119-s2277

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2277 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2277

To require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report on risks to the 
 Global Positioning System and associated positioning, navigation, and 
 timing services.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 July 15, 2025

 Ms. Hassan (for herself and Mr. Lankford) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed 
 Services

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 A BILL

To require the Secretary of Defense to submit a report on risks to the 
 Global Positioning System and associated positioning, navigation, and 
 timing services.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``GPS Resiliency Report Act''.

SEC. 2. 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 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.
            (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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