[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2023 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2023

To provide a schedule for production of elements for a national missile 
                            defense system.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 1999

Mr. McIntosh (for himself, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. English, Mr. 
 Tancredo, Mr. Bliley, Mrs. Chenoweth, Mr. Souder, Mr. Istook, and Mr. 
  Sessions) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide a schedule for production of elements for a national missile 
                            defense system.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``American People Protection Act of 
1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The United States possesses various technologies that 
        are inherently useful for defending against ballistic missiles.
            (2) The executive branch has heretofore managed the 
        development of these technologies in ways that have delayed the 
        availability of missile defense for the United States while 
        raising the cost and reducing the usefulness of individual 
        devices.

SEC. 3. DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE.

    (a) Prototype for Navy Theater Wide System.--The Secretary of 
Defense, acting through the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense 
Organization, shall produce before or during the year 2001 a prototype 
interceptor missile for the Navy Theater Wide system, with an 
interceptor velocity of 4.5 kilometers per second or greater. The 
Theater Wide system shall be designed--
            (1) so that the system's interceptor missiles each have the 
        capability to receive information from the Space-Based Infrared 
        Sensors (SBIRS)-low satellite network, allowing them to proceed 
        to terminal homing; and
            (2) so as to operate with systems that substitute for the 
        radar from which the interceptor is launched.
    (b) Production of Initial SBIRS-Low Satellite.--The Secretary of 
Defense, acting through the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense 
Organization, shall produce before or during the year 2002 the first 
satellite of the Space-Based Infrared Sensors (SBIRS)-low system. That 
satellite shall include--
            (1) a long-wave infrared sensor for viewing the coldest 
        warheads; and
            (2) software capable of communicating with individual 
        interceptors.
    (c) Space-Based Laser In-Flight Experiment.--The Secretary of 
Defense, acting through the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense 
Organization, shall conduct before or during the year 2003 an in-flight 
experiment of the Space-Based laser.
    (d) Report to Congress.--Not later than 45 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, acting through the 
Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, shall submit to 
Congress a report describing the specific funding required, and any 
regulatory relief required, to carry out each of subsections (a), (b), 
and (c) within the time period stated in that subsection.
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