Sec. 1051. National security spectrum strategy

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Chapter 2 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce, develop and update from time to time a strategy on the availability and use of the electromagnetic spectrum to meet the national security requirements of the United States. The strategy shall cover each of the following periods (counting from the date of the issuance of the strategy or any update of the strategy):

Zero to five years. Five to ten years. Ten to thirty years. The strategy shall include the following (current as of the date of the issuance of the strategy or any update of the strategy): An inventory of the uses of the electromagnetic spectrum for national security purposes and other purposes. An estimate of the need for electromagnetic spectrum for national security and other purposes over each of the periods specified in subsection (b). An estimate of the capacity to share electromagnetic spectrum over each of the period specified in subsection

(b)among national security purposes and other purposes in accordance with the estimate developed under paragraph (2). Plans to continue to use blocks of electromagnetic spectrum, or to relocate to or commence use of blocks of electromagnetic spectrum, over each of the periods specified in subsection (b). An estimate of the costs of any plans to relocate to or commence use of blocks of electromagnetic spectrum, over each of the periods specified in subsection (b). Any other matters that the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce, considers appropriate for the strategy. The strategy shall be updated not less often than once every five years. The strategy, and any update of the strategy, shall be issued in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. . The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 2 of such title is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 119a. National security spectrum strategy. . The national security spectrum strategy required by section 119a of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall be developed not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.