S.Amdt. 860

SA 860. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. LEVERAGING COMMERCIAL SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING.

(a) In General.--In acquiring geospatial-intelligence, the
Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Director of
the National Reconnaissance Office and the Director of the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, shall leverage, to
the maximum extent practicable, the capabilities of United
States industry, including through the use of commercial
geospatial-intelligence services and acquisition of
commercial satellite imagery.
(b) Obtaining Future Geospatial-intelligence Data.--The
Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, as part of an
analysis of alternatives for the future acquisition of space
systems for geospatial-intelligence, shall--
(1) consider whether there is a suitable, cost-effective,
commercial capability available that can meet any or all of
the geospatial-intelligence requirements of the Department
and the intelligence community;
(2) if a suitable, cost-effective, commercial capability is
available as described in paragraph (1), determine whether it
is in the national interest to develop a governmental space
system for geospatial intelligence; and

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(3) include, as part of the established acquisition
reporting requirements to the appropriate committees of
Congress, any determination made under paragraphs (1) and
(2).
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(A) the congressional defense committees;
(B) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(C) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the
House of Representatives.
(2) The term ``intelligence community'' has the meaning
given such term in section 3 of the National Security Act of
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003).
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