A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space, and for other purposes.

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 1771 To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JUNE 11, 2019 Mr. CRUZ introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR 3 SPACE. 4 (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF POSITION.—Section 138(b) 5 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at 6 the end the following new paragraph: 7 ‘‘(5) One of the Assistant Secretaries is the Assistant 8 Secretary of Defense for Space. The Assistant Secretary 9 shall have as the Assistant Secretary’s principal duty the 10 VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:33 Jun 13, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1771.IS S1771 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •S 1771 IS overall supervision (including oversight of policy and re- 1 sources) of space activities of the Department of Defense. 2 The Assistant Secretary is the principal civilian adviser 3 to the Secretary of Defense on space operations and space 4 conflict matters and (after the Secretary and the Deputy 5 Secretary of Defense) is the principal space official within 6 the senior management of the Department of Defense. 7 Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Sec- 8 retary, the Assistant Secretary shall do the following: 9 ‘‘(A) Exercise authority, direction, and control 10 of all space administrative matters relating to the 11 organization, training, and equipping of space 12 forces. 13 ‘‘(B) Assist the Secretary in the development 14 and supervision of policy, program planning and exe- 15 cution, and allocation and use of resources for the 16 activities of the Department of Defense for the fol- 17 lowing: 18 ‘‘(i) Space operations, defending national 19 security assets in space, and the other space ac- 20 tivities of the Department. 21 ‘‘(ii) Integration of the activities of the De- 22 partment to most efficiently and effectively pro- 23 vide for space-related activities. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:33 Jun 13, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1771.IS S1771 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •S 1771 IS ‘‘(C) Perform such additional duties as the Sec- 1 retary may prescribe.’’. 2 (b) PLAN ON ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR DEFENSE 3 SPACE RESOURCES.— 4 (1) PLAN REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 5 after the date of the appointment, by and with the 6 advice and consent of the Senate, of the first Assist- 7 ant Secretary of Defense for Space appointed after 8 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant 9 Secretary of Defense for Space shall submit to the 10 congressional defense committees a plan to establish 11 a separate, alternative acquisition system for defense 12 space resources, including for acquisitions with re- 13 spect to space vehicles, ground segments relating to 14 such vehicles, and satellite terminals. 15 (2) SCOPE.—The plan required by paragraph 16 (1) shall cover acquisitions of defense space re- 17 sources for the Department of Defense, other than 18 resources for the National Reconnaissance Office 19 and other elements of the Department that are ele- 20 ments of the intelligence community (as defined in 21 section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 22 U.S.C. 3003)). 23 (3) ELEMENTS.—The plan required by para- 24 graph (1) shall include recommendations on whether 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:33 Jun 13, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1771.IS S1771 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 4 •S 1771 IS the alternative acquisition system covered by the 1 plan should use the Joint Capabilities Integration 2 and Development System process or another require- 3 ments process that is developed by the Assistant 4 Secretary for purposes of the plan. 5 (4) CONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES 6 DEFINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘congres- 7 sional defense committees’’ has the meaning given 8 that term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United 9 States Code. 10 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 06:33 Jun 13, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S1771.IS S1771 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS