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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 2810 (Engrossed in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 1618

Sec. 1618. Enhancement of positioning, navigation, and timing capacity

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The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a plan to increase the positioning, navigation, and timing capacity of the Department of Defense to provide resilience to the positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities of the Department. Such plan shall— ensure that military Global Positioning System user equipment terminals have the capability to receive signals from the Galileo satellites of the European Union and the QZSS satellites of Japan, beginning with increment 2 of the acquisition of such terminals; include an assessment of the feasibility, benefits, and risks of military Global Positioning System user equipment terminals having the capability to receive foreign positioning, navigation, and timing signals (with respect to such signals described in the classified annex accompanying this Act), beginning with increment 2 of the acquisition of such terminals; include an assessment of options to use hosted payloads to provide redundancy for the Global Positioning System signal; ensure that the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, engages with relevant allies of the United States to— enable military Global Positioning System user equipment terminals to receive the positioning, navigation, and timing signals of such allies; and negotiate other potential agreements relating to the enhancement of positioning, navigation, and timing; include any other options the Secretary of Defense determines appropriate; and include an evaluation by the Director of National Intelligence of the benefits and risks, if any, of using foreign positioning, navigation, and timing signals.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall— submit to the congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate the plan under subsection (a); and submit to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate the evaluation described in paragraph
(6)of such subsection.
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