[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3945]
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  SA 1912. Mr. WARNER (for himself, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. King) submitted 
an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by 
Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department 
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title XVI, add the following:

     SEC. 1614. STRATEGY FOR COMPREHENSIVE INTERAGENCY REVIEW OF 
                   THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECURITY OVERHEAD 
                   SATELLITE ARCHITECTURE.

       (a) Requirement for Strategy.--The Director of National 
     Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of 
     the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall develop a strategy, with 
     milestones and benchmarks, to ensure that there is a 
     comprehensive interagency review of policies and practices 
     for planning and acquiring national security satellite 
     systems and architectures, including capabilities of 
     commercial systems and partner countries, consistent with the 
     National Space Policy issued on June 28, 2010, and section 
     1601 of this Act. Such strategy shall, where applicable, 
     account for the unique missions and authorities vested in the 
     Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
       (b) Elements.--The strategy required by subsection (a) 
     shall ensure that the United States national security 
     overhead satellite architecture--
       (1) meets the needs of the United States in peace time and 
     is resilient in war time;
       (2) responsibly stewards the taxpayers' dollars;
       (3) accurately takes into account cost and performance 
     tradeoffs;
       (4) meets realistic requirements;
       (5) produces excellence, innovation, competition, and a 
     robust industrial base;
       (6) aims to produce innovative satellite systems in less 
     than 5 years that are able to leverage common, standardized 
     design elements and commercially available technologies;
       (7) takes advantage of rapid advances in commercial 
     technology, innovation, and commercial-like acquisition 
     practices;
       (8) is open to innovative concepts such as distributed, 
     disaggregated architectures that could allow for better 
     resiliency, reconstitution, replenishment, and rapid 
     technological refresh; and
       (9) emphasizes deterrence and recognizes the importance of 
     offensive and defensive space control capabilities.
       (c) Report on Strategy.--Not later than February 28, 2016, 
     the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of 
     Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall 
     report to the congressional defense committees, the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Permanent 
     Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
     Representatives on the strategy required by subsection (a).
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