S.Amdt. 2292

SA 2292. Mr. LEE 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

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year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. REPORT ON FACILITIES FOR COMMANDING, CONTROLLING,
AND DISSEMINATING DATA FOR SATELLITE
CONSTELLATIONS.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a
report on readily available commercial and government
facilities for commanding, controlling, and disseminating
data for satellite constellations, which shall include--
(1) the cost, schedule, deployment, rapid prototyping, and
testing of new space technologies for small satellite
programs;
(2) a description of potential effects based on the finite
number of such facilities that are agile, maintainable,
accredited at the correct classification, and located within
reasonable proximity to manufacturer and researcher
facilities; and
(3) a description of the costs and benefits of increasing
the number of such facilities.
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