S.Amdt. 661

SA 661. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 end of part II of subtitle A of title XVI, add the
following:

SEC. 1617. ACCOUNTING FOR FULL INVESTMENT IN NATIONAL
SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--In awarding any contract for space launch
services for the National Security Space Launch Program, or
any successor program, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure
that the total government investment in the development and
procurement of the launch services from Launch Services
Agreements is accounted for in determining the total
evaluated contract price.

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(b) Review Required.--Prior to the award of any launch
services contract under phase 2 of the National Security
Space Launch Program, the Secretary of Defense shall
determine whether the most cost-effective method of achieving
assured access to space is--
(1) providing Federal funding to develop new launch
vehicles to compete for National Security Space Launch
contracts;
(2) providing commercial space launch providers with
funding to adopt already available commercial space launch
vehicles to compete for National Security Space Launch
contracts; or
(3) a hybrid approach that incentivizes commercial
providers to compete for launch services contracts.
(c) Report to Congress.--Before the award of any contract
under phase 2 of the National Security Space Launch program,
the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense
committees a report on the determination made under
subsection (b).
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