S.Amdt. 2407

SA 2407. Mr. UDALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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. ____. NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE FUTURE COMMERCIAL
SOURCES OF SATELLITE IMAGERY.

(a) Findings.--The Senate finds the following:
(1) The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is moving
forward with acquiring commercial satellite imagery following
the end of the decade-long EnhancedView contract, set to end
at the end of fiscal year 2020.
(2) The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office
expects to continue a program of open competition likely
leading to contracts with multiple awardees.
(3) The Office continues to be responsive to the
requirements of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
(NGA) and the broader Department of Defense geospatial-
intelligence (GEOINT) user community, including the combatant
commands (COCOMs), functional commands, and other key
elements of the Armed Forces, including fulfilling the
geospatial-intelligence requirements of the user community to
the greatest extent.
(4) The Office is working proactively with industry to
apply commercial solutions to known intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance gaps as much as possible.
(b) Briefing Required.--Not later than 90 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the
National Reconnaissance Office shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a briefing on the plans of
the Director to support the continuation of commercial data
acquisitions.
(c) Elements.--The briefing required under subsection (b)
shall cover the following:
(1) Identification of new commercial providers or new
commercial data sets and solutions.
(2) Plans for transitioning providers from pilot programs
to operational contracts.
(3) How user needs previously met by the EnhancedView
contract will be met or exceeded by follow-on contracts.
(4) On-ramps for new capabilities responsive to additional
user needs.
(d) Definition of Appropriate Committees of Congress.--In
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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