Sec. 106. Backup global positioning system
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This section may be cited as the National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2016 . Subtitle VIII of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: Sec. 80701. Land-based complementary and backup system. Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall provide for the establishment, sustainment, and operation of a reliable land-based enhanced LORAN, or eLORAN, positioning, navigation, and timing system to provide a complement to and backup for the Global Positioning System (in this section referred to as GPS ) to ensure the availability of uncorrupted and nondegraded positioning, navigation, and timing signals for military and civilian users in the event that GPS signals are corrupted, degraded, unreliable, or otherwise unavailable.
The system established under subsection
(a)shall— be wireless; be terrestrial; provide wide-area coverage; deliver a precise, high-power 100 kilohertz signal; be synchronized with coordinated universal time; be resilient and extremely difficult to disrupt or degrade; be able to penetrate underground and inside buildings; be capable of ready deployment to remote locations; take full advantage of the infrastructure of the existing, unused Government long-range navigation system (commonly known as LORAN ); incorporate the expertise of the private sector with respect to development, building, and operation; work in concert with and complement any other similar positioning, navigation, and timing systems; be available for use by Federal and non-Federal government agencies for public purposes at no cost; and incorporate such other requirements determined necessary by the Commandant. Not later than 3 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Commandant, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall publish a request for proposals to solicit options for— eLORAN system architecture; and business models for the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of an eLORAN system in accordance with this section for a period of no less than 20 years. The request for proposals shall request options that— incorporate the expertise of the private sector; and allow for the expeditious installation, daily operation, and routine maintenance of an eLORAN system architecture. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall provide to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a plan to ensure that the system required under this section is fully operational not later than 3 years after such date of enactment. . The analysis for subtitle VIII of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to chapter 805 the following: 807. Position, Navigation, and Timing 80701 .