S.Amdt. 1912

SA 1912. Mr. WARNER (for himself, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. King) submitted
an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by
Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2016 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 XVI, add the following:

SEC. 1614. STRATEGY FOR COMPREHENSIVE INTERAGENCY REVIEW OF
THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECURITY OVERHEAD
SATELLITE ARCHITECTURE.

(a) Requirement for Strategy.--The Director of National
Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall develop a strategy, with
milestones and benchmarks, to ensure that there is a
comprehensive interagency review of policies and practices
for planning and acquiring national security satellite
systems and architectures, including capabilities of
commercial systems and partner countries, consistent with the
National Space Policy issued on June 28, 2010, and section
1601 of this Act. Such strategy shall, where applicable,
account for the unique missions and authorities vested in the
Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
(b) Elements.--The strategy required by subsection (a)
shall ensure that the United States national security
overhead satellite architecture--
(1) meets the needs of the United States in peace time and
is resilient in war time;
(2) responsibly stewards the taxpayers' dollars;
(3) accurately takes into account cost and performance
tradeoffs;
(4) meets realistic requirements;
(5) produces excellence, innovation, competition, and a
robust industrial base;
(6) aims to produce innovative satellite systems in less
than 5 years that are able to leverage common, standardized
design elements and commercially available technologies;
(7) takes advantage of rapid advances in commercial
technology, innovation, and commercial-like acquisition
practices;
(8) is open to innovative concepts such as distributed,
disaggregated architectures that could allow for better
resiliency, reconstitution, replenishment, and rapid
technological refresh; and
(9) emphasizes deterrence and recognizes the importance of
offensive and defensive space control capabilities.
(c) Report on Strategy.--Not later than February 28, 2016,
the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of
Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall
report to the congressional defense committees, the Select
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives on the strategy required by subsection (a).
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