S.Amdt. 4073

SA 4073. Mr. CRAMER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 subtitle A of title XV, add the following:

SEC. ___. ACTIVE PROTECTION OF THE MAJOR RANGE AND TEST
FACILITY BASE.

(a) Authority.--The Secretary of Defense may take, and may
authorize members of the Armed Forces and officers and
civilian employees of the Department of Defense to take, such
actions described in subsection (b) as are necessary to
mitigate the threat, as determined by the Secretary, that a
space-based asset may pose to the security or operation of
the Major Range and Test Facility Base (as defined in section
196(i) of title 10, United States Code).
(b) Actions Described.--The actions described in this
subsection are the following:
(1) To detect, identify, monitor, and track a space-based
asset, without prior consent, including by means of intercept
or other access of an electronic communication used to
control the space-based asset.
(2) To disrupt the sensors of a space-based asset, without
prior consent, including by disabling, intercepting,
interfering with, or causing interference with such space-
based sensors.
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