text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Strategic Deterrent Sustainment Act 
  of 2007''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
  
      Congress makes the following findings:
              (1) The strategic forces of the United States remain a 
          cornerstone of United States national security.
              (2) The 2001 Nuclear Posture Review states that it is the 
          current policy of the United States that intercontinental 
          ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic 
          missiles, and long-range nuclear-armed bombers play a critical 
          role in the defense capabilities of the United States, its 
          allies, and friends.
              (3) The dispersed and alert Minuteman III intercontinental 
          ballistic missile system provides the most responsive, 
          stabilizing, and cost-effective strategic force.
              (4) Section 139 of the John Warner National Defense 
          Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 120 
          Stat. 2114) requires the Secretary of the Air Force to 
          modernize Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles in 
          the United States inventory so as to maintain a sufficient 
          supply of launch test assets and spares to sustain the deployed 
          force of such missiles through 2030.
              (5) The modernization program for the Minuteman III 
          intercontinental ballistic missile is nearing completion. Once 
          that program is complete, there will be no program to sustain 
          the capability of the United States industrial base to 
          modernize or replace the intercontinental ballistic missiles 
          that constitute the sole land-based strategic deterrent system 
          of the United States.
              (6) As an example, motor production for the Minuteman III 
          Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP) is currently scheduled to 
          end in fiscal year 2009. Once the PRP program ends, the 
          capacity of the United States industrial base to respond to 
          matters arising from the aging and obsolescence of Minuteman 
          III intercontinental ballistic missiles will be extremely 
          diminished, decades-worth of critical program knowledge may be 
          lost, and the current design of the Minuteman III 
          intercontinental ballistic missile is likely to no longer be 
          reproducible.
  
  SEC. 3. REPORT ON CAPABILITIES FOR SUSTAINMENT OF THE MINUTEMAN III 
                INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE.
  
      (a) Report Required.--Not later than March 1, 2008, the Secretary 
  of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a 
  report on the capability of the United States industrial base to 
  achieve each of the following:
              (1) To maintain, modernize, and sustain the Minuteman III 
          intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system until at least 
          2030.
              (2) To replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic 
          missile with a follow-on land-based strategic deterrent system 
          after 2030.
      (b) Elements.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall include 
  the following:
              (1) A description of any current plans for extending the 
          Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system after 
          the period from 2020 to 2030, including plans for testing 
          sufficient to account for any aging and obsolescence found in 
          the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile during the 
          remaining life of the system, and an assessment of the risks 
          associated with such plans after the shutdown of associated 
          production lines.
              (2) A description of any current plans to maintain the 
          Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system after 
          2030, including an assessment of any risks associated with such 
          plans after the shutdown of associated production lines.
              (3) An explanation why the Minuteman III intercontinental 
          ballistic missile system, the only United States land-based 
          strategic deterrent system, is no longer considered to be of 
          the highest national defense urgency, as indicated by inclusion 
          of the system on the so-called ``DX-Rated Program List'' while 
          the sea-based strategic deterrent system, the Trident II D5 
          missile system, is still on the so-called ``DX-list''.
              (4) An analysis of existing commonalities between the 
          service life extension program for the Trident II D5 missile 
          system and any equivalent planned service life extension 
          program for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic 
          missile system, including an analysis of the impact on 
          materials, the supplier base, production facilities, and the 
          production workforce of extending all or part of the service 
          life extension program for the Trident II D5 missile system to 
          a service life extension program for the Minuteman III 
          intercontinental ballistic missile system.
              (5) An assessment of the adequacy of current and 
          anticipated programs, such as missile defense, space launch, 
          and prompt global strike programs, to support the industrial 
          base for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile 
          system, including an analysis of the impact on materials, the 
          supplier base, production facilities, and the production 
          workforce of extending all or part of any such program to the 
          program for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic 
          missile system.
      (c) Comptroller General Review.--Not later than 60 days after 
  submittal under subsection (a) of the report required by that 
  subsection, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit 
  to the congressional defense committees a report setting forth the 
  Comptroller General's assessment of the matters contained in the report 
  under subsection (a), including an assessment of the consistency of the 
  budget of the President for fiscal year 2009, as submitted to Congress 
  pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, with the 
  matters contained in the report under subsection (a).
      (d) Congressional Defense Committees Defined.--In this section, the 
  term ``congressional defense committees'' means--
              (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
          Appropriations of the Senate; and
              (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
          Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
target: Strategic Deterrent Sustainment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the congressional defense committees respecting the capability of the U.S. industrial base to: (1) maintain, modernize, and sustain the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system until at least 2030; and (2) replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with a follow-on land-based strategic deterrent system after 2030.
feat_title: A bill to require an assessment of the plans for the modernization and sustainment of the land-based, Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile strategic deterrent force, and for other purposes.