical readiness, and feasibility of a transportable ground-based interceptor as a means to deploy additional ground-based interceptors for the defense of the United States and the operational value of a transportable ground-based interceptor for the defense of the homeland against a limited ballistic missile attack, including from accidental or unauthorized ballistic missile launch; ####
(2)the type and number of flight and or intercept tests that would be required to validate the capability and compatibility of a transportable ground-based interceptor in the ballistic missile defense system; ####
(3)the enabling capabilities, and the cost of such capabilities, to support such a system; ####
(4)any safety consideration of a transportable ground-based interceptor; and ####
(5)other matters that the Director determines pertinent to such a system. ###
(c)Form The report submitted under subsection
(b)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. ###
(d)Definitions In this section, the terms “budget” and “defense budget materials” have the meanings given those terms in section 231 of title 10, United States Code.