S.Amdt. 1915

SA 1915. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 in title XVI, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING AN ELEMENT OF THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
SPACE FORCE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Director of National
Intelligence and the Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence and Security, in coordination with the Secretary
of the Air Force and the Chief of Space Operations, shall
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a plan for
establishing an element of the intelligence community within
the United States Space Force.
(b) Elements.--The plan required by subsection (a) shall
address the following:
(1) Creation of an element of the intelligence community
and any proposed national intelligence center related to
space matters.

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(2) Identification of the documents that will establish the
element and center.
(3) The authorities, personnel, resources, and physical
infrastructure required from the National Intelligence
Program and the Military Intelligence Program.
(4) The effects on the Air Force element of the
intelligence community and the National Air and Space
Intelligence Center.
(c) Definition of Appropriate Committees of Congress.--For
purposes of this section, the term ``appropriate committees
of Congress'' means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee
on Intelligence, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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