[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4524-S4525]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 517. Mr. BENNET (for himself and Mr. Gardner) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2810, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

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     SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NATIONAL SPACE DEFENSE CENTER.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Space is a warfighting domain.
       (2) Deterrence of adversaries of the United States, 
     preserving the space domain, and defending against threats to 
     space systems requires coordination across the Department of 
     Defense, including the military departments, and the 
     intelligence community.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the National Space Defense Center is critical to 
     defending and securing the space domain in order to protect 
     all United States assets in space;
       (2) integration between the intelligence community and the 
     Department of Defense within the National Space Defense 
     Center is essential to detecting, assessing, and reacting to 
     evolving space threats; and
       (3) the Department of Defense, including the military 
     departments, and the elements of the intelligence community 
     should seek ways to bolster integration with respect to space 
     threats through work at the National Space Defense Center.
       (c) Intelligence Community Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``intelligence community'' has the meaning given that 
     term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
     U.S.C. 3003(4)).
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