Pentagon must assess GPS vulnerability and plan 15-year backup system
S. 2277 — GPS Resiliency Report Act · Filed by Maggie Hassan (D-NH) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jul 15, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report within one year assessing vulnerabilities in the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) and related navigation services, including risks during conflict, competitor nations' ability to disrupt GPS, current DoD redundancy efforts, and a framework for building a terrestrial-based GPS backup system operational within 15 years. The report benefits national security and allied defense by identifying gaps in positioning/navigation resilience.
Why we flagged it
The bill is a straightforward congressional oversight mechanism requiring the Pentagon to assess and report on GPS infrastructure vulnerabilities and redundancy programs. It does not appropriate funds, create new programs, or grant exemptions—it mandates transparency and planning documentation.
What the text implies
- Report framework may implicitly commit DoD to developing terrestrial GPS redundancy within 15 years, creating future budget pressure and potential procurement obligations not explicitly funded by this bill.
- Assessment of competitor nations' GPS-denial capabilities may reveal classified vulnerabilities in current U.S. systems, with unclassified portions potentially signaling strategic weaknesses to adversaries.
- Inclusion of Taiwan as a 'U.S. ally' in the report's scope formalizes congressional recognition of Taiwan's defense relationship, which may have diplomatic implications beyond the bill's technical scope.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill creates transparency and accountability around a critical national-security infrastructure (GPS) by requiring the Pentagon to assess vulnerabilities and report to Congress. Citizens benefit from informed oversight of defense readiness and potential threats to navigation systems that underpin civilian and military operations.
Who stands to gain
- defense contractors specializing in space-based and terrestrial positioning systems
- quantum sensing technology developers
- Space Force R-GPS program contractors
Named in the bill
Secretary of Defense, U.S. Space Force, Global Positioning System (GPS), Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program, Senate Committee on Armed Services, House Committee on Armed Services, People's Republic of China, Russian Federation, Iran, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, NATO, Taiwan
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jul 15, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 15, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $480,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 1 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Maggie Hassan, the sponsor, reported $608,285 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Nextnav Inc. — $480,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,988 characters) on Sep 5, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-21.
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