[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 119 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3704]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2250. Mr. SCHUMER (for Mr. Merkley) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 4049, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle D of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 355. REPORT ON NON-PERMISSIVE, GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM 
                   DENIED AIRFIELD CAPABILITIES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than February 1, 2021, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees a report assessing the ability of each 
     combatant command to conduct all-weather, day-night 
     operations at airfields of the Department of Defense in a 
     non-permissive, global positioning system denied environment.
       (b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a) 
     shall include, at a minimum, the following:
       (1) An assessment of current air traffic control and 
     landing systems at existing airfields and contingency 
     airfields of the Department.
       (2) An assessment of the ability of each combatant command 
     to conduct all-weather, day-night airfield flight operations 
     in a non-permissive, global positioning system denied 
     environment at existing and contingency airfields of the 
     Department, including aircraft tracking and precision 
     landing.
       (3) An assessment of the ability of each combatant command 
     to rapidly set up and conduct operations at alternate 
     airfields of the Department, including the ability to receive 
     and deploy forces in a non-permissive, global positioning 
     system denied environment.
       (4) A list of backup systems in place or pre-positioned to 
     be able to reconstitute operations after an attack.
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