Sec. 605. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SPACE ACTIVITIES
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## SEC. 605 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SPACE ACTIVITIES **[**[10 U.S.C. 2271 note](/us/usc/t10/s2271)**]** ###
(a)Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means the congressional intelligence committees, the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. ###
(b)Update to Strategy for Comprehensive Interagency Review of the United States National Security Overhead Satellite Architecture Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall issue a written update to the strategy required by section 312 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (division M of Public Law 114-113; 129 Stat. 2919). ###
(c)Unity of Effort in Space Operations Between the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense ####
(1)Requirement for Plan Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a plan to functionally integrate the governance, operations, analysis, collection, policy, and acquisition activities related to space and counterspace carried out by the intelligence community. The plan shall include analysis of no fewer than 2 alternative constructs to implement this plan, and an assessment of statutory, policy, organizational, programmatic, and resources changes that may be required to implement each alternative construct. ####
(2)Appointment by the director of national intelligence Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall appoint a single official to oversee development of the plan required by paragraph (1). ####
(3)Scope of plan The plan required by paragraph
(1)shall include methods to functionally integrate activities carried out by— #####
(A)the National Reconnaissance Office; #####
(B)the functional managers for signals intelligence and geospatial intelligence; #####
(C)the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; #####
(D)other Intelligence Community elements with space-related programs; #####
(E)joint interagency efforts; and #####
(F)other entities as identified by the Director of National Intelligence in coordination with the Secretary of Defense. ###
(d)Intelligence Community Space Workforce Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees a workforce plan to recruit, develop, and retain personnel in the intelligence community with skills and experience in space and counterspace operations, analysis, collection, policy, and acquisition. ###
(e)National Space Defense Center ####
(1)Submission to congress The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office and the Commander of the United States Space Command, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress concept of operations and requirements documents for the National Space Defense Center by the date that is the earlier of— #####
(A)the completion of the experimental phase of such Center; or #####
(B)30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. ####
(2)Quarterly briefings The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office and the Commander of the United States Space Command, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, shall provide to the appropriate committees of Congress briefings providing updates on activities and progress of the National Space Defense Center to begin 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. Such briefings shall be quarterly for the first year following enactment, and annually thereafter.
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Sec. 605
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SPACE ACTIVITIES
Stat.129 Stat. 2919
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