NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL BRIEFING ON POTENTIAL HARMFUL INTERFERENCE TO GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM.

SEC. 1613. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL BRIEFING ON POTENTIAL HARMFUL INTERFERENCE TO GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM. (a) Requirement.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the National Security Council, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission a briefing at the highest level of classification on the current assessment of the Department of Defense, as of the date of the briefing, regarding the potential for harmful interference to the Global Positioning System, mobile satellite services, or other tactical or strategic systems of the Department of Defense, from commercial terrestrial operations and mobile satellite services using the 1525-1559 megahertz band and the 1626.5-1660.5 megahertz band. (b) Matters Included.—The briefing under subsection (a) shall include— (1) potential operational impacts that have been studied within the megahertz bands specified in such subsection; and (2) impacts that could be mitigated, if any, including how such mitigations could be implemented. (c) Congressional Briefing.—Not later than seven days after the date on which the Secretary provides the briefing under subsection (a), the Secretary shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees such briefing. (d) Independent Technical Review.—The Secretary shall carry out subsections (a) and (c) regardless of whether the independent technical review conducted pursuant to section 1663 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283) has been completed. (e) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— (1) the congressional defense committees; and (2) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.