S.Amdt. 561

SA 561. Mr. HATCH 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:

SEC. ___. ROBOTIC SERVICING OF GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ACCOUNTABILITY MATRICES.

(a) Submission of Matrices.--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 the matrices
described in subsection (b) relating to the Robotic Servicing
of Geosynchronous Satellites program.
(b) Matrices Described.--The matrices described in this
subsection are the following:
(1) Development goals.--A matrix that identifies, in six-
month increments, key milestones, development events, and
specific performance goals for the Robotic Servicing of
Geosynchronous Satellites program, which shall be subdivided,
at a minimum, according to the following:
(A) Technology readiness levels of major components and key
demonstration events.
(B) Design maturity.
(C) Software maturity.
(D) Manufacturing readiness levels for critical
manufacturing operations and key demonstration events.
(E) Manufacturing operations.
(F) System verification and key flight test events.
(G) Reliability.
(2) Total cost.--A matrix expressing, in six-month
increments, the total cost to the Department of Defense and
all relevant United States Government agencies cost position
for the payload, operations software, payload integration,
and launch for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous
Satellites program.
(3) Spacecraft cots.--A matrix expressing, in six-month
increments, the total cost for Robotic Servicing of
Geosynchronous Satellites program spacecraft and relevant
subsystem completion, which shall be phased over the entire
development period and subdivided according to the costs of
the following:
(A) Spacecraft.
(B) Payload.
(C) Mission systems.
(D) Vehicle software.
(E) Systems engineering.
(F) Program management.
(G) System test and evaluation.
(H) Support and training systems.
(I) Contract fee.
(J) Engineering changes.
(K) Direct mission support.
(L) Launch.
(M) Government testing.
(c) Semiannual Update of Matrices.--
(1) In general.--The Director shall submit to the
congressional defense committees and the Comptroller General
of the United States updates to the matrices described in
subsection (b)--
(A) not later than 180 days after the date on which the
Director submits the matrices required by subsection (a);
(B) 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 2020 and each fiscal year
thereafter; and
(C) not later than 180 days after each such submission.
(2) Elements.--Each update submitted under paragraph (1)
shall detail progress made toward the goals identified in the
matrix described in subsection (b)(1) and provide updated
cost estimates.
(3) Treatment of initial matrices as baseline.--The
matrices submitted pursuant to subsection (a) shall be
treated as the baseline for the full research, development,
test, and evaluation of the Robotic Servicing of
Geosynchronous Satellites program and through its launch and
demonstration for purposes of the updates submitted pursuant
to paragraph (1).
(d) 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 of the United States
receives an update to a matrix under subsection (c)(1), the
Comptroller General shall review the sufficiency of the
matrix and submit to the congressional defense committees an
assessment of the matrix and an identification of cost,
schedule, or performance trends in the matrix.
(e) Secretary of Defense Approval.--Following the
demonstration of the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous
Satellites spacecraft and its transition to a commercial
partner of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the
Secretary of Defense shall approve each commercial operation
of the spacecraft after--
(1) taking into account--
(A) available fuel for possible national security mission
requirements;
(B) orbitology relative to possible national security
mission requirements; and
(C) compliance with the Presidential Decision Directive on
National Space Policy; and
(2) certifying to the congressional defense committees
that--
(A) any commercial use does not conflict with possible
national security requirements; and
(B) the requirements of this subsection have been met.
(f) Secretary of Defense Study.--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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