Sec. 1661. Prohibition on availability of funds for certain purposes relating to the Global Positioning System
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Except as provided by subsection (b), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2021 or any subsequent fiscal year for the Department of Defense may be obligated or expended to retrofit any Global Positioning System device or system, or network that uses the Global Positioning System, in order to mitigate harmful interference from commercial terrestrial operations using the 1526–1536 megahertz band, the 1627.5–1637.5 megahertz band, or the 1646.5–1656.5 megahertz band. The prohibition in subsection
(a)shall not apply to any action taken by the Secretary of Defense relating to— conducting technical or information exchanges with the entity that operates the commercial terrestrial operations in the megahertz bands specified in such subsection; seeking compensation for harmful interference from such entity; or Global Positioning System receiver upgrades needed to address other resiliency requirements.