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 113 STAT. 810 PUBLIC LAW 106-65—OCT. 5, 1999 Deadline. (1) The Space Control Technology Plan of 1999 of the Department of Defense. (2) The Long Range Plan of March 1998 of the United States Space Command. (3) The Strategic Master Plan of December 1997 of the Air Force Space Command. (f) REPORT.— Not later than April 15, 2000, the Secretary shall submit a report on the space technology guide to the congressional defense committees. SEC. 1602. REPORT ON VULNERABILITIES OF UNITED STATES SPACE ASSETS. Not later than March 1, 2000, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report, prepared in consultation with the Director of Central Intelligence, on the current and potential vulnerabilities of United States national security and commercial space assets. The report shall be submitted in classified and unclassified form. The report shall include— (1) an assessment of the military significance of the vulnerabilities identified in the report; (2) an assessment of the significance of space debris; and (3) an assessment of the manner in which the vulnerabilities identified in the report could affect United States space launch policy and spacecraft design. SEC. 1603. REPORT ON SPACE LAUNCH FAILURES. (a) REPORT REQUIRED.— The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the President and the specified congressional committees a report on the factors involved in the three recent failures of the Titan IV space launch vehicle and the systemic and management reforms that the Secretary is implementing to minimize future failures of that vehicle and future launch systems. The report shall be submitted not later than February 15, 2000. The Secretary shall include in the report all information from the reviews of those failures conducted by the Secretary of the Air Force and launch contractors. (b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED. —The report shall include the following information: (1) An explanation for the failure of a Titan IVA laiuich vehicle on August 12, 1998, the failure of a Titan IVB launch vehicle on April 9, 1999, and the failure of a Titan IVB launch vehicle on April 30, 1999, as well as any information from civilian launches which may provide information on systemic problems in current Department of Defense launch systems, including, in addition to a detailed technical explsmation and summary of financial costs for each such failure, a one-page summary for each such failure indicating any commonality between that failure and other military or civilian launch failures. (2) A review of management and engineering responsibility for the Titan, Inertial Upper Stage, and Centaur systems, with an explanation of the respective roles of the Government and the private sector in ensuring mission success and identification of the responsible party (Government or private sector) for each major stage in production and launch of the vehicles.

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