Sec. 3. Report on untrusted telecommunications equipment or services in countries with collective defense agreement with United States
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for two years, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, shall submit to the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Foreign Relations and Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the prevalence of untrusted telecommunications equipment or services in the networks of United States allies and partners. The report under subsection
(a)shall enumerate each United States ally or partner with respect to which the United States has entered into a collective defense agreement and include, for each such country, the following: A description of the presence, or lack thereof, of untrusted telecommunications equipment or services in any 5G network of the country. If any untrusted telecommunications equipment or service is present in such a network— an enumeration of any mobile carriers that are using the untrusted telecommunications equipment or service present, and any mobile carriers that are not; a determination of whether the untrusted telecommunications equipment or service present is in the core or periphery of the network; and any plans by the United States ally or partner, or the individual mobile carrier, to rip and replace the untrusted telecommunications equipment or service present with a trusted telecommunications equipment or service. A description of any plans by network operators to use untrusted communications equipment or services in the deployment of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) technology, or any successor to such technology, or in future 6G networks.