S.Amdt. 1028

SA 1028. Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) to
the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and

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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. 1607. ROBOTIC SERVICING OF GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

(a) Report Required.--Concurrent with the submission of the
budget of the President to Congress under section 1105(a) of
title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year 2019, the
Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
shall submit to the congressional defense committees and the
Comptroller General of the United States a report on the
Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program.
(b) Cost Estimates.--
(1) In general.--The report required by subsection (a)
shall include an estimate, in six-month increments, of the
total cost for the Department of Defense and all relevant
Federal agencies for the payload, operations software,
payload integration, launch, and spacecraft and relevant
subsystem completion under the Robotic Servicing of
Geosynchronous Satellites program.
(2) Phasing of cost estimate.--The cost estimates required
by paragraph (1) shall be phased over the entire development
period and subdivided according to the costs of the
following:
(A) The program acquisition unit cost for the program.
(B) Any cost variance or schedule variance under the
program since the contract was entered into.
(C) Any significant changes that are known, expected, or
anticipated by the program manager in--
(i) the total cost for development and procurement of the
software component of the program or subprogram;
(ii) schedule milestones for the software component of the
program or subprogram; or
(iii) expected performance for the software component of
the program or subprogram.
(c) Assessment by Comptroller General of the United
States.--Not later than the date that is 45 days after the
date on which the Comptroller General receives the report
under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall--
(1) review the sufficiency of the cost estimates required
by subsection (b); and
(2) submit to the congressional defense committees an
assessment of those estimates, including by identifying cost,
schedule, or performance trends.
(d) Notification of Commercial Operations.--Following the
demonstration of the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous
Satellites program spacecraft and its transition to a
commercial partner of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, the Secretary of Defense shall be notified of each
commercial operation of the spacecraft.
(e) Report on Technology Transfer.--Concurrent with the
submission of the budget of the President to Congress under
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for fiscal
year 2019, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on the technology
transfer of the robotic payload, operations software, and
corresponding systems of the Robotic Servicing of
Geosynchronous Satellites program to qualified satellite
manufacturers and satellite operators to increase the on-
orbit highly advanced space robotics capabilities of entities
organized under the laws of the United States and available
to the Department of Defense.
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