[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4472-S4473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2929. Ms. HASSAN (for herself and Mr. Lankford) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2296, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 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 A of title XV, add the following:

     SEC. 15__. REPORT ON RISKS TO GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM AND 
                   ASSOCIATED POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING 
                   SERVICES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on 
     risks to the Global Positioning System and associated 
     positioning, navigation, and timing services.
       (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) A description of risks posed by a lack of access to the 
     Global Positioning System and associated positioning, 
     navigation, and timing services during a potential conflict 
     in which the United States is involved or in the case of an 
     attack on a United States ally.
       (2) A description of risks to United States allies from a 
     disruption of access to the Global Positioning System and 
     associated positioning, navigation, and timing services 
     provided by the United States.
       (3) An assessment of each of the following:
       (A) The capabilities of competitor countries, including the 
     People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Iran, and 
     the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to degrade or deny 
     United States access to the Global Positioning System and 
     associated positioning, navigation, and timing services 
     during a potential conflict with the United States or in the 
     case of an attack on a United States ally.
       (B) Current Department of Defense efforts to develop or 
     procure technology or systems to provide redundant global 
     positioning and positioning, navigation, and timing 
     capabilities, including space-based and terrestrial-based 
     (including quantum sensing technology) efforts.

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       (C) The ability of the Resilient Global Positioning System 
     (R-GPS) program of the Space Force to achieve, not later than 
     10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, full 
     capacity to provide Global Positioning System resilience to 
     existing United States satellites.
       (4) A framework for developing a full-scale terrestrial-
     based Global Positioning System redundancy system that could 
     be operational not later than 15 years after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
     annex.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
     ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee 
     on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select 
     Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland 
     Security of the House of Representatives.
       (2) United states ally.--The term ``United States ally'' 
     means--
       (A) a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization;
       (B) a major non-NATO ally (as defined in section 644(q) of 
     the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2403(q))); and
       (C) Taiwan.
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