Sec. 1607. ENHANCEMENT OF POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING CAPACITY

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## SEC. 1607 ENHANCEMENT OF POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING CAPACITY ###

(a)Plan The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Council on Oversight of the Department of Defense Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Enterprise established by section 2279b of title 10, United States Code, shall develop a plan to increase the positioning, navigation, and timing capacity of the Department of Defense to provide resilience to the positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities of the Department. Such plan shall— ####

(1)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; ####

(2)evaluate the risks and benefits with respect to ensuring the capability described in paragraph (1); ####

(3)include an assessment of the feasibility, benefits, and risks of 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; ####

(4)include an assessment of options to use hosted payloads to provide redundancy for the Global Positioning System signal; ####

(5)ensure that the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, engages with relevant allies of the United States to— #####

(A)enable military Global Positioning System user equipment terminals to receive the positioning, navigation, and timing signals of such allies; and #####

(B)negotiate other potential agreements relating to the enhancement of positioning, navigation, and timing; ####

(6)include any other options the Secretary of Defense determines appropriate and a determination by the Secretary regarding whether the plan should be implemented; and ####

(7)include an evaluation by the Director of National Intelligence of the benefits and risks of using non-allied positioning, navigation, and timing signals. ###

(b)Submission Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall— ####

(1)submit to the congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate the plan under subsection (a); and ####

(2)submit to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate the evaluation described in paragraph

(6)of such subsection.