Sec. 219. Pilot programs for passive telecommunications infrastructure to facilitate installation 5G deployment
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Not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, each Secretary of a military department shall submit to the congressional defense committees a plan for a pilot program for the deployment of passive telecommunications infrastructure to facilitate the deployment of fifth-generation wireless telecommunications on military installations of the respective military department. Each plan submitted under paragraph
(1)by a Secretary of a military department shall include, with respect to such military department, the following: A list of military installations at which the pilot program will be carried out, including at least one military installation of the department. A description of authorities that will be used to execute the pilot program. A timeline for the implementation and duration of the pilot program. The number of telecommunication carriers that intend to use the passive telecommunications infrastructure to provide services at each of the military installations listed under subparagraph (A). An assessment of need for centralized processes and points of contacts to facilitate passive telecommunications infrastructure or similar telecommunications infrastructure. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, each Secretary of a military department shall establish a pilot program in accordance with the plan submitted by the Secretary under subsection (a)(1). Not later than 180 days after the date on which a Secretary of a military department commences a pilot program under subsection
(b)and not less frequently than once every 180 days thereafter until the completion of the pilot program, the Secretary of the military department shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the pilot program. Each report submitted under paragraph
(1)for a pilot program shall include the following: A description of the status of the pilot program at each location at which the pilot program is carried out. A description of the use of and services provided by telecommunications carriers of the passive telecommunications infrastructure at each military installation under the pilot program. Such additional information as the Secretary of the military department considers appropriate. In this section, the term passive telecommunications infrastructure means the passive components that enable services of commercial telecommunication carriers and Department of Defense private networks, including macro tower, small cell poles, distributed antenna systems, dark fiber, and assured power solutions.