NEW HORIZON Act

This bill would require the Secretary of Defense, working through the Defense Innovation Unit, to start a pilot program within 1 year to test commercially available orbital data center services, meaning computing, data storage, and networking done in space. The program would assess military usefulness, how the services fit with existing Department of Defense systems, and how to protect them from cyber and other threats. Services handling sensitive or classified information would have to meet listed cybersecurity and resilience requirements. The Secretary would brief the congressional defense committees by December 31, 2028, and the pilot program's authority would end 5 years after the bill becomes law.

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Sponsors

• Ted Cruz Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors