[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S3330]
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  SA 6125. Mr. SULLIVAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2027 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 XV, add the following:

     SEC. 1510A. ACQUISITION OF SPACE-BASED TACTICAL DATA 
                   CAPABILITY.

       (a) Finding.--Congress finds that robust competition in the 
     space industrial base is essential to ensuring United States 
     space superiority and the ability of the Space Force to 
     provide national security mission-critical space warfighting 
     systems and operations across the joint force.
       (b) Requirement to Maximize Competition.--Chapter 135 of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new section:

     ``Sec. 2279e. Contracting for space-based functional data 
       capability

       ``The head of an agency shall, to the maximum extent 
     practicable, ensure that--
       ``(1) space acquisitions employ procedures that maximize 
     competition;
       ``(2) mission-critical national security space-based 
     systems that deliver space-based tactical data within a 
     program and across the armed forces shall, to the greatest 
     extent practicable, be procured from an open competition 
     allowing for competition between multiple vendors, and the 
     products of such vendors shall comply with interfaces and 
     standards that maximize resilience and interoperability with 
     Department of Defense systems; and
       ``(3) the launch services for such systems are procured 
     through the fastest and most efficient contract available, 
     including commercial delivery-in-orbit launch service 
     agreements.''.
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