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119th Congress · Senate bill · Last action Jun 4, 2026
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S. 4693In Committee

A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to carry out an operational pilot program under the Hybrid Space Architecture initiative to evaluate the use of commercially available orbital data center services and space-based cloud computing capabilities relevant to national security space and joint mission requirements, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX] (R-TX)1 cosponsorIntroduced Jun 4, 2026
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Introduced
Jun 4
Senate committee
Jun 4
3
Senate floor
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4
House
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5
Signed
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What happens next: Sits in committee. Needs a markup or favorable report to advance to the Senate floor.

Sponsor

Cosponsors (1)

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All Democratic.

Activity timeline

Jun 4
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Jun 4
Introduced in Senate
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All 2 recorded actions since introduction · Source: Congress.gov
Jun 4
SENATERead twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Jun 4
Introduced in Senate

All 1 cosponsor

1 Democrat · 0 Republicans
Democrats (1)

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