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 113 STAT. 814 PUBLIC LAW 106-65—OCT. 5, 1999 (b) COMPOSITION.—The Commission shall be composed of 13 members appointed as follows: (1) Four members shall be appointed by the chairman of the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate. (2) Four members shall be appointed by the chairman of the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. (3) Three members shall be appointed jointly by the ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. (4) Two members shall be appointed by the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of Central Intelligence. (c) QUALIFICATIONS. —Members of the Commission shall be appointed from among private citizens of the United States who have knowledge and expertise in the areas of national security space policy, programs, organizations, and future national security concepts. (d) CHAIRMAN. —The chairman of the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, after consultation with the chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives and the ranking minority members of the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall designate one of the members of the Commission to serve as chairman of the Commission. (e) PERIOD OF APPOINTMENT; VACANCIES. —Members shall be appointed for the life of the Commission. Any vacancy in the Commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. (f) SECURITY CLEARANCES.— All members of the Commission shall hold appropriate security clearances. Deadlines. (g) INITIAL ORGANIZATION REQUIREMENTS. —(1) All appointments to the Commission shall be made not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) The Commission shall convene its first meeting not later than 60 days after the date as of which all members of the Commission have been appointed, but not earlier than October 15, 1999. SEC. 1622. DUTIES OF COMMISSION. (a) ASSESSMENT OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION.—The Commission shall, concerning changes to be implemented over the near-term, mediumterm, and long-term that would strengthen United States national security, assess the following: (1) The manner in which military space assets may be exploited to provide support for United States military operations. (2) The current interagency coordination process regarding the operation of national security space assets, including identification of interoperability and communications issues. (3) The relationship between the intelligence and nonintelligence aspects of national security space (so-called "white space" and "black space"), and the potential costs and benefits of a partial or complete merger of the programs, projects, or activities that are differentiated by those two aspects.

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