Text of Senate Amendment 6125

On 2026-06-24, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) delivered a floor speech titled "Text Of Senate Amendment 6125" in the Senate.

Text of Senate Amendment 6125

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 106 (Wednesday, June 24, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S3330] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] 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.''. ______