S.Amdt. 2025

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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