[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5681-S5682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1028. Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) 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

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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. 1607. ROBOTIC SERVICING OF GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES 
                   REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Report Required.--Concurrent with the submission of the 
     budget of the President to Congress under section 1105(a) of 
     title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year 2019, the 
     Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 
     shall submit to the congressional defense committees and the 
     Comptroller General of the United States a report on the 
     Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program.
       (b) Cost Estimates.--
       (1) In general.--The report required by subsection (a) 
     shall include an estimate, in six-month increments, of the 
     total cost for the Department of Defense and all relevant 
     Federal agencies for the payload, operations software, 
     payload integration, launch, and spacecraft and relevant 
     subsystem completion under the Robotic Servicing of 
     Geosynchronous Satellites program.
       (2) Phasing of cost estimate.--The cost estimates required 
     by paragraph (1) shall be phased over the entire development 
     period and subdivided according to the costs of the 
     following:
       (A) The program acquisition unit cost for the program.
       (B) Any cost variance or schedule variance under the 
     program since the contract was entered into.
       (C) Any significant changes that are known, expected, or 
     anticipated by the program manager in--
       (i) the total cost for development and procurement of the 
     software component of the program or subprogram;
       (ii) schedule milestones for the software component of the 
     program or subprogram; or
       (iii) expected performance for the software component of 
     the program or subprogram.
       (c) Assessment by Comptroller General of the United 
     States.--Not later than the date that is 45 days after the 
     date on which the Comptroller General receives the report 
     under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall--
       (1) review the sufficiency of the cost estimates required 
     by subsection (b); and
       (2) submit to the congressional defense committees an 
     assessment of those estimates, including by identifying cost, 
     schedule, or performance trends.
       (d) Notification of Commercial Operations.--Following the 
     demonstration of the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous 
     Satellites program spacecraft and its transition to a 
     commercial partner of the Defense Advanced Research Projects 
     Agency, the Secretary of Defense shall be notified of each 
     commercial operation of the spacecraft.
       (e) Report on Technology Transfer.--Concurrent with the 
     submission of the budget of the President to Congress under 
     section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for fiscal 
     year 2019, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on the technology 
     transfer of the robotic payload, operations software, and 
     corresponding systems of the Robotic Servicing of 
     Geosynchronous Satellites program to qualified satellite 
     manufacturers and satellite operators to increase the on-
     orbit highly advanced space robotics capabilities of entities 
     organized under the laws of the United States and available 
     to the Department of Defense.
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