OVERSIGHT OF ACQUISITION FOR DEFENSE SPACE PROGRAMS.

SEC. 911. OVERSIGHT OF ACQUISITION FOR DEFENSE SPACE PROGRAMS. (a) In General.—The Secretary of Defense shall provide for oversight of acquisition for defense space programs through appropriate organizations of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. (b) Report on Oversight.—(1) Not later than March 15, 2003, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a detailed plan on how the Office of the Secretary of Defense shall provide oversight of acquisition for defense space programs. (2) The plan shall set forth the following: (A) The organizations in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Joint Staff organizations, to be involved in oversight of acquisition for defense space programs. (B) The process for the review of acquisition for defense space programs by the organizations specified under subparagraph (A). (C) The process for the provision by such organizations of technical, programmatic, scheduling, and budgetary oversight of acquisition for defense space programs. (D) The process for the development of independent cost estimates for acquisition for defense space programs, including the organization responsible for developing such cost estimates and when such cost estimates shall be required. (E) The process by which the military departments, Defense Agencies, and organizations in the Office of the Secretary of Defense develop and coordinate the budgets for acquisition for defense space programs. (F) The process for the resolution of conflicts among the Department of Defense elements referred to in subparagraphs (A) and (E) regarding acquisition for defense space programs. (c) Defense Space Program Defined.—In this section, the term “defense space program” means a program of the Department of Defense that— (1) is included in the “virtual major force program” for space activities that was established by the Secretary of Defense and was to have been submitted with the 2003 fiscal year budget for the Department of Defense; or (2) after the date of the enactment of this Act, is included in a virtual major force program for space categories or in a major force program for space activities established after such date.