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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6275. Ms. ALSOBROOKS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:
SEC. . MODERNIZATION OF RESILIENT SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
GATEWAY ARCHITECTURE.
(a) Program Required.—The Secretary of the Army shall,
acting through the Combat Capabilities Development Command
C5ISR Center, carry out a program to develop, demonstrate,
and transition to operational use of a resilient, virtualized
satellite communications gateway capability. In carrying out
the program, the Secretary shall—
(1) demonstrate cloud-hosted satellite communications
gateway operations capable of restoring service to deployed
forces within hours of the loss or degradation of a fixed
gateway;
(2) develop a deployable, government-owned gateway
appliance providing equivalent virtualized capability for
disconnected, classified, or contested environments in which
commercial cloud connectivity is not available;
(3) demonstrate the carriage of live operational traffic at
a regional hub node, including seamless handover between the
virtualized capability and legacy gateway infrastructure;
(4) ensure that the resulting capability operates
alongside, and does not require the wholesale replacement of,
existing gateway equipment; and
(5) develop and demonstrate a deployable satellite
communications teleport solution that uses digital
intermediate frequency in combination with cloud-hosted
satellite communications services to replace reliance on
expensive, difficult-to-replace large-aperture antennas with
a distributed architecture of multiple smaller antennas, each
not greater than five meters in diameter, capable of being
rapidly deployed, reconfigured, and restored following loss
or degradation of a fixed teleport site.
(b) Milestone.—The Secretary of the Army shall structure
the program required by subsection (a) to achieve a
demonstrated operational capability carrying live Department
of Defense traffic not later than September 30, 2027.
(c) Report.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall submit
to the congressional defense committees a report on the plan
of the Secretary to carry out the program required by
subsection (b), including a description of milestones,
anticipated transition partners, and the resources required
within amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act.
(d) Funding.—The Secretary shall carry out the program
required under subsection (b) using amounts authorized to be
appropriated for the Network C3I Advanced Technology Program.