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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 · Sec. 1608

Sec. 1608. COMMERCIAL SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS CAPABILITIES

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## SEC. 1608 COMMERCIAL SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS CAPABILITIES ###
(a)Certification Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force, without delegation, shall certify to the congressional defense committees that the Air Force is using commercial space situational awareness services. ###
(b)Limitation Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2020 for the enterprise space battle management command and control, not more than 85 percent may be obligated or expended until the date on which the Secretary of the Air Force makes the certification under subsection (a). ###
(c)Report Not later than March 1, 2020, the Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on using commercial space situational awareness services to fill the space situational awareness requirements that were not filled in the Joint Space Operations Center Mission Center. The report shall include the following: ####
(1)A description of current domestic commercial capabilities to detect and track space objects in low-Earth orbit below the 10 centimeter threshold of legacy systems. ####
(2)A description of current domestic best-in-breed commercial capabilities that can meet such requirements. ####
(3)Estimates of the timelines, milestones, and funding requirements to procure a near-term solution to meet such requirements until the development programs of the Air Force are projected to be operationally fielded. ###
(d)Commercial Space Situational Awareness Services Defined In this section, the term “commercial space situational awareness services” means commercial space situational awareness processing software and data from commercial sensors to address warfighter requirements and fill gaps in current space situational capabilities of the Air Force.
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