Sec. 1645. Addressing serious deficiencies in electronic protection of systems that operate in the radio frequency spectrum
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The Secretary of Defense shall take such actions as the Secretary considers necessary and practicable— to establish requirements for and assign sufficient priority to ensuring electronic protection of sensor, navigation, and communications systems and subsystems against jamming, spoofing, and unintended interference from military systems; and to provide management oversight and supervision of the military departments to ensure electronic protection of military systems that emit and receive in radio frequencies against modern threats and interference from military systems operating in the same or adjacent radio frequency of Federal spectrum.
The Secretary shall require the military departments and combat support agencies to— develop and approve requirements, through the Joint Requirements Oversight Council as appropriate, within 270 days of the date of the enactment of this Act, for every radar, signals intelligence, navigation, and communications system and subsystem subject to the Global Force Management process to be able to withstand threat-realistic levels of jamming, spoofing, and unintended interference, which includes self-generated interference; test every system and subsystem described in paragraph
(1)at a test range that permits threat-realistic electronic warfare attacks against the system or subsystem by a red team or opposition force at least once every 4 years, with the first set of highest priority systems to be initially tested no later than fiscal year 2025; retrofit every system and subsystem described in paragraph
(1)that fails to meet electronic protection requirements during testing with electronic protection measures that can withstand threat-realistic jamming, spoofing, and unintended interference within 3 years from the date of the testing, and to retest such systems and subsystems within 4 years of the initial failed test; survey, identify, and test available technology that can be practically and affordably retro-fitted on the systems described in paragraph
(1)and which provides robust protection against threat-realistic jamming, spoofing, and unintended interference; and design and build electronic protection into ongoing and future development programs to withstand expected jamming and spoofing threats and unintended interference. The Secretary may establish a process for issuing waivers on a case-by-case basis for the testing requirement established in paragraph
(2)of subsection
(b)and for the retrofit requirement established in paragraph
(3)of such subsection. Each fiscal year, coinciding with the submission of the President’s budget request to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, through fiscal year 2030, the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation shall submit to the Electronic Warfare Executive Committee, the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a comprehensive annual report aggregating reporting from the military departments and combat support agencies that describes— the implementation of the requirements of this section; the systems subject to testing in the previous year and the results of such tests, including a description of the requirements for electronic protection established for the tested systems; and each waiver issued in the previous year with respect to such requirements, together with a detailed rationale for the waiver and a plan for addressing the basis for the waiver request.