S.Amdt. 1271
What it does: Adds SEC. 914. PROHIBITION ON APPROVAL OF CERTAIN NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE PROGRAMS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE REASONABLE COST ESTIMATES FOR LAUNCH VEHICLES at the end of subtitle B of title IX
Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)What it changes
1 change to S. 1867 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 914. PROHIBITION ON APPROVAL OF CERTAIN NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE PROGRAMS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE REASONABLE COST ESTIMATES FOR LAUNCH VEHICLES at the end of subtitle B of title IX
Adds a sectionIn S. 1867 · Placed on Calendar Senate
(B) notifies the congressional defense committees of that determination.
Inserted: SEC. 914. PROHIBITION ON APPROVAL OF CERTAIN NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE PROGRAMS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE REASONABLE COST ESTIMATES FOR LAUNCH VEHICLES.
Inserted: (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
Inserted: (1) it should be a joint priority objective of the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence to reduce the overall cost of space launch without jeopardizing the enviable recent record of successful national security space launches by the United States;
Inserted: (2) a variety of tools should be considered to achieve that objective, including the introduction of competition for contracts relating to space launch activities, the leveraging of lot purchases and economies of scale, and the provision of cost-reduction incentives relating to such contracts; and
Inserted: (3) the document entitled "Coordinated Strategy Among the United States Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for New Entrant Launch Vehicle Certification", dated October 12, 2011, sets forth an appropriate mechanism to support competition relating to space launch activities while maintaining the requirements of mission assurance.
Inserted: (b) Prohibition.--The Secretary of Defense may not approve the system development and demonstration, or the production and deployment, of a national security space program requiring a space launch unless the cost estimate and the budget submitted to Congress for the program includes a reasonable cost estimate for a launch vehicle that, at the time the cost estimate is established, is certified to meet the risk classification for the payload of the program, as defined in the document referred to in subsection (a)(3).
Original wording
At the end of subtitle B of title IX, add the following:
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As printed
SA 1271. Mr. SHELBY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1867, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 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 B of title IX, add the following:
SEC. 914. PROHIBITION ON APPROVAL OF CERTAIN NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE PROGRAMS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE REASONABLE COST ESTIMATES FOR LAUNCH VEHICLES.
(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) it should be a joint priority objective of the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence to reduce the overall cost of space launch without jeopardizing the enviable recent record of successful national security space launches by the United States;
(2) a variety of tools should be considered to achieve that objective, including the introduction of competition for contracts relating to space launch activities, the leveraging of lot purchases and economies of scale, and the provision of cost-reduction incentives relating to such contracts; and
(3) the document entitled “Coordinated Strategy Among the United States Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for New Entrant Launch Vehicle Certification”, dated October 12, 2011, sets forth an appropriate mechanism to support competition relating to space launch activities while maintaining the requirements of mission assurance.
(b) Prohibition.--The Secretary of Defense may not approve the system development and demonstration, or the production and deployment, of a national security space program requiring a space launch unless the cost estimate and the budget submitted to Congress for the program includes a reasonable cost estimate for a launch vehicle that, at the time the cost estimate is established, is certified to meet the risk classification for the payload of the program, as defined in the document referred to in subsection (a)(3).
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Senate amendment submitted
November 18, 2011