1. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space (a) Establishment of position Section 138(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) One of the Assistant Secretaries is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space. The Assistant Secretary shall have as the Assistant Secretary's principal duty the overall supervision (including oversight of policy and resources) of space activities of the Department of Defense. The Assistant Secretary is the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary of Defense on space operations and space conflict matters and (after the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of Defense) is the principal space official within the senior management of the Department of Defense. Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary shall do the following: (A) Exercise authority, direction, and control of all space administrative matters relating to the organization, training, and equipping of space forces. (B) Assist the Secretary in the development and supervision of policy, program planning and execution, and allocation and use of resources for the activities of the Department of Defense for the following: (i) Space operations, defending national security assets in space, and the other space activities of the Department. (ii) Integration of the activities of the Department to most efficiently and effectively provide for space-related activities. (C) Perform such additional duties as the Secretary may prescribe. . (b) Plan on acquisition system for defense space resources (1) Plan required Not later than 90 days after the date of the appointment, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, of the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space appointed after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space shall submit to the congressional defense committees a plan to establish a separate, alternative acquisition system for defense space resources, including for