- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 6426. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO 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 XV, insert the following:
SEC. __. SPACE CONTROL AND SPACE SUPERIORITY READINESS.
(a) Findings.—Congress finds the following:
(1) The space domain is critical to deterrence and
warfighting.
(2) The United States must maintain the ability to achieve
space control in a conflict with the People's Republic of
China.
(b) Wargaming, Modeling, and Simulation.—The Secretary of
Defense shall expand the capacity of the Space Force to
conduct wargaming, modeling, and simulation of peer conflict
scenarios in the space domain.
(c) Training.—The Secretary of Defense shall develop
training programs for space operators focused on tactics,
techniques, and procedures necessary for space control
operations.
(d) Report.—
(1) In general.—Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to Congress a report on—
(A) Chinese commercial space capabilities; and
(B) the potential military applications of such
capabilities.
(2) Form.—The report required by paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in unclassified form.