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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6327. Ms. ROSEN (for herself, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Cornyn) 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 B of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1218. REPORT ON INTERNET FREEDOM IN IRAN.
(a) In General.—Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of the Act, the Secretary of State, in
consultation with the Federal Communications Commission and
the Department of the Treasury, shall prepare and submit to
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives
a report that updates and supplements the report required
under section 5124 of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2025 (22 U.S.C. 8754a).
(b) Additional Matters To Be Included.—Updates to the
strategy required in section 5124 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (22 U.S.C. 8754a),
shall also include the following:
(1) An assessment of the feasibility of using direct-to-
cell wireless communications technologies to expand internet
access for the people of Iran, including technical,
regulatory, and security considerations.
(2) An analysis of how drone-based platforms, signal
jamming technologies, and related countermeasures could
impact the feasibility, security, economics, and resilience
of such direct-to-cell wireless communications.
(3) A survey of terrestrial and non-terrestrial
telecommunications service providers currently active in
Iran, including—
(A) whether such providers are state-owned or state-
controlled;
(B) the extent of foreign participation or investment in
such providers; and
(C) the implications of such ownership and control for
communications freedom and censorship.
(4) Any other relevant information to assess the
opportunities and risks associated with terrestrial and non-
terrestrial communications technologies in Iran.
(5) An analysis of the effectiveness of low-Earth-orbit
(LEO) satellite internet constellation systems in providing
accessible internet to Iranians during the January 2026
Iranian protests, the needs of Iranian civil society in being
able to ensure reliable access to such systems when the
Government of Iran cuts access to the internet, existing
capabilities of LEO satellite internet constellation systems
in circumventing jamming, the per user cost of providing LEO
satellite internet constellation systems, and recommendations
for technology improvements to LEO satellite internet
constellation systems to be able to resist jamming
technologies to ensure the Iranian people's access to the
global internet. This analysis should also include an
assessment of physical and digital security vulnerabilities
for LEO satellite internet users in Iran and recommendations
for how to mitigate those concerns. The analysis and
assessment shall have a classified annex.
(6) An assessment of the feasibility of including readily
available commercial “off-the-shelf” technologies to be
eligible for the grant program outlined in section 5124 of
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025
(22 U.S.C. 8754a) that—
(A) could facilitate unrestricted access to the global
internet in Iran;
(B) could be integrated into already available commercial
technologies that civil society and the people of Iran have
access to;
(C) could reasonably shield the personal data of users from
the Government of Iran; and
(D) has some degree of resilience against countermeasures
that the Government of Iran could employ when cutting off the
global internet.
(c) Form.—The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.