S.Amdt. 6125

SA 6125. Mr. SULLIVAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2027 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. 1510A. ACQUISITION OF SPACE-BASED TACTICAL DATA
CAPABILITY.

(a) Finding.--Congress finds that robust competition in the
space industrial base is essential to ensuring United States
space superiority and the ability of the Space Force to
provide national security mission-critical space warfighting
systems and operations across the joint force.
(b) Requirement to Maximize Competition.--Chapter 135 of
title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
the following new section:

``Sec. 2279e. Contracting for space-based functional data
capability

``The head of an agency shall, to the maximum extent
practicable, ensure that--
``(1) space acquisitions employ procedures that maximize
competition;
``(2) mission-critical national security space-based
systems that deliver space-based tactical data within a
program and across the armed forces shall, to the greatest
extent practicable, be procured from an open competition
allowing for competition between multiple vendors, and the
products of such vendors shall comply with interfaces and
standards that maximize resilience and interoperability with
Department of Defense systems; and
``(3) the launch services for such systems are procured
through the fastest and most efficient contract available,
including commercial delivery-in-orbit launch service
agreements.''.
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