Sec. 1683. DEVELOPMENT OF PERSISTENT SPACE-BASED SENSOR ARCHITECTURE

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## SEC. 1683 DEVELOPMENT OF PERSISTENT SPACE-BASED SENSOR ARCHITECTURE **[**[10 U.S.C. 2431 note](/us/usc/t10/s2431)**]** ###

(a)In General Subject to the availability of appropriations, beginning fiscal year 2019, the Director of the Missile Defense Agency, in coordination with the Commander of the Air Force Space Command and the Commander of the United States Strategic Command, shall develop, using sound acquisition practices, a highly reliable and cost-effective persistent space-based sensor architecture capable of supporting the ballistic missile defense system. ###

(b)Testing and Deployment The Director shall ensure that the sensor architecture developed under subsection

(a)is rigorously tested before final production decisions or operational deployment. ###

(c)Functions The sensor architecture developed under subsection

(a)shall include one or more of the following functions: ####

(1)Control of increased raid sizes. ####

(2)Precision tracking of threat missiles. ####

(3)Fire-control-quality tracks of evolving threat missiles. ####

(4)Enabling of launch-on-remote and engage-on-remote capabilities. ####

(5)Discrimination of warheads. ####

(6)Effective kill assessment. ####

(7)Enhanced shot doctrine. ####

(8)Integration with the command, control, battle management, and communication program of the ballistic missile defense system. ####

(9)Integration with all other elements of the current ballistic missile defense system, including the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, Aegis Ashore, and Patriot Air and Missile Defense systems. ####

(10)Such additional functions as determined by the Ballistic Missile Defense Review. **[**Subsection

(d)was repealed by section 1645(g) of Public Law 116–283.**]** ###

(e)Cost Estimates Whenever the Director develops a cost estimate for the sensor architecture required by subsection (a), the Director shall use— ####

(1)the cost-estimating and assessment guide of the Comptroller General of the United States titled “GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide” (GAO-09-3SP), or a successor guide; or ####

(2)the most current operating and support cost-estimating guide of the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation. ###

(f)Compatibility With Efforts of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency The Director shall ensure that the sensor architecture developed under subsection

(a)is compatible with efforts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency relating to space-based sensors for missile defense. ###

(g)Report on Use of Other Authorities Not later than January 31, 2019, the Director shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the options available to the Director to use other transactional authorities pursuant to section 2371 of title 10, United States Code, to accelerate the development and deployment of the sensor architecture required by subsection (a). ###

(h)Plan Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director, in coordination with the Commander of the Air Force Space Command and the Commander of the United States Strategic Command, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a plan that includes— ####

(1)how the Director will develop the sensor architecture under subsection (a), including with respect to the estimated costs (in accordance with subsection (e)) to develop, acquire, and deploy, and the lifecycle costs to operate and sustain, the sensor architecture; ####

(2)an assessment of the maturity of critical technologies necessary to make operational such sensor architecture, and recommendations for any research and development activities to rapidly mature such technologies; ####

(3)an assessment of what capabilities such sensor architecture can contribute that other sensor architectures do not contribute; ####

(4)how the Director will leverage the use of national technical means, commercially available space and terrestrial capabilities, hosted payloads, small satellites, and other capabilities to carry out subsection (a); and ####

(5)any other matters the Director determines appropriate. ###

(i)Updated Plan Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an update to the plan under subsection (h), including with respect to the following: ####

(1)How the Director of the Missile Defense Agency, the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Secretary of the Air Force, and the Director of the Space Development Agency, will each participate in the development of the sensor architecture under subsection

(a)and the inclusion of the hypersonic and ballistic missile tracking space sensor payload as a component of such architecture pursuant to subsection (d), with respect to both prototype and operational capabilities, including how each such official will work together to avoid duplication of efforts. ####

(2)How such payload will address the requirement of the United States Strategic Command for a hypersonic and ballistic missile tracking space sensing capability. ####

(3)The estimated costs (in accordance with subsection (e)) to develop, acquire, and deploy, and the lifecycle costs to operate and sustain, the payload under subsection

(d)and include such payload in the sensor architecture developed under subsection (a). ###

(j)Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— ####

(1)the congressional defense committees; and ####

(2)the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

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