S.Amdt. 517

SA 517. Mr. BENNET (for himself and Mr. Gardner) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him 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 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

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SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NATIONAL SPACE DEFENSE CENTER.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Space is a warfighting domain.
(2) Deterrence of adversaries of the United States,
preserving the space domain, and defending against threats to
space systems requires coordination across the Department of
Defense, including the military departments, and the
intelligence community.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the National Space Defense Center is critical to
defending and securing the space domain in order to protect
all United States assets in space;
(2) integration between the intelligence community and the
Department of Defense within the National Space Defense
Center is essential to detecting, assessing, and reacting to
evolving space threats; and
(3) the Department of Defense, including the military
departments, and the elements of the intelligence community
should seek ways to bolster integration with respect to space
threats through work at the National Space Defense Center.
(c) Intelligence Community Defined.--In this section, the
term ``intelligence community'' has the meaning given that
term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50
U.S.C. 3003(4)).
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