S.Amdt. 2138

1. Adds SEC. 922. AGREEMENTS WITH CERTAIN COMMERCIAL SPACEPORTS AND RANGE AND LAUNCH COMPLEXES at the end of subtitle B of title IX

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   In S. 1197 · Placed on Calendar Senate

   Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2014 by section 201 for the Department of Defense for research, test, development, and evaluation, Air Force, and available for the Space Protection Program (PE# 0603830F) as specified in the funding table in section 4201, $10,000,000 may not be obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense submits to the congressional defense committees a copy of the study conducted at the direction of the Deputy Secretary of Defense on the counter space strategy of the Department of Defense that resulted in significant revisions to that strategy by the Department.

   Inserted: SEC. 922. AGREEMENTS WITH CERTAIN COMMERCIAL SPACEPORTS AND RANGE AND LAUNCH COMPLEXES.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--Section 2276 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--

   Inserted: (1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and

   Inserted: (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new subsection (e):

   Inserted: "(e) Agreements With Commercial Spaceports and Range and Launch Complexes.--

   Inserted: "(1) In general.--The Secretary shall--

   Inserted: "(A) seek to enter into an agreement under subsection (b) with each commercial spaceport or range and launch complex described in paragraph (2); and

   Inserted: "(B) provide funding to each such commercial spaceport or range and launch complex in accordance with this section.

   Inserted: "(2) Commercial spaceports and range and launch complexes described.--A commercial spaceport or range and launch complex described in this paragraph is a commercial spaceport or range and launch complex that--

   Inserted: "(A) is licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration;

   Inserted: "(B) provides orbital launch capabilities in support of national security space programs; and

   Inserted: "(C) receives funding from amounts made available for space launch operations for the Air Force Space Command of the Department of Defense.".

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   Inserted: (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (d)(3) of such section is amended by inserting "and as provided in subsection (e)" after "subsection (b)".

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   At the end of subtitle B of title IX, add the following:

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