S.Amdt. 5954

1. Adds SEC. ___. ASSESSMENT OF TEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND PRIORITIES RELATED TO HYPERSONIC CAPABILITIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES AND HYPERSONIC TEST STRATEGY at the appropriate place in title II

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   Inserted: SEC. ___. ASSESSMENT OF TEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND PRIORITIES RELATED TO HYPERSONIC CAPABILITIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES AND HYPERSONIC TEST STRATEGY.

   Inserted: (a) Assessment.--The Secretary of Defense shall assess the capacity of the Department of Defense to test, evaluate, and qualify hypersonic capabilities and related technologies.

   Inserted: (b) Requirements.--The assessment under subsection (a) shall cover the following:

   Inserted: (1) Facilities within the Major Range and Test Facility Base identified pursuant to section 225 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81).

   Inserted: (2) The capability of each facility to simulate various individual and coupled hypersonic conditions in order to accurately simulate a realistic flight-like environment with all relevant aero thermochemical conditions.

   Inserted: (3) An analysis of the test frequency, scheduling lead time, test cost, and capacity of each facility related to testing technologies related to hypersonic flight.

   Inserted: (4) A review of contractor-owned, commercial test flight, and orbital re-entry capsule testbeds that could enhance efforts to test flight vehicles in all phases of hypersonic flight, and other technologies including sensors, communications, thermal protective shields, optical windows, navigation, and environmental sensors.

   Inserted: (c) Strategy.--

   Inserted: (1) In general.--Based upon the assessment required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees, in coordination with hypersonic program management offices, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Laboratory, and the Test Resource Management Center, a strategy on--

   Inserted: (A) how the Department will prioritize Government-owned test facilities and ranges for evaluation of hypersonic technologies, and

   Inserted: (B) to the maximum extent practicable, where the Department should use contractor-owned, commercial flight, and re-entry test capabilities to fill existing testing requirement gaps where they exist to enhance and accelerate flight qualification of critical hypersonic technologies.

   Inserted: (2) Elements.--The strategy cover the following:

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   Inserted: (A) Resources needed to improve the frequency and capacity of hypersonic technologies at ground based-facilities and flight test ranges.

   Inserted: (B) Investments that can be made to incorporate contractor-owned, commercial flight and orbital re-entry capsule testbeds into the overall Department of Defense hypersonic test infrastructure.

   Inserted: (C) Environmental conditions, testing sizes, and duration required for flight qualification of both hypersonic cruise and hypersonic boost-glide technologies.

   Inserted: (d) Major Range and Test Facility Base.--In this section, the term "Major Range and Test Facility Base" has the meaning given that term in section 196(i) of title 10, United States Code.

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   At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

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