United States–Poland military space cooperation program

(a) Establishment The Secretary of Defense shall establish a United States-Republic of Poland Military Space Cooperation Program. (b) Purpose The purpose of the program shall be to strengthen military cooperation between the United States and the Republic of Poland in support of space-enabled military operations, resilience, and preparedness. (c) Activities The program may support the following activities: (1) Analysis and assessment of threats to military space capabilities and supporting infrastructure. (2) Development and dissemination of operational concepts, doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures, and best practices relating to resilient positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities, satellite communications, space domain awareness, and space-enabled military operations. (3) Collection, analysis, and dissemination of operational lessons learned from contemporary conflicts regarding the employment, protection, and resilience of military space capabilities. (4) Military exercises, training events, simulations, wargames, personnel exchanges, and other cooperative military activities involving personnel of the United States and the Republic of Poland. (5) Collaboration, as appropriate, with commercial entities, federally funded research and development centers, academic institutions, and other organizations on matters relating to military space operations, space resilience, satellite communications, positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities, and related emerging technologies. (6) Such other activities as the Secretary of Defense determines necessary to advance the purposes of the program. (d) Report Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report describing— (1) plans for implementation of the program; (2) anticipated contributions of the United States and the Republic of Poland; (3) opportunities to incorporate operational lessons learned from the conflict in Ukraine into military space cooperation activities under the program; and (4) any legislative or policy recommendations necessary to support the activities of the program.