RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENT. TEST. AND EVALUATION OBJECTIVES FOR SD1 PROGRAM ELEMENTS.

SEC. 236. RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENT. TEST. AND EVALUATION OBJECTIVES FOR SD1 PROGRAM ELEMENTS. (a) Limited Defense System Program Element.—The Limited Defense System program element shall include programs, projects, and activities (and supporting programs, projects, and activities) which have as a primary objective the development of systems, components, and architectures for a deployable anti-ballistic missile system as described in section 232(a)(1) capable of providing a highly effective defense of the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third 105 STAT. 1324World attacks, but below a threshold that would bring into question strategic stability. Such activities shall include those activities necessary to develop and test systems, components, and architectures capable of deployment by fiscal year 1996 as part of an ABM Treaty-compliant initial site defensive system. For purposes of planning, evaluation, design, and effectiveness studies, such programs, projects, and activities may take into consideration both the current limitations of the ABM Treaty and modest changes to its numerical limitations and its limitations on the use of space-based sensors. (b) Theater Missile Defenses Program Element.—The Theater Missile Defenses program element shall include programs, projects, and activities (including those associated before the date of the enactment of this Act with the Tactical Missile Defense Initiative) that have as primary objectives either of the following: (1) The development of deployable and rapidly relocatable advanced theater missile defenses capable of defending forward-deployed and expeditionary elements of the Armed Forces of the United States, to be carried out with the objective of selecting and deploying more capable theater missile defense systems by the mid-1990s. (2) Cooperation with friendly and allied nations in the development of theater defenses against tactical or theater ballistic missiles. (c) Space-Based Interceptors Program Element.—The Space-Based Interceptors program element shall include programs, projects, and activities (and supporting programs, projects, and activities) that have as a primary objective the conduct of research on space-based kinetic-kill interceptors and associated sensors that could provide an overlay to ground-based anti-ballistic missile interceptors. (d) Other Follow-on Systems Program Element.—The Other Follow-On Systems program element shall include programs, projects, and activities that have as a primary objective the development of technologies capable of supporting systems, components, and architectures that could produce highly effective defenses for the future. (e) Research and Support Activities Program Element.—The Research and Support Activities program element shall include programs, projects, and activities that have as primary objectives the following: (1) The provision of basic research and technical, engineering, and managerial support to the programs, projects, and activities within the program elements referred to in subsection (a) through (d). (2) Innovative science and technology projects. (3) The provision of necessary test ana evaluation services other than those required for a specific program element. (4) Program management.