[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3408-S3409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1915. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 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 in title XVI, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. ___. PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING AN ELEMENT OF THE 
                   INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE UNITED STATES 
                   SPACE FORCE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
     Intelligence and the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Intelligence and Security, in coordination with the Secretary 
     of the Air Force and the Chief of Space Operations, shall 
     submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a plan for 
     establishing an element of the intelligence community within 
     the United States Space Force.
       (b) Elements.--The plan required by subsection (a) shall 
     address the following:
       (1) Creation of an element of the intelligence community 
     and any proposed national intelligence center related to 
     space matters.

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       (2) Identification of the documents that will establish the 
     element and center.
       (3) The authorities, personnel, resources, and physical 
     infrastructure required from the National Intelligence 
     Program and the Military Intelligence Program.
       (4) The effects on the Air Force element of the 
     intelligence community and the National Air and Space 
     Intelligence Center.
       (c) Definition of Appropriate Committees of Congress.--For 
     purposes of this section, the term ``appropriate committees 
     of Congress'' means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee 
     on Intelligence, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select 
     Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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