[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5826-S5827]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6325. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Portman) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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:

        On page 446, between lines 15 and 16, insert the 
     following:
       ``(c) National Space Intelligence Center.--
       ``(1) Establishment.--The Secretary of the Air Force shall 
     establish the National Space Intelligence Center within the 
     Space Force

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     to perform analysis and production of scientific and 
     technical intelligence on foreign space and counter-space 
     threat capabilities in the support of the Space Force.
       ``(2) Field operating agency.--The National Space 
     Intelligence Center shall operate as a field operating agency 
     of the Space Force.''.
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