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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6244. Ms. HASSAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle A of title XV, add the following:
SEC. 1510A. REPORT ON RISKS TO GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM AND
ASSOCIATED POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING
SERVICES.
(a) In General.—Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on
risks to the Global Positioning System and associated
positioning, navigation, and timing services.
(b) Elements.—The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A description of risks posed by a lack of access to the
Global Positioning System and associated positioning,
navigation, and timing services during a potential conflict
in which the United States involved or in the case of an
attack on a United States ally.
(2) A description of risks to United States allies from a
disruption of access to the Global Positioning System and
associated positioning, navigation, and timing services
provided by the United States.
(3) An assessment of each of the following:
(A) The capabilities of competitor countries, including the
People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Iran, and
the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to degrade or deny
United States access to the Global Positioning System and
associated positioning, navigation, and timing services
during a potential conflict with the United States or in the
case of an attack on a United States ally.
(B) Current Department of Defense efforts to develop or
procure technology or systems to provide redundant global
positioning and positioning, navigation, and timing
capabilities, including space-based and terrestrial-based
(including quantum sensing technology) efforts.
(C) The ability of the Resilient Global Positioning System
(R-GPS) program of the Space Force to achieve, not later than
10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, full
capacity to provide Global Positioning System resilience to
existing United States satellites.
(4) A framework for developing a full-scale terrestrial-
based Global Positioning System redundancy system that could
be operational not later than 15 years after the date of the
enactment of this Act.
(c) Form.—The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified
annex.
(d) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Appropriate committees of congress.—The term
“appropriate committees of Congress” means—
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee
on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland
Security of the House of Representatives.
(2) United states ally.—The term “United States ally”
means—
(A) a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization;
(B) a major non-NATO ally (as defined in section 644(q) of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2403(q))); and
(C) Taiwan.