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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 5515 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 1605

Sec. 1605. Enhancement of positioning, navigation, and timing capacity

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The Secretary of the Air Force shall ensure that military Global Positioning System user equipment terminals have the capability, including with appropriate mitigation efforts, to receive trusted 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. The Secretary of the Air Force shall ensure that military Global Positioning System user equipment terminals having the capability to receive non-allied positioning, navigation, and timing signals, beginning with increment 2 of the acquisition of such terminals, if the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Commander of the United States Strategic Command, determines that— the benefits of receiving such signals outweigh the risks; or such risks can be appropriately mitigated.
The Secretary of Defense, jointly with the Secretary of State, shall engage 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 as appropriate other potential agreements relating to the enhancement of positioning, navigation, and timing.
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