Sec. 1613. Backup and complementary positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities of Global Positioning System
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The covered Secretaries shall jointly conduct a study to assess and identify the technology-neutral requirements to backup and complement the positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities of the Global Positioning System for national security and critical infrastructure. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the covered Secretaries shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the study under paragraph (1). Such report shall include— with respect to the Department of each covered Secretary, the identification of the respective requirements to backup and complement the positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities of the Global Positioning System for national security and critical infrastructure; an analysis of alternatives to meet such requirements, including, at a minimum— an analysis of the viability of a public-private partnership to establish a complementary positioning, navigation, and timing system; and an analysis of the viability of service level agreements to operate a complementary positioning, navigation, and timing system; and a plan and estimated costs, schedule, and system level technical considerations, including end user equipment and integration considerations, to meet such requirements.
Each covered Secretary shall designate a single senior official of the Department of the Secretary to act as the primary representative of such Department for purposes of conducting the study under subsection (a)(1). In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
The term covered Secretaries means the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Secretary of Homeland Security.