[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 79 (Tuesday, May 7, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3559-S3560]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2025. Mr. YOUNG submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1911 proposed by Ms. Cantwell (for herself, Mr. Cruz, Ms. 
Duckworth, and Mr. Moran) to the bill H.R. 3935, to amend title 49, 
United States Code, to reauthorize and improve the Federal Aviation 
Administration and other civil aviation programs, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. GPS MONITORING PILOT PROGRAM.

       (a) Establishment.--The Administrator shall conduct a pilot 
     program to evaluate technologies to detect, measure, and 
     locate disrupting sources of interference to the GPS Standard 
     Positioning Service in order to mitigate the impacts on air 
     commerce and other related government and civilian functions 
     within the air traffic management ecosystem.
       (b) Evaluation of Technologies.--
       (1) Types of technologies.--The pilot program shall 
     evaluate commercially available technologies, as well as 
     technologies under development by the FAA, the Department of 
     Transportation, the Department of Defense, the Department of 
     Homeland Security, and the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration.
       (2) Scope.--The pilot program shall consider technologies 
     that have both physical electronics equipment and software 
     components, as well as technologies with only software 
     components.
       (c) Number of Evaluation Sites.--The pilot program shall 
     evaluate technologies for the purposes described in 
     subsection (a) at not less than 5, and not more than 7, 
     airports unless the Administrator determines that additional 
     evaluation sites are needed to carry out the pilot program.
       (d) Location of Evaluation Sites.--
       (1) In general.--The pilot program shall be conducted at 
     each of the following types of airports:
       (A) A primary airport in Class B airspace.
       (B) A primary airport in Class C airspace.
       (C) A primary airport in Class D airspace.
       (D) An airport in Class E airspace.
       (E) A Joint-Use Airport.
       (2) Documented interference.--In determining whether an 
     airport should be an evaluation site for the pilot program, 
     the Administrator shall consider airports described in 
     paragraph (1) that have experienced documented instances of 
     interference to the GPS Standard Positioning Service during 
     the 5-year period ending with the date of enactment of this 
     section.
       (e) Private Sector Participation.--The Administrator shall 
     collaborate with the private sector, including providers of 
     technology that can cost-effectively implement a capability 
     to potentially mitigate the impacts of GPS Standard 
     Positioning Service interference on air commerce.
       (f) Congressional Briefings.--Beginning 12 months after the 
     date of enactment of this section, and annually thereafter 
     until the date on which the report required by subsection (g) 
     is submitted, the Administrator shall provide the appropriate 
     committees of Congress with a briefing summarizing the status 
     of, and findings from, the pilot program.
       (g) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date on 
     which the pilot program is terminated, the Administrator 
     shall provide a report to the appropriate committees of 
     Congress on the results of the pilot program.

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       (h) GPS Standard Positioning Service Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``GPS Standard Positioning Service'' has 
     the meaning given such term in section 2281(d)(2) of title 
     10, United States Code.
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