; 10 U.S.C. 2431 note) is amended— (1) by striking (a) In general .— and inserting the following: (a) Development, testing, and deployment (1) Development ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: (2) Testing and deployment The Director shall begin on-orbit testing of a hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor no later than December 31, 2021, with full operational deployment as soon as technically feasible thereafter. (3) Waiver The Secretary of Defense may waive the deadline for testing specified in paragraph (2) if the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees a report containing— (A) the explanation why the Secretary cannot meet such deadline; (B) the technical risks and estimated cost of accelerating the program to attempt to meet such deadline; (C) an assessment of threat systems that could not be detected or tracked persistently due to waiving such deadline; and (D) a plan, including a timeline, for beginning the required testing. . (e) Report on progress (1) In general Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the progress of all efforts being made by the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force, and the Space Development Agency relating to space-based sensing and tracking capabilities for missile defense and how each of such organizations will work together to avoid duplication of efforts. (2) Form The report required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. 1674. Nonstandard acquisition processes of Missile Defense Agency (a) Sense of the Senate It is the sense of the Senate that— (1) the Department of Defense needs to provide capabilities at the speed of relevance that are more lethal, and to ensure acquisition processes fulfill the needs of members of the Armed Forces now and in the future